Moses leads Jokerit past Dinamo. October 15 round-up
Jokerit’s convincing win over Dinamo Riga largely belonged to Steve Moses who posted 2+2 to help his team to a 5-2 win and condemn Dinamo to its sixth defeat in seven games in October.Moses saved the...
View ArticleHeikkila leaves Neftekhimik
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk has announced the departure from the club of head coach Kari Heikkila. The team is currently 13th in the Eastern Conference standings, after winning only four of fifteen games...
View ArticleLeonov replaced by Amur
Amur Khabarovsk has terminated the contract of head coach Yury Leonov, citing to the team’s disappointing start to the season. The Far East club has won only three of its seventeen games and is...
View ArticleSKA wins summit battle. October 16 round-up
The Army derby in St. Petersburg pitted the top two teams in the Western Conference together – and the summit clash did not disappoint as SKA edged CSKA 4-3.In a game rich in subtexts, Vyacheslav Bykov...
View ArticleMagnitka edges out old foe. October 17 round-up
A day after the top two in the West went head-to-head in a high-scoring battle, the biggest beasts of the East assembled for battle in Magnitogorsk.But Metallurg and Ak Bars produced a very different...
View ArticleUshenin banned for 1 game
In the 39th minute of Friday’s game in Vladivostok between Admiral and Dynamo Moscow, home forward Vladislav Ushenin was sent off for the remainder of the game after being judged guilty of spearing in...
View ArticleSolovyov leaves Severstal
Severstal has announced that head coach Nikolai Solovyov’s contract has been terminated by mutual agreement. Igor Petrov, who was in charge of the Cherepovets team before Solovyov’s appointment in May...
View ArticleMagnitka extends Keenan’s contract
Metallurg head coach Mike Keenan, who guided the Magnitogorsk men to victory in last season’s Gagarin Cup and won the Coach of the Year award in the process, has signed a deal extending his current...
View ArticleWinning return for Garnett. October 18 round-up
Traktor goalie Mike Garnett made his first appearance of the season after shaking off an injury – and found himself picking the puck out of his net after just 27 seconds of action at home to...
View ArticleKonkov banned for 1 game
The KHL Disciplinary Committee has investigated two incidents from Friday’s game in Novosibirsk between Sibir and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. In the final minute of regulation time, Yaroslavl forward Sergei...
View ArticleSKA keeps on winning. October 19 round-up
Eastern conference high flyer Avangard was the latest team to fall to SKA – and once again the Petersburg team proved its fighting qualities in a tense clash.Twice Avangard led, and twice SKA tied it...
View ArticleSentyurin banned for brawling
In the 39th minute of Sunday’s game in Novokuznetsk between Metallurg and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, home forward Sergei Sentyurin earned a major penalty (5 minutes) for fisticuffs after a brawl with...
View ArticlePlayers of the Week 7
To mark the end of the seventh week’s play of the seventh season of the Championship, The Kontinental Hockey League has named the best players of the week in four categories. – Best goaltender of the...
View ArticleMedvescak on the march. October 20 round-up
Medvescak made it three wins in a row thanks to a 4-2 success at Traktor, with the Zagreb team showing renewed confidence under the guidance of recently appointed head coach Dough Shedden.After a...
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