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Lander’s double puts Ak Bars on the brink of victory. Final, Game 4, Apr 20
CSKA Moscow 1 Ak Bars Kazan 3 (0-1, 1-1, 0-1)(Ak Bars leads the series 3-1) Ak Bars is just one step away from claiming its third Gagarin Cup following a 3-1 victory in Moscow. Two goals from Anton...
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“Nothing is decided yet”. Players about Game 4
Ak Bars moved to within one victory of lifting the Gagarin Cup thanks to a 3-1 success at CSKA on Friday. But after the game, players from both teams were adamant that this final series is far from...
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Ak Bars wins the Gagarin Cup. Final, Game 5, April 22
Ak Bars Kazan 1 CSKA Moscow 0 (0-0, 0-0, 1-0)(Ak Bars wins the Gagarin Cup Final 4-1) Ak Bars wrote its name into the history books with its third Gagarin Cup triumph. Fittingly, in this 10th...
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“It’s the best feeling in the world!”
After Ak Bars secured its Gagarin Cup triumph with Sunday’s 1-0 victory over CSKA, players from the Kazan team spoke about what it meant to them. Meanwhile, CSKA’s players reflected on what went wrong...
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Dmitry Chernyshenko: Congratulations to Ak Bars, a worthy winner
The 10th anniversary season of the Kontinental Hockey League reached its climax on Sunday in Kazan, when Ak Bars won its fourth and decisive victory in the final series, thus clinching a 4-1 win over...
View ArticleRefereeing Department on Cup-winning goal
Following Ak Bars forward Rob Klinkhammer’s goal in the 42nd minute of Sunday's match in Kazan – the goal which sealed victory for his team in the Gagarin Cup final series against CSKA - the visitors'...
View ArticleVorobyov runs the rule over World Championship prospects
Russia’s latest Euro Hockey Tour exploits ended in disappointment after the team lost all three games in the Czech Hockey Games. After Thursday’s 2-1 defeat to Sweden in Yaroslavl, the team flew to...
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A Picture of Success! Finest photos from Ak Bars night of triumph
Vladimir BezzubovThe final siren had barely sounded when a cloud of sticks, helmets, and gloves flew into the air, all accompanied by the deafening roar from a packed Tatneft Arena, while players and...
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Ak Bars makes history – the week in review
No prizes for guessing what last week’s top KHL story was all about – the Gagarin Cup is back in Kazan for a record third time. Away from the Grand Final, there was also some international action and a...
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Eduard Zankovets: “At Slovan, I get called to a different carpet!”
Eduard Zankovets, head coach of Slovan for most of the 2017-18 season, gave an interview to KHL.ru in which he spoke about his decision to coach in Slovakia, the reasons behind the team's...
View ArticleTeams and tournament structure for 2018-19 season confirmed
The League has officially approved and confirmed the structure for the XI season of the Kontinental Hockey League Championship and the teams for each Division and Conference. In the first stage of the...
View ArticleApril's finest: Johansson, Tokranov, Azevedo and Kravtsov
To mark the end of the seventh and final month's play of the tenth season of the Championship, the Kontinental Hockey League has named the best players of April in four categories.– Best goaltender was...
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45 KHL players in Eurotour finale
From the 26th to the 29th of April, Helsinki, Sodertalje and Stockholm host the final stage of the Eurotour, and the Russian national team, victorious at the 2018 Olympics and now under the guidance of...
View ArticleRussia suffers shoot-out loss
Russia began the final stage of this season’s Eurotour with a shoot-out loss in Finland as Ilya Vorobyov again ran the rule over prospective World Championship players. The teams tied 2-2 in Helsinki...
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Ak Bars. The 2018 champions, hero by hero
A champion team is not only an experienced head coach, a solid goaltender and a recognized sniper. The reason it is such a cliché to say, “Hockey is a team game,” is because it is true, and Ak Bars of...
View ArticleVictory for Vorobyov
Russia wrapped up its Euro Hockey Tour campaign with a 4-2 victory over the Czech Republic, snapping a run of five losses and handing acting head coach Ilya Vorobyov his first victory in charge of the...
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International preparations and hopes for the future – KHL week in review
Looking forward to the World Championship and looking at some future stars – who says the hockey season is done? Victory for Vorobyov After five straight defeats in the Eurotour, admittedly with...
View ArticleA winter classic and a playoff marathon – six of the best games of 2017-18
The League's first open-air encounter, its longest ever match, a minute of madness in Ufa, and another all-Army classic. KHL.ru looks back at half-a-dozen of the best games from the tenth season of the...
View ArticleMetsola to Ufa and other Mayday transfers
Salavat Yulaev has welcomed 29-year-old goaltender Juha Metsola, who has departed Amur Khabarovsk and signed up for two years with the Ufa team. There was further good news for Salavat Yulaev fans when...
View ArticleSexton to Avto, Zackrisson to Dynamo. May 2 transfer highlights
After five seasons with Neftekhimik, 31-year-old USA forward Dan Sexton, once of the Anaheim Ducks, has moved to Avtomobilist on a one-year deal.Neftekhimik has agreed one-year contracts with...
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