James Gazzale
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KHL Playoff Round Up
March 1st, 2012 (1) SKA vs. (8) CSKA SKA leads series 1-0 Ivan Nepryayev had a goal and two assists and Jakub Stepanak made 16 saves for SKA in their 4-1 win over rival CSKA in Game One of their best-of-seven series. Alexander Kucheryavenko opened the scoring for the home team about seven minutes into the game. He deflected a shot from the point...Time heals hostility of ’72 Summit Series
Moscow. 1972. The Canadians had just defeated the Soviet Union in the Summit Series, proving themselves, they believed, as the class of international hockey. Forty years later, legends of both countries came back to the Russian capital to celebrate the series and the game of hockey. “Some do not understand what this series meant to...
Pavel Bure, Russia win Summit Series rematch with Canada
February 25th, 2012 Pavel Bure scored three goals while four other Russians netted one goal each as Russia defeated Canada 7-5 at Megasport Arena in Moscow in the 40th anniversary rematch of the 1972 Summit Series. Dave McLlwain opened the scoring, his first of two, for Canada just over nine minutes into the game beating Russian goalkeeper Vladimir...Anticlimactic end to KHL regular season
The chance of a climactic end to the Kontinental Hockey League regular season was lost in the shuffle last night. Two teams, Spartak Moscow and Metallurg Novokuznetsk, needing wins to keep their playoff hopes alive came out on the losing end. In Kazakhstan visiting Barys, Spartak gave up the game-tying goal late in the final period....
