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22 April 2019, 14:00 Weekly Round-up

CSKA’s crown, Sorokin’s success and a new attendance recorded
The Gagarin Cup dominates this week. CSKA is celebrating after winning the cup for the first time – and once again the KHL saw a record average attendance for postseason.
22 April 2019, 13:15 Best Players

Best Players of April: Metsola, Robinson, Grigorenko
The Kontinental Hockey League’s commission has determined the best player of the seventh month of play – April – in three categories.
20 April 2019, 17:00 Best Players

Finals’ finest: Sorokin, Robinson and Grigorenko
The Kontinental Hockey League’s commission has determined the best player of the playoffs’ final round in three categories.
20 April 2019, 13:10 News

2019 Gagarin Cup: attendance records
On Friday, CSKA Moscow defeated Avangard 3-2 in OT to secure its first Gagarin Cup. Throughout the whole 2019 playoffs, teams established new single-turn attendance records, and now it is possible to write also about the total numbers.
20 April 2019, 12:55 News

‘It was worth losing to understand what it means to win’
Amid the celebrations, CSKA’s players and head coach shared their thoughts on lifting the Gagarin Cup at last.
20 April 2019, 12:50 News

Dmitry Chernyshenko: ‘CSKA has been on a great journey’
KHL President Dmitry Chernyshenko gave his summary of the season and the progress made by CSKA and Avangard.
20 April 2019, 12:45 News

Nobody could have predicted we would get this far
Avangard’s players, head coach and president shared their thoughts on the season after the end of the Gagarin Cup final.
19 April 2019, 23:15 Daily Round-up

CSKA lifts the Gagarin Cup
The curse is lifted. CSKA Moscow became the first team in KHL history to top the table in the regular season and go on to win the Gagarin Cup. The Army Men collected their first ever Gagarin Cup and lifted Russia’s top hockey prize for the first time since the fall of the USSR. Along the way, Igor Nikitin’s team also recorded the first ever grand final sweep after clawing back a 0-2 deficit to win game four in overtime.
19 April 2019, 13:00 Transfers

Avtomobilist signs a 1-year deal with Sexton, Spartak extends Hudacek
Two import players stay in their clubs.
19 April 2019, 07:00 Preview

Match ball! CSKA enters Game 4 looking for a sweep! Preview for April 19th
Avangard is facing an almost insurmountable task. There’s little more they can do than take things step by step, starting with a home victory tonight. Anything else means their summer begins!
18 April 2019, 12:45 Legends of the KHL

Zinetula Bilyaletdinov: From assistant to champion coach
Last Thursday, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov left his role as the head coach of Ak Bars. KHL.ru reflects on the major milestones in his coaching career, which began in 1988.
17 April 2019, 22:30 Daily Round-up

Sorokin superb again as CSKA wins in Balashikha. April 17 playoffs
Another Ilya Sorokin shut-out – his fifth of the playoffs – and another decisive display by CSKA’s forwards in the third period saw the Army Men collect a third victory in this season’s Gagarin Cup final. No team has ever secured a sweep in a KHL grand final but on Friday night CSKA could do just that by winning in Balashikha to capture its first ever Gagarin Cup. With Avangard mustering just two goals in 180 minutes of this series so far, it’s hard to back against the Muscovites completing the triumph and demonstrating how much they learned from last season’s disappointment against Ak Bars.
17 April 2019, 07:00 Preview

CSKA takes commanding 2-0 lead over Avangard! Preview for April 17th
As the venues switch, Avangard will hope that home-ice advantage brings some form of fresh air after having only scored two goals thus far in the series. Finding a way to solve Sorokin will be a heavy task in a very critical Game 3!
16 April 2019, 15:30 News

