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Torpedo hits the road against Amur, a team that hasn’t had much luck this season, hoping to take its third straight. Later in the evening, Kunlun looks to do something it never has, namely defeat Dynamo Moscow. The boys from the capital are one of the hottest teams in the league. Not looking good for Kunlun.

Jokerit is undefeated in nine straight and now welcomes a red hot Ak Bars. Fireworks are promised! Meanwhile, Metallurg looks for its 8th straight win against a recently successful Barys team while Salavat is home again and confident it will beat somewhat flailing Avtomobilist side.

Not a team in action today was successful in its latest outing. Leading things in this lack of success is Kunlun, which hosts Admiral today looking to avoid its 6th straight defeat. The chances are actually good and not just because the boys from the east coast have lost three straight themselves, but rather because Admiral has had a real hard time defeating Kunlun on the road the past few years.

Jokerit is at home looking for its 9th straight win, and it welcomes a Sochi team that it has beaten six times in a row at home. You can’t ask for a better scenario. Is win number 9 basically a sure thing?

It’s not been the start the club wanted and expected, but the boys from Kazan have already started to get things back on track. With a win today against a continually struggling Admiral team, they’ll have taken four in a row.

There should be fireworks tonight in the Baltic region when SKA looks for its 4th straight win against the very hot Salavat, which is nonetheless coming off its first loss of the season. About the same thing can be said for the match-up in Chelyabinsk, when Traktor hosts CSKA, also winners of 3 straight. However, Traktor is also coming off a seldom loss.

No-one could’ve seen this coming when Jokerit kicked off the season with two straight losses, but after seven straight wins, the Finns are flying. They’re on the road tonight against Torpedo, which is hungry for a win after three straight losses. Dunno about you, but we’d say Jokerit has the upper hand here.

Severstal may be at home, but they welcome a Salavat team that is looking for its 8th straight win. Going to be a tough one for the home team, loser of two in a row. At the same time, undefeated Dynamo Moscow will look to chalk up its 7th straight win and a home ice victory over Dinamo Riga looks like a likely scenario.

They’re at home against a Dinamo Minsk team that has been a bit cold in recent games. Can Salavat make it a lucky number seven to start off the season?

Yes, indeed, the 2-game losing streak to start the season is now a thing of the past. Avtomobilist has won four straight and now begins a 4-game homestand by welcoming Avangard, losers of three straight. Things should get real hot in Yekaterinburg.

Sibir has been a bit cold and now they’ll be hosting one of the league’s hottest teams. Will the stars be aligned properly for Dynamo Moscow?

Out east, Amur will be hosting Severstal looking to chalk up its first win of the season. At home for another two games, it’s time to get things moving in a positive direction against a team batting a little less than .500 thus far, otherwise it could be the sixth straight loss for Amur.

Winless Admiral kicks off the gameday hosting undefeated Dynamo Moscow, a game in which Vadim Shipachyov will look to become the all-time KHL leader in assists. Back west, a hot Jokerit starts a 3-game homestand against a tough Lokomotiv team while a thus far hapless Vityaz hopes to get on track against a Traktor team that is coming in off a strong start to the season.

It’s a short gameday in KHL, Sibir or Severstal will have a second victory of the season tonight as well as Metallurg and Neftekhimik are looking for the fourth success.

The gameday will start at 10 am of Moscow time when Dynamo will play in Khabarovsk against Amur. Home team cannot beat the opponent for more than 11 years. Dinamo Riga will play first game after losing to Traktor (1-6), they will face Lokomotiv who has lost three in a row.

The home team wants its fifth straight, the road team its fourth. Whoever gets it has set a new club record for best ever start. Still, gotta think Salavat has the upper hand.

Metallurg welcomes a weary and beaten down Admiral club, which concludes an unsuccessful road trip while Severstal hosts a Traktor club that has a good handful of players on some very attractive scoring streaks.

They’ve each got three wins in three games. They’re both red hot. And now Salavat is home for the first time while Spartak is finally on the road. Who’ve you got?

CSKA is on a bit of a role, and this isn’t the right time for Ak Bars to be hosting them, and yet here we are. Should be a doozy!

