A convincing victory was celebrated in the Continental Hockey League (KHL) Jānis Kalniņš and Helsinki’s “Jokerit”, which defeated Moscow’s “Spartak” trained by Oleg Znarok and Harry Vitolins 7: 1.
“Jokerit” gained a 4: 0 advantage in the first two periods, when Veli-Mati Savinainen, Ēli Tolvanen, Miko Lehtonen and Brian O’Nīls were exactly. In the final third, Nikita Pivcakins scored the only goal for Spartak, but later Jonathan Pudass increased the lead for the Helsinki team, and Savinainen and Lehtonen scored their second goal in the match.
Kalnins repulsed 22 of 23 opponents’ shots in this fight.
Meanwhile, a Latvian striker Robert Bucharest In the game, he stood out with a realized post-match throw in the success of his Cherepovets “Severstal”. Cherepovets’ team beat Novosibirsk’s “Sibir” 3: 2.
Bucharest spent 14 minutes and five seconds on the field in that duel, during which he threw five times on the opponent’s goal, which was the best score in the team, blocked one opponent’s shot and lost in the only throw.
In the third series of post-match throws, the Latvian hockey player achieved 2: 0 in favor of the guests. Although “Severstal” won 3: 1 in the post-match throws, the victory “bull” was credited to Yegor Morozov, who threw the “goal” in the fifth series.
In another fight in the Moscow region “Vityaz” and Kaspars Daugavins with 0: 5 suffered an unconditional loss of Yaroslavl’s “Lokomotiv”. Daugaviņš was on the ice for 17 minutes, during which he did not take a single throw, but participated in two throws, losing both.
In another duel in Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo” with Sandi Ozoliņa Khabarovsk “Amur” gave up 1: 2 in the coaching corps. Meanwhile, in the Moscow club derby CSKA with 2: 0 was superior to “Dynamo”.
This season, 23 teams are participating in the KHL Championship – 11 Western and 12 Eastern conferences. In the regular championship, each team will play 60 games, after which the eight best clubs will enter the Gagarin Cup.
