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HC Sochi vs. Severstal Cherepovets: Making History for the Wrong Reasons
One word: Ouch. While HC Sochi got off to a good start in their rematch of sorts against Severstal Cherepovets on Saturday, October 7th, it was all downhill from there. The team struck first with a little under 7 minutes remaining, as Artur Tyanulin buried one past Severstal G Dmitri Shugayev on a rebound from… Read more
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SKA Saint Petersburg vs. HC CSKA Moscow: A Tumultuous Road Victory in an Important Debut
Friday, October 6th was a crucial day in the 2023-24 KHL season, not just for the team that emerged from the CSKA Ice Palace in the nation’s capital victorious that day, but perhaps for the whole league. While the first game for SKA Saint Petersburg with new goaltender Nikita Serebryakov got off to an ignominious… Read more
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MCLA Trailblazers: Hockey Returns to North Adams
After 21 years, it’s nice to say that there will be college hockey in the town of North Adams, Massachusetts this winter. The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Trailblazers, or MCLA for short, will be competing in the MASCAC with an almost entirely freshman team under first-year head coach Jeremiah Ketts. Ketts is coming… Read more
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HC Sochi vs. Severstal Cherepovets: Guess Who Scored a Big Goal Again?
Continuing their impressive recent form in the first few months of the 2023-24 KHL season, HC Sochi found themselves in the win column in a home game against Severstal Cherepovets on Thursday, October 5th, emerging with a 4-3 victory. Not everything about Sochi’s performance was outstanding through the first couple of frames, as they did… Read more
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SKA Saint Petersburg updates: Some big news in the personnel department and a defeat in Belarus to Dinamo Minsk
SKA Saint Petersburg went into the Belarusian capital seeking a bounce back victory after their road defeat to HC Sochi, which was owed largely to the performance of Philadelphia Flyers prospect (#7 overall, 2023 NHL Entry Draft) and loaned player from their roster Matvei Michkov (1 goal, 2 assists) and his line. Unfortunately, they were… Read more
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HC Sochi 5-4 SKA Saint Petersburg: The most poetic game and result one could ask for
We know how the stage was set for this game. On Monday, October 2nd, 2023, HC Sochi returned home from a brief three-game road trip which saw them defeat Spartak Moscow 3-2 and fall in devastating fashion to two-time defending Gagarin Cup/three-time consecutive finalists CSKA Moscow 7-1 (continuing the long-lasting trend of CSKA defeating Sochi,… Read more