Avangard Omsk are Gagarin Cup champions (4-2 vs CSKA)

[hansomreiste]

Not gonna lie, I feared I might never be able to create this thread, but here we are.

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[Caser]

 

[ozo]

First of all I'm happy for Hartley. He showed that he is a good "Euro hockey" coach when he first shaped my limited national team in a unit I can be proud of. Secondly, I want to praise Avangard decision makers and purse holders, for not making a knee jerk reaction after a subpar second season with Hartley in charge, it could have been so easy to sack him after early playoff exit.

Omsk is hockey city trough and trough, glad that their team was able to pull it off, hopefully they will soon be able to repeat the success while playing in Omsk itself.

 

[Caser]

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

Cool to see Avangard win it and get some revenge for 2019.

 

[vorky]

 

[Caser]

Drunk Tolchinsky has some meme potential I think:

 

[rohky]

The Team.

 

[Pasha71]

Always nice to see CSKA Moscow lose. During Soviet times, everyone hated them, because they would steal other teams' players by "drafting" them into "the army".

 

[vorky]

Looks like Avangard´s attedance will be just fine when coming home soon ...

 

[vorky]

 

[Caser]

Ok, Tolchinsky is officially the new Anisin:

 

[Czechboy]

How was Hrubec? Elite Euro goalie or product of elite team?

 

[SoundAndFury]

How was Hrubec? Elite Euro goalie or product of elite team?

He was not elite to the extent of Francouz, Sorokin and such but definitely held his own, very good.

 

[Val]

How was Hrubec? Elite Euro goalie or product of elite team?

I think both options
He looked like elite goalie

 

[Rossi Rat]

They just extended Nail Yakupov. Really wish Nail would’ve worked out in the NHL. Yak of all trades.

 

[SoundAndFury]

They just extended Nail Yakupov. Really wish Nail would’ve worked out in the NHL. Yak of all trades.

He is a KHL middle-6 forward at this point (even though he is in prime-age, in theory), A LOT of things had to go differently for him to succeed in the NHL...

 

[Caser]

Sadly it sounds like half of the roster won't be there next season.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Sadly it sounds like half of the roster won't be there next season.

Honestly, business as usual for most KHL teams. Also from key players, nobody has officially announced they are leaving. It was clear that Kostin and Kovi are going to leave all along, Boucher, Hrubec and Kaski might still get extended. I think the only player who's UFA and the loss would really sting is Semyonov.