Admiral battles back to beat SKA. January 3 round-up
Admiral sank SKA for the second time this season, continuing the Petersburg team's unsteady recent run. It took a shoot-out to decide the outcome following a 4-4 tie in Vladivostok as the KHL season...
View ArticleSpartak slump continues. January 4 round-up
Spartak's sorry run continues with a sixth successive defeat, this time at the hands of struggling Dinamo Minsk. The Moscow team still attracted 4,500 fans to Sokolniki, despite its plight, and for a...
View ArticleYemeleyev shocks Ak Bars. January 5 round-up
Eastern Conference leader Ak Bars went down to a surprise defeat at home to Avtomobilist. A hat-trick from Igor Yemeleyev did the damage, lifting the Yekaterinburg team to a 3-1 success. The...
View ArticleLinglet stars against former club. January 6 round-up
Former Dinamo Minsk favorite Charles Linglet helped to undo his former team-mates during Medvescak’s 4-1 home win.Linglet, who played for the Belarusian team from 2011-2013 and even took Belarusian...
View ArticlePlayers of the Week 16: Ivannikov, Zubarev, Panarin & Sorokin
To mark the end of the sixteenth week’s play of the sixth season of the KHL Championship, the League has rewarded the best players of the week in four categories:– Best goaltender was Evgeny Ivannikov...
View ArticleVehanen joins Team West
Lev Prague’s experienced Finnish goaltender, Petri Vehanen, has been selected to play for Team West in Saturday’s KHL All-Star Game in Bratislava after Dynamo Moscow goalie Alexander Yeryomenko, the...
View ArticleNesterov, Pujacs banned for 2 games
Five incidents from three of Sunday’s Championship games have come under the scrutiny of the KHL Disciplinary Committee.In the 37th minute of the game in Novosibirsk between Sibir and Atlant Moscow...
View ArticleTen out of ten. January 7 round-up
Western Conference leader Dynamo Moscow made it 10 wins in a row thanks to a starring performance from Konstantin Volkov. He delivered 2+1 in a 3-2 win over Avtomobilist.Volkov’s first contribution was...
View ArticleTurning to youth to balance Spartak’s books
Around the arena, and daubed on the walls between the metro station and Spartak’s home, a simple slogan declares ‘Spartak Must Live!’ On the ice, however, there had been few signs of life – the Red and...
View ArticleDynamo defeated at last. January 9 round-up
Dynamo Moscow’s winning run came to an abrupt halt at home to lowly Ugra. Although the visitor gave up a 2-0 lead, Nikita Gusev kept his nerve to snatch a shoot-out win following a 2-2 tie. Dynamo thus...
View ArticleBratislava greets the stars
Moscow, Minsk, Saint Petersburg, Riga, Chelyabinsk ... Five cities in the vast KHL map. Five cities where the All-Star Game became a landmark event, in stadia packed to the rafters by fans who took...
View ArticleAll-Star Game accredited media alert!
On January 11th, 2014 in the Waldorf conference hall of the Double Tree Hilton Bratislava hotel the press-conference featuring Bratislava Mayor Milan Ftacnik, KHL President Alexander Medvedev Teams...
View ArticleJanus joins Team West
Lev Prague goaltender Petri Vehanen, recently called up to replace injured Dynamo Moscow goalie Alexander Yeryomenko in Saturday’s KHL All-Star Game, has himself fallen victim to injury. His place in...
View ArticleAll-Star autograph session
The Kontinental Hockey league has revealed another surprise for Bratislava’s legions of hockey fans. On Saturday afternoon the Slovnaft Arena entrance halls will host an autograph session featuring...
View ArticleSaved in the dying seconds. 2014 Legends Game
The two-day All-Star Game program got underway on Friday evening with the traditional veterans’ game, and while the names of the protagonists, Team Rusnak and Team Yakushev followed the tradition of...
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