When Lokomotiv hosts Dinamo Minsk today, it will do so for the first time in 10 years and with heavy hearts. The tragic day in history back in 2011 left almost no corner of the hockey world untouched and cost the lives of the team, the staff, and all in the flight crew – people that are missed to this very day. Their spirits are to be honored as the team marches on into competition with their memory never forgotten.

In Helsinki Jokerit will play the first home of the 2021-2022 season, Dinamo Riga, Amur and Admiral will look for a first win of the season as well.

It’s day #5 of KHL regular season. Dinamo Minsk or Severstal will earn the first win of the season. Metallurg and Salavat Yulaev will try to continue their scoring pace, while Ak Bars will look to get revenge after yesterday’s loss against Kunlun Red Star.

CSKA can surely smell blood as Riga heads to Moscow on the tails of a loss while the same can be said for Avangard, which will host Admiral, coming in on a long distance trip. Ak Bars hopes to send Kunlun back to Mytishchi with an 0-2 record while Lokomotiv hosts SKA for the day’s biggest battle.

Once this game day is over, every team in the league (just about) will have finally gotten into its first bit of action for the 2021-2022 season.

The first real gameday of the 2021-2022 season takes flight and a number of teams are entering the fray with much different expectations. Both Kunlun and Dinamo Riga want to write a much different story than the one written last season. Jokerit and Lokomotiv will be looking to stay consistent and edge their way into the league’s top 7. Ak Bars and Ska are naturally here with Gagarin Cup ambitions, and they’ll be looking to strut their stuff right off the bat .

A tradition that feels as old as time is renewed as last season’s Gagarin Cup finalists face off to kick off the 2021-2022 season.

Oh goodness, who saw THAT coming? CSKA was shut out at home in a Game 5 that has their back up against the wall, especially now that Avangard has taken two in a row.

It was a wild Game 4 that saw CSKA jump out to a 2-0 lead only to need a goal in the very last second of the game to push things to overtime. There, Avangard managed to score in the 66th minute of play and now the teams head back to Moscow with this series coming down to a Best-of-Three.

Goals are now proving hard to come by in this series. A late tally in the game’s 49th minute by playoff top scorer Maxim Shalunov ended Avangard’s hopes of gaining an upper hand and means that the team from Omsk has now lost four home games in a row.

It was a game CSKA really couldn’t afford to lose, and they kept Avangard off the board entirely in registering a Game 2 3-0 victory. And boy, was it just what the doctor ordered.

Avangard has truly done all its winning on the road recently and Game 1 was no exception. Having been off a few days, it took a while for CSKA to get up and running. Now the team needs to buck Avangard’s current road-winning ways and even this series up before heading to Balashikha.

Thanks to a thrilling Game 7 overtime victory, Avangard has knocked off the mighty Ak Bars Kazan and will now play for the cup in what is a rematch of the 2019 Gagarin Cup finals. Coming out of a series in which the road team won every game, the men from Omsk will have no problem kicking off this series in Moscow.

It’s now all or nothing as Ak Bars managed to once again make use of the road-team-advantage in this series to send Avangard back to Kazan without having gained a tally since overtime of Game 5.

Now Avangard is on the clock to win a home game of its own.

All of a sudden, the pressure seems to be on CSKA, which is coming off a 7-game series anyways. Are they starting to wear out?

Ak Bars took its second straight 2-1 victory in Balashikha, thus tying the series at two games apiece. The action heads back to Kazan today with Ak Bars looking to be the first team in this series to actually win on home ice.

A tight 2-1 lead turned into a sigh of relief when SKA scored an empty net goal in the 60th minute to make it 3-1 and collect their first victory. It’s still a complete uphill battle as the scene flips back to Moscow, where CSKA will surely want to put the nail in the coffin.

Boucher’s march to a scoring record in consecutive games was broken as Ak Bars managed to sneak out a tight 2-1 victory. Avangard is once again at home but could see an unwanted switch in momentum if it heads back to Kazan with this series tied.

They finally got on the scoreboard, but the 5-2 loss at home was a demoralizing defeat that now requires SKA to make some history if it has any intention of playing for the Gagarin Cup.

This was not part of the script for Ak Bars. Avangard winning both games in Kazan simply wasn’t what was supposed to happen and yet, this is where we’re at. Two tight games now see Avangard heading home looking to push things to match ball.