The weekend’s exhibition games
With the start of the season only a month away, a number of KHL clubs were involved in friendly and exhibition games over the weekend as they prepare for the sixth KHL Championship.Dynamo Moscow...
View ArticleSibir stars aid children’s charity
On Saturday, Sibir players Alexander Romanov, Ivan Lekomtsev, Oleg Gubin and Nikolai Lemtyugov joined head coach Dmitry Kvartalnov at an event organized by the Save a Life charity, which helps children...
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Get ready for the new season!
Just one month remains until the start of the sixth KHL Championship, and the official Kontinental Hockey League website has started the countdown to the new season by unveiling the official emblem of...
View ArticlePonikarovsky, Tikhonov sign for SKA
Alexei Ponikarovsky signed a two-year deal with SKA Saint Petersburg on Monday. The 33-year-old forward spent 12 seasons in the NHL, producing 179 goals and 199 assists in 739 games for the Toronto...
View ArticleAttention all media! Accreditation deadline expires
The deadline for submitting applications to receive media accreditation for the KHL 2013-14 season has expired. The list of successful applicants will be published on the official KHL website (for...
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Dmitry Afanasenkov: It was OK with Tortorella, but Heikkila’s plan just...
In 2004 he won the Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay Lightning, but last year he was plying his trade in the Belarusian Championship. Dmitry Afanasenkov is now searching for a team and hopes to return to the...
View ArticleVasily Tikhonov R.I.P.
Vasily Tikhonov, the former Dinamo Riga, CSKA, Ak Bars, Avangard, Espoo, Esset and San Jose Sharks coach, tragically died in Moscow early on Wednesday morning. Vasily was part of a formidable hockey...
View ArticleHockey is back in Yaroslavl
Loko youth team played at home for the first time since Sep. 7 tragedy
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Eid and ice. Double celebration in Kazakhstan capital
On Thursday, the Kazakh capital, Astana, marked the festival of Eid al-Fitr, the day when the entire Muslim world celebrates the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Over the preceding weeks, every devout...
View ArticleNigel Dawes: Getting to the playoffs is not enough
Barys demolished Amur 8-0 on the first day of Kazakhstan President’s Cup in Astana. Here is what Nigel Dawes, scorer of a hat-trick, had to say after such a bright start to the first tournament of 2013...
View ArticleKazakhstan President’s Cup. Day 1 highlights
Barys demolished Amur 8-0 on the first day of Kazakhstan President’s Cup in Astana with Nigel Dawes scoring three. In the day’s other game of this four-teams tournament, Vityaz defeated Yugra 3-1.
View ArticleJonas Andersson: “It’s getting better all the time”
Jonas Andersson joined the KHL ranks in 2009-10 season. Yugra Khanty Mansiysk is the fifth team in Swedish striker’s KHL career after Dinamo Minsk, Ak Bars Kazan, Atlant Moscow Region and Torpedo...
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Admiral sets sail as the Bears of Zagreb show their teeth
With less than a month until the start of the KHL’s sixth season, most clubs are beginning their pre-season campaigns. And, as well as the familiar round of mini-tournaments from Astana to Nizhny...
View ArticleSee the Prague Hockey Cup on KHL TV
The first ever preseason tournament in Prague to feature KHL clubs, the Prague Hockey Cup, gets underway at the city’s Tipsport Arena today. Joining hosts Lev in the Czech capital will be Salavat...
View ArticleList of accredited media for 2013-14 season
The Kontinental Hockey League has published the list of Moscow region media personnel granted accreditation for games in the 2013-14 KHL Championship. Accreditation cards will be available for...
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Alexei Morozov: someone at Ak Bars wanted me out
Alexei Morozov’s move to CSKA after nine years with Ak Bars Kazan was one of the biggest transfer stories of the summer. The forward, one of the most prolific scorers in Russian history, two-time...
View ArticleListen to Mike
During the first period of the final game of Chelyabinsk Region Governor Cup, Traktor vs Metallurg Magnitogorsk, we put a microphone on Magnitka head coach Mike Keenan. Traktor scored three unanswered...
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Admiral fans switched on for the first time
It’s a long way from Southern Ukraine to the Pacific coast, but as this week’s Donbass Tournament gets underway on the excitement is almost as intense in Vladivostok as it is in Donetsk itself. The...
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