A great victory for the champion: Striker scored 5 goals, defender made 5 assists

The first match of the Ukrainian hockey championship took place after the break in national team matches ended.

Current champion Kremenchuk is expected to easily cope with Storm, who has major problems in the squad.

Kremenchuk won 10:3 and the game was won by striker Gleb Krivoshapkin, who scored five goals and six points.

Captain Vitaly Lyalka scored a pair of goals and defender Denis Matusevich had five assists.

The team is in second place in the standings, but with an equal number of matches, the gap with Sokol has narrowed to one point.

The Storm are in fifth place.

Ukrainian Hockey Championship

Kremenchuk – Storm 10:3 (3:0, 3:2, 4:1)

Discs: 01:02 Lyalka (Matusevich, Andryushchenko) – 1:0, 05:05 Krivoshapkin (Gevorgyan, Poddubny) – 2:0, 15:14 Krivoshapkin – 3:0, 28:31 Serednitsky (Braga) – 4:0, 33:36 Ponomarev – 4:1, 35:49 Krivoshapkin (Braga, Matusevich) – 5:1, 38:10 Kruglyakov (Ratushny) – 5:2, 38:30 Bezugly (Serednitsky, Matusevich) – 6:2, 49:50 Lyalka (Bezugly, Matusevich) – 7:2, 51:50 Andryushchenko (Matusevich, Krivoshapkin) – 8:2, 57:11 Ratushny – 8:3, 58:44 Krivoshapkin – 9:3, 59:55 Krivoshapkin (Gevorgyan) – 10:3