Each week, the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) salutes their Players of the Week. The top forward, defenseman, goaltender, and rookie are selected based on their statistics and performance, as determined by the KHL Statistics and Information Bureau. This week, the league recognizes: Forward of the Week Sergei Mozyakin, Metallurg Magnitogorsk The KHL’s leading scorer, Mozyakin ...
The KHL All-Star Game is slated for the weekend of January 12-13 in Chelyabinsk, home of the KHL’s Traktor. The starting lineups for the annual event were selected via fan balloting, and the results are in. Metallurg Magnitogorsk forward Evgeni Malkin received the most votes (40,569). He was followed by Pavel Datsyuk of CSKA Moscow (33,731), Alexander ...
Each week, the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) salutes their Players of the Week. The top forward, defenseman, goaltender, and rookie are selected based on their statistics and performance, as determined by the KHL Statistics and Information Bureau. This week, the league recognizes: Forward of the Week Danis Zaripov of Ak Bars Kazan In three games, ...
Dear NHL Lockout Diary, Today is Day 7 of the NHL lockout. The past few days have been ugly for fans that still hold out hope for a resolution soon. Sadly, I no longer consider myself one of those people. In the past week, Stanley C. Panther was let go by Florida, the NHL cancelled ...
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeny Malkin will play in the KHL this season should there be a NHL work stoppage. Talking to Russian Sport-Express newspaper, Malkin said he would return to his hometown of Magnitogorsk and suit up for Metallurg, debunking rumors that he would sign with CSKA Moscow. “It’s my home town,” Malkin told Sport-Express. ...
The name Alexei Emelin has been but a whisper in the Bell Centre rafters since the Montreal Canadiens selected the young Russian with the 84th overall selection in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. For seven long years, Habs’ fans have waited patiently for the 6’2, 220lb blue-liner, whose reputation for thunderous open-ice hits has ...
Top-seeded Traktor has joined Avangard in the second round of the KHL’s Eastern Conference playoffs after ousting Yugra in five games. Meanwhile, Ak Bars and Barys both failed to end their series, paving the way for a pivotal Game Six with Salavat Yulaev and Metallurg, respectively. Here is a recap of Wednesday’s Game Five. Eastern ...
Alessandro Seren Rosso – Staff writer And after six, spectacular, hard fought and tight matches, we are at the last act of the first KHL finals. And interestingly enough, the Gagarin Cup will be awarded in the Cosmonaut Day, celebrated by Russians every April 12th as that was the day of Yuri Gagarin’s fly in ...
Alessandro Seren Rosso – Staff writer After eight months of hard battle, the KHL’s inaugural season has arrived to the final chapter. Twenty-four teams fought in the regular season, sixteen of them walked through the playoffs and Ak Bars Kazan and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl are the last two franchises who now will contend the first Gagarin ...
Alessandro Seren Rosso – Staff writer As the last quarterfinals match is finished, the KHL semifinals picture is complete: Ak Bars Kazan vs Dynamo Moscow Lokomotiv Yaroslavl vs Metallurg Magnitogorsk To pick a winner is very hard in both series: Ak Bars (White Leopards) just beaten the surprise of this year’s playoffs after a dramatic ...