Grigorenko writes history posting first-ever Gagarin Cup finals hat-trick
Scoring a hat-trick is quite a feat on its own. However, as the stakes rise, so do the goals’ value. Until last Saturday, the KHL never saw a hat-trick in the Gagarin Cup finals. Now, Grigorenko conquered that peak. KHL.ru remembers the most-memorable hat-tricks in the playoffs.
15 April 2019, 22:30 Daily Round-up

Late flurry sees CSKA win again. April 15 playoffs
15 April 2019, 15:00 Weekly Round-up

Gagarin Cup final underway – the KHL week in review
The culmination of the season is here – the 2019 Gagarin Cup final began Saturday in Moscow. The trophy itself hit the heights of Russia’s capital while, on the ice, Mikhail Grigorenko came out on top with the first ever hat-trick in a Gagarin Cup final game to put CSKA 1-0 up on Avangard. Away from the playoff action, two of Russia’s Olympic champions announced moves to the NHL.
15 April 2019, 07:00 Preview

CSKA underlined its role as favorite in Game 1! Preview for April 15th
When looking at 10 years of Gagarin Cup history, tonight’s Game 2 should go a long way in determining who will be this year’s champion. That means that Avangard is especially hard-pressed for a win!
14 April 2019, 15:15 News

Nikita Gusev’s Path to Stardom
Nikita Gusev is leaving the KHL as one of the League’s top talents and one of its top scorers. KHL.ru celebrates the forward’s career.
13 April 2019, 19:45 Daily Round-up

Grigorenko inspires CSKA. April 13 playoffs
Mikhail Grigorenko grabbed a hat-trick to give CSKA a winning start in this year’s Gagarin Cup final. His treble also moves him to 11 goals and a share in the race for top post-season goalscorer alongside Sergei Shumakov of Avangard. Shumakov himself was among the goals today, but was outgunned by Grigorenko’s infectious form.
13 April 2019, 12:30 Transfers

SKA terminates contracts with Gavrikov and Gusev
Two players leaves St. Petersburg.
13 April 2019, 07:00 Preview

The Gagarin Cup kicks things off with Game 1 in Moscow! Preview April 13
Gagarin Cup action takes flight tonight as the KHL’s top regular season team CSKA comes in off the tails of a seven game series to face an unexpected upstart finalist in Avangard Omsk.
12 April 2019, 21:00 Partners

Caught on camera: March in Canon’s KHL Photocontest
The battle for the Gagarin Cup isn’t just about the most sparkling hockey of the season – it’s also the perfect time to capture the defining images of the campaign, evoking the full range of emotions. The latest results from the KHL and Canon’s Photocontest are in: here are the 10 best shots from March, in two categories, ‘the game’ and ‘fans’.
12 April 2019, 14:50 Transfers

Rafikov stays in Yaroslavl, Kugryshev continues to play for Salavat
Contract extensions in Yaroslavl and Ufa.
12 April 2019, 12:00 News

Avangard and CSKA battle for the ultimate prize. Gagarin Cup finals preview
The West and East finals were both great series, with Avangard and CSKA deservingly moving on to the final chapter of the 2019 Gagarin Cup playoffs. In the finals, the two teams that showed the best hockey throughout the season will clash for the joy of the spectators. Both sides never won the Gagarin Cup title, thus we’ll have a new champion this year – the sixth in the League’s history.
11 April 2019, 14:30 News

CSKA gets to the second Gagarin Cup Finals in a row. West review
After a couple of early wins, it looked like CSKA could get to the Gagarin Cup finals playing on one leg. However, the next two games proved that the reality would be very different, and the Muscovites needed seven games to reach the finals for the second time in a row.
10 April 2019, 15:15 News

Avangard is back to the Gagarin Cup Finals. East Finals review
This series was expected to be long, and it surely didn’t disappoint those who were watching. The teams put on a show that lasted for six games – from one hand, however, it was too bad that the teams didn’t dispute the right to access the Gagarin Cup Finals in a decisive game seven.
10 April 2019, 14:50 Best Players

