Last dash for outsiders as KHL regular season comes to a close
Published: 20 February, 2009, 17:16
With the inaugural Continental Hockey League regular season due to finish later this month, a lot of teams are going for broke in their bid for a top 16 place.
Seventeenth placed MVD are no exception. The Tver side were up against European finalists Metallurg Magnitogorsk on the road and seriously upset the hosts, with a 4-1 win, with Metallurg unable to get on the scoreboard until the final period.
A second period onslaught from Torpedo ensured the Nizhny Novgorod side would take all the points in Chekhov.
Dynamo Moscow's dreadful recent run shows no sign of halting – the men from the capital recorded their third straight defeat at the hands of the visiting Neftekhimik.
Meanwhile Dynamo's cross-town rivals, Spartak, seem to have found out their last 16 opponents
With the KHL play-offs just around the corner every game for Spartak is vital.
After they beat Mettalurg Novokuznetsk, 2-1, the Muscovites almost secured their 9th place berth, and will now avoid facing city-rivals Dynamo or CSKA in the knock-out stages. SKA St. Petersburg are now their most probable opponents in the play-offs.
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Bandy: ice hockey with a difference hits Red SquareJanuary 8 is the day of a truly Russian game – bandy. To mark the occasion an all-star bandy match has taken place on Moscow’s Red Square, where Dynamo Moscow took on a rest-of-the-world team. |
24.02.2009, 05:12
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European clubs to join KHLNew teams will join the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in 2010/11 season says league’s President Aleksandr Medvedev, Russia’s Sport Express newspaper reports. |
