KHL playoffs continue with East and West in action James Gazzale | March 2, 2012 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…
KHL Playoff Round Up James Gazzale | March 1, 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…
Time heals hostility of ’72 Summit Series James Gazzale | February 26, 2012 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…
Pavel Bure, Russia win Summit Series rematch with Canada James Gazzale | February 25, 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…
Anticlimactic end to KHL regular season James Gazzale | February 23, 2012 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…
Season of firsts for KHL’s Amur Khabarovsk James Gazzale | February 22, 2012 Tucked away in Russia’s Far East is the city of Khabarovsk. Touching the northern Chinese border, residents rarely feels temperatures above 0oF in the winter. For a city so cold,…
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