The 2014 Junior Hockey League "Challenge Cup" was the MHL All-Star Game, held on February 1, 2014, in Nizhny Novgorod at the ice of the Nagorny Sports and Entertainment Complex. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and the first held in Nizhny Novgorod Region.[1]

Course of the game

The game featured the traditional rivals — the West and East teams, made up of the country's best young players. The West team won 5:3 (0:1, 2:1, 3:1).[1]

Vorobyov opened the scoring (assist: Leshchenko). Dyuryagin, with help from Safaraleev, tied it in the 22nd minute (1:1). Varfolomeev, on a pass from Polyakov, put the West ahead (2:1), after which Timirev on the power play restored the tie (2:2). In the third period, Lebedev on the power play gave the West the lead (3:2), and Polata, assisted by Timirev, tied the score again (3:3). Dvorzhak on the power play put the West ahead once more (3:4), and Timirev, in the 60th minute with an empty net, put the final stamp on the game — 3:5.[1]

The game drew about 5,500 spectators. As part of the Challenge Cup events, the traditional coaching seminar was held under the leadership of Vladimir Yurzinov Sr.; in 2014 it was devoted to the Swedish program for developing young hockey players, "The Road to the Elite".[4][1]

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At the tournament's opening ceremony, spectators saw the new traveling trophy for the first time: it rode onto the ice in a Volga convertible, accompanied by two young women. The ceremonial puck drop was performed by Valery Shantsev, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region, Alexander Medvedev, president of the KHL and chairman of the MHL board, and a young student of a Nizhny Novgorod hockey school. Before the game, spectators were greeted by actors from the TV series "Molodyozhka".[3][3][3]

Sources

  1. tatar-inform.ru — At the opening ceremony of the tournament, spectators saw the new challenge trophy for the first time: it was driven onto the ice in a Volga convertible, accompanied by two young women. The starting in (archive)
  2. hctraktor.org — As part of the Challenge Cup events, the traditional coaching seminar was held under the leadership of Vladimir Yurzinov Sr., devoted in 2014 to the Swedish program (archive)
  1. NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" — The fifth MHL Challenge Cup in Nizhny Novgorod ended with a victory for the Western team. Nizhny Novgorod News (archive)
  2. championat.com — SberID Authorization