Traktor vs HC MVD

HC MVD Moscow Oblast (Nickname - Miliciaman or Mushora [musə'ra]) is part of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. So the pic above is quite appropriate for the case. Here in Russia most people hate them as militia is fu.. shit which uses its power for damned purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality.
Well to attemt to bring this back towards some kind of hockey focus I have to say that it's not Mushora but Traktor who must be feeling absolutely sick at the moment and it's going to be a tall order to pick themselves up from the heartache of Thursday evening. 1:6 from Loko is a bitter pill to swallow:

Last matches Traktor:
Date Home - Away Score
10.29. Traktor - Lokomotiv   1:6 (1:4,0:2,0:0)
10.27. Traktor - Spartak M   3:3 (0:1,2:0,1:2, 0:0)
10.25. Traktor - Neftekhimik 4:6 (1:1,1:3,2:2)
10.22. Lada T  - Traktor     3:2 (2:0,1:0,0:2)
10.20. Ak Bars - Traktor     3:2 (0:0,0:0,2:2, 1:0)

Today they face one more tough assignment against conquerors from the west. MVD are riding high at the moment after a decent run from the season start. They have snatched some distinguished records due to their agressive style of play, which also includes a 4-2 victory over recent Traktor offenders Loko. Yeah, I should say MVD is quite an experienced squad led by Head coach Oleg Znarok (Latvia nation team manager at the same time), goaler Alexei Kudashov, defenders Filip Novak, Martin Strbak and forward Matt Ellison.

Head-to-head:
Date    Home - Away  Score
12.26.08 HC MVD - Traktor 4:2 (0:1,3:0,1:1)
12.12.08 Traktor - HC MVD 2:6 (1:1,1:2,0:3)
11.30.08 HC MVD - Traktor 5:2 (0:0,1:2,4:0)
10.14.08 Traktor - HC MVD 3:1 (1:0,1:0,1:1)
02.23.08 HC MVD - Traktor 5:2 (1:0,2:1,2:1)
12.02.07 Traktor - HC MVD 2:5 (0:0,2:2,0:3)
09.20.07 HC MVD - Traktor 1:2 (0:1,1:1,0:0)
02.21.07 Traktor - HC MVD 2:1 (0:0,0:1,1:0, 1:0)
11.01.06 Traktor - HC MVD 4:7 (2:4,1:0,1:3)
09.12.06 HC MVD - Traktor 3:2 (1:0,1:2,1:0)

I'd say it would be difficult for Traktor to argue with the MVD today. They just provide a different dynamic and the best strategy for this game would be to back MVD with (0) at 2.200..


result: 0:7 (0:2,0:2,0:3)

SIBIR SACKS SEMYONOV

"WTF!" - he think.

Vladimir Semyonov was sacked from the post of Sibir head coach on Thursday, 29 Oct 2009 to become the sixth dismissed specialist during month and a half in KHL championship.

"I can only guess who initiated my dismissal", said Semyonov. "General manager Alexandr Kantsurov told me about the club’s decision. The club’s management was not satisfied with the team’s results".

"Maybe we could have sealed three or four points more than we did, however the team began improving in latest matches".

"Frankly speaking I didn’t want to believe that I would be dismissed".

"This decision has been made because of absence of necessary result", said Sibir general manager Alexandr Kantsurov.

"The team’s result was unsatisfactory after 19 matches".

"We have several candidates to the post of new head coach, who will be set to squeeze to playoffs. I think we stand good chances for that".

Another day in the KHL, another two head coaches get kicked

Yesterday led to resignation of two more head coaches in the KHL. This brings the turnover of coaches up to six, or 25%, and we're still only 1/3 into the season.

Last night, Atlant's CEO Andrei Berebko and sports director Ravil Iskhakov last night announced that Fedor Kanareikin has resigned as headcoach and his assistant Valeri Bragin would assume the post. The announcement followed Atlant's 0-6 defeat to Salavat on Monday. The resignation of Kanareikin, who has coached Atlant for two years, does not come as a surprise. Atlant has struggled ever since the pre-season, and the expensive team reinforcements with Zherdev, Novotny, Gerber and Semin hasn't had any effect. The team has lost six of its nine latest games and firing Kanareikin seemed to be the only option left. Kanareikin became the head coach of Atlant on 4 January 2008. During his time as head coach, Atlant won 71 games and lost 33.

Meanwhile, Sibir Novosibirsk also kicked their head coach, Vladimir Semoyonov. Sibir has 20 points in 19 games and is well outside the playoff-zone. Sibir's fans have wanted to get rid of Semenov for a long time, and in the end the patience of Sibir's management simply fizzled out. Sibir will now be looking for a new coach. There's not a whole lot of options left, but in the meantime Andrei Tarasenko will act as a working head coach.

Meanwhile. There will be more coaches to go in the coming weeks. Dinamo Riga's Julius Šupler could very well be the next in line.

