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PWHL Recap: PWHL Minnesota Tops PWHL Boston in Joint Debut
On Wednesday January 3rd, Minnesota defeated Boston 3-2. Boston outshot Minnesota 35-16 but Minnesota’s goalie Nicole Hensley was a brick wall stopping 33 of 35 shots. Taylor Heise got the scoring going at 3:58 in the first period and Sophia Kunin would add a 2nd goal 3 minutes and 56 seconds later with Brittyn Fleming… Read more
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KHL updates: HC Sochi drop tenth straight, SKA goaltenders Serebryakov and Moisevich share shutout for 6th win in 7 games
20-year-old HC Sochi netminder Nikita Tulinov certainly looked out of his depth in his first ever KHL start on Saturday, December 30th, 2023. He allowed 5 goals on 33 shots on net by Dinamo Minsk and was pulled in the final minutes, as he and replacement Maxim Tretyak collapsed and surrendered two quick goals (though… Read more
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KHL News: HC Sochi gets Matvei back, SKA keeps up winning ways in Army Derby, and some miscellaneous happenings in the league
This article is coming a bit late due to a busy schedule for me at the end of the year, but it will be comprehensive to make up for it. In on-ice matters for the primary teams of focus in this series, SKA Saint Petersburg defeated Army Derby rivals CSKA Moscow 2-0 in their most… Read more
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KHL updates: Mixed results for SKA, Sochi struggle but regain one piece and are close to getting back one more
To do a quick roundup of the last two SKA Saint Petersburg games, they dropped one in typical fashion to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday, December 23rd, outshooting Igor Larionov’s group by a sizable margin but playing poorly in not only the respect of finishing, but in preventing chances on the other end. They would… Read more
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KHL News: HC Sochi, SKA respective victims and beneficiaries of five-point nights… but a big return coming soon for Sochi
Both HC Sochi and SKA Saint Petersburg were in action on Thursday, December 21st. HC Sochi took on Avangard Omsk in an interconference matchup. Absent RW Matvei Michkov (Philadelphia, 7th overall, 2023 NHL Entry Draft) and C Marat Khusnutdinov (Minnesota, 37th overall, 2020) for this road trip, the team had already taken a beatdown in… Read more
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SKA Saint Petersburg 7-2 HC Sochi: SKA sinks their teeth into a weakened HC Sochi team
The Ice Palace in Saint Petersburg did not have much downtime during the KHL’s 2023-24 All-Star break, as it was the lively host of the major festivities. Mind you, that barn is huge as it can seat up to 21,500 people, and in correspondence with that, the event set an attendance record (c/o HockeyNewsHub on… Read more