Conference Finals’ finest: Metsola, Nesterov and Hartikainen
The Kontinental Hockey League’s commission has determined the best player of the playoffs’ third round in three categories.
10 April 2019, 10:45 Transfers

Lokomotiv extends contract with Staffan Kronwall
Swede will spend his 8th season in Yaroslavl.
9 April 2019, 22:15 Daily Round-up

West: CSKA marches into second successive final. April 9 playoffs
CSKA is going back to the Gagarin Cup final! A hard-fought victory over SKA in game seven finally sent Igor Nikitin’s team through a showdown against Avangard and a chance to improve on last season’s loss against Ak Bars. The Muscovites are the fourth team to reach back-to-back Gagarin Cup finals and will be out to make it third time lucky after falling to Metallurg in 2016 as well as Ak Bars a year ago.
9 April 2019, 12:00 Legends of the KHL

Dimitrij Kotschnew: “The best years of my career were with Spartak”
KHL.ru continues its series about the most impactful players in KHL history. This time, the series visits Dimitrij Kotschnew, the German goalkeeper of Kazakh origin, who spent four highly successful seasons in the KHL.
9 April 2019, 10:00 Transfers

HC Sochi extends contract with Collins
The Black Sea club extended contracts with group of players.
9 April 2019, 07:00 Preview

Game 7 action – it doesn’t get better than this! Preview for April 9th
In another tight contest, SKA took its third game at home to push the series to an all-or-nothing, do-or-die Game 7.
8 April 2019, 22:30 Daily Round-up

East: Avangard goes to the Gagarin Cup final. April 8 round-up
Avangard booked its place in the Gagarin Cup final for the first time since 2012 – but it took an epic battle in Ufa to finish this series. After double overtime in game five, the teams went 20 minutes longer: Alexei Bondarev potted the winner in the 110th minute of a tense encounter in Bashkiria.
8 April 2019, 15:30 Weekly Round-up

The final countdown – the KHL week in review
The KHL’s Conference finals are on a knife-edge – and we could be set for a unique pair of game seven deciders. Here’s the lowdown on the latest action and the key men in this season’s match-ups.
8 April 2019, 14:00 News

Media Accreditation for the Gagarin Cup Final 2019
8 April 2019, 07:45 Preview

Furious OT Salavat win swings the series back to Ufa! Preview for April 8th
Avangard almost ended the series in Balashikha. Now it has to find a way to keep Salavat from pushing an all-decisive Game 7 with a Game 6 home victory.
7 April 2019, 20:30 Daily Round-up

West: Eyes down for Game 7. April 7 playoffs
It was a game that had everything: goals scored, a goal disallowed, a fight and a 10-minute video review before awarding the winner. And, at the end of it all, SKA’s success takes the Western Conference Final to game seven. On Tuesday these teams meet again in Moscow, for the last time. Someone, finally, has to take a place in the Gagarin Cup final.
7 April 2019, 07:00 Preview

After shutout statement by CSKA, series now on the line! Preview Apr 7
CSKA pitches a shutout in Moscow after two straight losses in St. Petersburg. They now head to the Baltic metropolis looking to put the nail in the coffin and advance to the Gagarin Cup!
6 April 2019, 22:30 Daily Round-up

East: Salavat Yulaev lives on. April 6 round-up
An overtime goal from Joonas Kemppainen – his 10th of the current playoffs – saw Salavat Yulaev extend its season and deny Avangard the chance to book its place in the Gagarin Cup final. Despite the absence of key defensemen Grigory Panin (injury) and Alexei Semyonov (suspension), Nikolai Tsulygin’s team left Balashikha with the win it needed to keep the Eastern Conference Final alive and send the action back to Ufa on Monday.
6 April 2019, 07:00 Preview

Avangard looks to make use of the match ball at home! Preview for April 6th
Avangard heads home with a decisive 3-1 lead in the series. For Salavat, only winning counts!
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