One coach that is relatively safe is Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, the coach of KHL Champion, Ak Bars. Ak Bars is in deep crisis and is off to its worst start ever in the RSL/KHL. After yesterday's 2-5 loss to Metallurg Novokuznetsk, Ak Bars dropped out of the playoff zone and is now ranked 17th in a combined KHL table. Bilyaletdinov, however, still has a tremendous amount of reputation in stock, and Ak Bars would probably rather prefer to kick the whole squad of players before they kick Bilyaletdinov. Swedish goaltender, Mikael Tellqvist could very well become the next player to be released from the team. The speculation about Tellqvist has been going on for some time--ever since the preseason actually. It didn't take long before Tellqvist lost his position as starting goaltender, a position that went to the young and promising, Stanislav Galimov, but since Galimov has also struggled recently, Ak Bars is looking for a replacement for Tellqvist. Here, Ak Bars has zoomed in on Lukko Rauma's Petri Vehanen. Vehanen has had tremendous success in the Finnish SM-Liiga with a GAA of 1.45 and SVS% of 94.9 in 13 games for table leader, Lukko. Vehanen's agent, Krister Kaukinen has confirmed that something is in the making.

Taken from internationalhockey

Dynamo Minsk fired Hanlon

Dynamo Minsk management, after lost KHL game against Amur Khabarovsk (1:4), has decided to fire all coaches including Dynamo Minsk head coach Glen Hanlon (at pic), informing Belarus hockey page.

The new head coach to Belarus team could be Alexander Andrievskiy, who coached Gomel team in Belarus Extraliga.

Belarus hockey federation’s president Vladimir Naumov introduced about this decision at press conference after the game: “Dynamo Minsk doesn’t has character and I see that these coaches can’t give a character to this team. I can see that Dynamo Minsk can play much better. We have offered contract to coach Andrievskiy and tomorrow we will have a team meeting and then we will make a decision for future.”

Glen Hanlon is the third head coach in Kontinental hockey league who has been fired in this season.

"Spartak is fast team"

One of the leaders of SKA Saint-Petersburg Alexey Yashin talks about lost games to Dynamo Moscow and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Yashin also talks about victory against HK MVD Moscow region and tomorrow’s game versus principal opponent Spartak Moscow.

“It’s great that we won MVD. But now we will have very hard game versus Spartak Moscow. This game is tomorrow, that’s why we need to think about Spartak right now. Usually we are trying to dispose on every game. Without any reference from result we are trying to play our game as good as possible. Last game we won. That was great game for Rober Esche, he didn’t let any goal. I think because of him we could win MVD.

Your road games started in Vilnius, Lithuania. How it was physical to resist these road games?

It’s always very hard. But these road games is a part from calendar, all teams have one calendar. That’s way we need to get maximum from road games.

After lost game against Dynamo Moscow your teammates told that SKA lost this game, not Dynamo won. But what happened in Yaroslavl?

Maybe Lokomotiv Yaroslavl had a little bit more luck. We shot a goal to ourselves, we hadn’t our game. We made chances but we didn’t use them. This result is not fair. But there are always such games. No doubt that it was a good game for Lokomotiv also. In any case it is the past, but we need to prepare to future and next games. I hope that we will win the next game against Spartak Moscow.

Game against Dynamo Moscow was principal for your line mate Petr Cajanek (last year Cajanek played in Dynamo). Game against Lokomotiv was principal also for you?

For me the main thing is three points in table. It is no matter against what team you play; the main thing is to get points. I played in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl last two years and I have very good memories about this time. Yaroslavl is a hockey town. I want to thank to Yaroslavl about these two seasons. Now I’m in SKA Saint-Petersburg and I need to do all what I can for SKA. We will fight for gold medals.

Did you like Lokomotiv in this game?

My opinion is that they played great defensively. But they had some mistakes also. It seems that there we can see class of the team, when it plays great without mistakes.

You want to see game without mistakes for SKA. How it is working no in your team?

It depends from the game. I think that we need to be better. There is very many points which we could make better. I think that these games in regular season are for correcting mistakes and finding our game.

Your line with Cajanek and Sushinskiy plays great hockey. Do you like to play tohether?

I like to play with Cajanek and Sushinskiy very much, because these guys are very talented. They feel the situation and partners. That is the main reason why we understand each other. I hope that we will continue to play this way. Sometimes it is better, but sometimes it is worse. But the main thing is that everyone knows what he needs to do. We work together and talk together. It is a real pleasure to play together with Cajanek and Sushinskiy.

And if someone from your line has bad day that means that others have the same. Like in game against Dynamo Moscow?

It’s always so. But it is good that in our team we have other good lines also. Every line can score a winning goal. All strong teams have not only one good line, but plenty of them. I think that it is the main reason why we play so good in this season. Everyone from our team can win the game, goalies also. I hope that we will continue to win in KHL.

Barry Smith before the start of the KHL season said that he hopes to the great start. Did SKA make maximum points in the beginning?

It is very hard to say. It isn’t about physical condition. It is coincidence of many elements. Sure there is many points where we need to work hard, and we have some reserve. It is very hard to say how we play right now, it is our maximum or not. I think that potential for SKA Saint-Petersburg is great. Our game will be better and better.

SKA game versus Spartak is principal, what we need to wait from this game?

I think that this game will be very interesting. Spartak Moscow is very fast skating team and they are playing very good in area close to the net. For us it is very important to play good defensively.

Your friend and defender of your team Darius Kasparaitis now is in USA. Have you called with him? Very many fans are waiting for news about him…

I understand. But I don’t know how much can I speak. It would be great if he would be here, in the team. He is very important player for SKA mood. I hope that he will return on ice very fast.


Taken from khl-news

Pinnacle Sports Review

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