Yushkevich takes over Severstal
HC Severstal has officially informed the League that Czech specialist Vaclav Sykora has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the Cherepovets club. Dmitry Yushkevich has taken charge of team...
View ArticlePlayers of the Week 10: Salak, Larsen, Redlihs and Vovchenko
To mark the end of the tenth week’s play of the eighth season of the Championship, the Kontinental Hockey League has named the best players of the week in four categories. – Best goaltender was...
View ArticleCanadians head for Ak Bars, Amur
Ak Bars has signed Canadian defenseman Ryan Wilson until the end of the season on a unilateral contract. The 28-year-old has 238 NHL games for the Colorado Avalanche under his belt, but was hampered...
View ArticleSakhalin hosts first ever Russian-Chinese tournament
A small but nonetheless historic event took place last week in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, capital city of Russia’s Far Eastern Sakhalin Region. The occasion was an international children's tournament,...
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Sergei Fedorov, Hall of Famer!
A highly important ceremony took place in Toronto on Monday at which five more stars of hockey’s glorious past were inducted into the Hall of Fame, and one of those receiving the coveted plaque was...
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Winning debut for Voynov. November 10 round-up
SKA St. Petersburg 3 Dynamo Moscow 2Slava Voynov, a Stanley Cup winning defenseman with the LA Kings, made his KHL debut after completing his move to SKA – and contributed an assist in his team’s win...
View ArticleSvedberg banned for 1 game
The KHL Disciplinary Committee has investigated an incident from Tuesday’s game in Kazan between Ak Bars and Salavat Yulaev. At the end of the first period, Ufa goaltender Niklas Svedberg received a...
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Day of shut-outs. November 12 round-up
It was a memorable day for goalies in the KHL, with seven netminders posting shut-outs in Thursdays 14 games.Sorokin silences LokomotivLokomotiv Yaroslavl 0 CSKA Moscow 2Loko goalie Alexei Murygin has...
View ArticleKazionov, Koksharov banned for 1 game
Two incidents from Thursday’s games in the Championship have attracted the attention of the KHL Disciplinary Committee. In the 14th minute of HC Sochi’s home game against Severstal, Sochi forward...
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Torpedo rallies to sink Vityaz. November 14 round-up
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 3Vityaz Podolsk 1Torpedo has been quietly picking up points in the Western Conference and Saturday’s success against Vityaz puts Peteris Skudra’s team just three points off the...
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Magnitka on the rise as Loko’s slump continues. November 15 round-up
Metallurg Magnitogorsk 4 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 1It’s not long since Loko was celebrating a 13-game winning streak and leading the KHL table. But Sunday’s heavy loss in Magnitogorsk was the Railwaymen’s...
View ArticlePlayers of the Week 11: Gelashvili, Savchenko, Daugavins and Varfolomeyev
To mark the end of the eleventh week’s play of the eighth season of the Championship, the Kontinental Hockey League has named the best players of the week in four categories.– Best goaltender was...
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Taylor torments CSKA. November 16 round-up
Medvescak Zagreb 1 (OT) CSKA Moscow 0Medvescak goalie Danny Taylor was the star of the show as his team withstood a CSKA barrage before snatching an unlikely win.The Army Men responded to Saturday’s...
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Sibir continues to stumble. November 17 round-up
Admiral Vladivostok 4 Sibir Novosibirsk 2Whatever happened during the international break clearly did little to help Sibir – the Eastern Conference leader has yet to win since returning to action and...
View ArticleMironov, Glumac banned for 1 game
Two players faced an enforced absence from the ice following incidents in Monday’s games in the Championship. In the 39th minute of the game in Nizhny Novgorod between Torpedo and Dynamo Moscow,...
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