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 ...
Within the NHL, an almost decade-long battle among elite players continues. Every season, these players collect titles and raise trophies and their fans, as well as a few detractors, are rarely surprised. Make no mistake, these athletes are happy to get the hardware, but this toe-to-toe combat involves an even bigger goal. Pavel Datsyuk, Alexander ...
In its first three seasons, the Kontinental Hockey league had two champions, Ak Bars Kazan (2008-09, 2009-10) and Salavat Yulaev Ufa (2010-11). With the former knocking out the latter in the first round of this years playoffs, the chances of either team winning again were cut in half. Now, after Continental Cup winner Traktor dispatched ...
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 ...
The Kontinental Hockey League playoffs continued last night, showcasing all eight match-ups. The puck was dropped on the Eastern Conference competition while the West sides played Game Two. Eastern Conference (1) Traktor vs. (8) Yugra Traktor lead series 1-0 Despite playing without top goal scorer Evgeny Kuznetsov, Traktor proved to be too much for playoff ...
The match-ups for the upcoming Kontinental Hockey League playoffs are set. Teams played just 54 regular season games, down from 56 in previous years because of the Yaroslavl plane tragedy last October. The playoff teams were decided with several games remaining, the only thing that remained uncertain was the seeding. Those seedings have been finalized ...
Evgeny Kuznetsov, a very highly touted prospect in the Washington Capitals organization received a horrible looking leg injury. It’s hard to see what happened in the video but judging by his expression it’s nothing good. He fell into the boards awkwardly and jammed his leg. If you have any other info on this please share ...
Just as the title suggests, this is a list, in no particular order, of prospects that could prove to be valuable commodities leading up to the NHL trade deadline. GMs of teams that emerge as buyers might have to dangle such prospects to land the perceived difference making players they desire in their quest for ...
In the second intallment of The Prospect Panel at The Hockey Writers, our three prospect panelists Shawn Reznik, David O’Connor and Andrew Sykes, answer questions relating to NHL prospects playing in the CHL, NCAA, AHL or Europe. This week the panel looks at who the best defenceman is for the upcoming NHL Draft, who the favourite to win ...
Welcome to the latest of many weekly columns on The Hockey Writers: The Prospect Panel. Each week, three of our prospect writers will be answering your questions, as well as some that many others that people will be wanting to have answers to very soon. In The Prospect Panel there will be discussions of all ...
