GDT: September 19 | Ygr-Bar | Avt-Avg | CSKA-AkB | DRg-DM | Slv-Vit | Lev-Tor

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KHL 2013/2014 Regular Season

September 19 Game Day

Highlights:
KHL.RU; Youtube.com

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Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk vs Barys Astana

September 19, 2013
17:00 MSK | 15:00 CET

Arena-Yugra (5500), Khanty-Mansiysk

Streams:
KHL.RU; onhockey.ru

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Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg vs Avangard Omsk

September 19, 2013
17:00 MSK | 15:00 CET

Uralets Ice Palace (5570), Yekaterinburg

Streams:
KHL.RU; onhockey.ru

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CSKA Moscow vs Ak Bars Kazan

September 19, 2013
19:30 MSK | 17:30 CET

CSKA Ice Palace (5600), Moscow

Streams:
KHL.RU; onhockey.ru

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Dinamo Riga vs Dynamo Moscow

September 19, 2013
20:30 MSK | 18:30 CET

Arena Riga (10 300), Riga

Streams:
KHL.RU; onhockey.ru

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Slovan Bratislava vs Vityaz Podolsk

September 19, 2013
21:00 MSK | 19:00 CET

Slovnaft Arena (10450), Bratislava

Streams:
KHL.RU; onhockey.ru

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Lev Prague vs Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod

September 19, 2013
21:00 MSK | 19:00 CET

Tipsport Arena (13160), Prague

Streams:
KHL.RU; onhockey.ru​

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[Faterson]

6 games, all look very interesting to me.

 

[pecheq]

Let me predict again.

3 points wins: Avtomobilist, CSKA, Slovan, Lev
2 points wins: Yugra, Dynamo Moscow

 

[LIOVA]

Today two good games. Dinamo Riga vs Dynamo Moscow, CSKA Moscow vs Ak Bars Kazan

 

[LIOVA]

Slovan the awful beginning of a season!

 

[Faterson]

I have a bad feeling and predict another loss for Slovan, perhaps with 1 point. I think Slovan will get out of the crisis eventually, just not yet today.

Don't know if you all heard the bad news: Slovan's 1st line center Bližňák is out for a few weeks with a knee injury. That's for a team that got shut out in 3 out of 5 games so far. Essentially, 4 Slovan forwards will be "junior" players. Last season, 2 rookie forwards used to be the norm. Now, it's an entire attacking line + 1, 2 more rookies on other lines. They are not bad players, they are all very promising, but still very young and inexperienced at the KHL level. It will take time.

I hope Riga will win in the battle of 2 Dinamos. I hope Torpedo can do the same in Prague they did in Bratislava. Will there be more than 2,400 viewers in Prague this time? I also predict Yugra, Avangard & CSKA wins.

 

[penepi]

I have a bad feeling and predict another loss for Slovan, perhaps with 1 point. I think Slovan will get out of the crisis eventually, just not yet today.

Don't know if you all heard the bad news: Slovan's 1st line center Bližňák is out for a few weeks with a knee injury. That's for a team that got shut out in 3 out of 5 games so far. Essentially, 4 Slovan forwards will be "junior" players. Last season, 2 rookie forwards used to be the norm. Now, it's an entire attacking line + 1, 2 more rookies on other lines. They are not bad players, they are all very promising, but still very young and inexperienced at the KHL level. It will take time.

I hope Riga will win in the battle of 2 Dinamos. I hope Torpedo can do the same in Prague they did in Bratislava. Will there be more than 2,400 viewers in Prague this time? I also predict Yugra, Avangard & CSKA wins.

We have already learnt how to play also with truncated roster, we showed it several times last season. We have to win today - "..we still believee..."

 

[jaco]

If I had some money (which, alas, I don't), I'd bet on a Slovan win in regulation (sooner or later it has to happen....).

 

[Faterson]

Should I bet on your behalf, jaco? Could be fun... Just a small amount, just for fun.

 

[Faterson]

PS: Just made a random online check... quite decent odds on Slovan regulation win, 1.7... still, I have a bad feeling and would bet at the 4.4 odds for a regulation tie. (Viťaz regulation win is at 3.7.)

 

[ozo]

Barys is being Barys. 3:0 up in ten minutes.

 

[jaco]

Should I bet on your behalf, jaco? Could be fun... Just a small amount, just for fun.

Let's do it this way: You bet a small amount (what is that? 25,- €?) on YOUR behalf, I'll use my influences in Italy (after all, the Pope lives here....) and if we lose, you keep the loss, if we win, I'll get the buck.... Is that ok for you?

 

[kiluj]

I usually bet against my team. If my team wins - well, I'm happy. If loses - I win some money.

 

[Faterson]

Hehe... I guess our definitions of "small amounts" differ, Jaco. By "small amount", I meant something symbolic, like €1, just for fun. Because I never bet, I have no idea if such small bets are even possible. For €25, you can buy lunches for an entire week in Slovakia, and that is not negligible. Just in case Slovan wins in regulation tonight, do you think I'm willing to skip lunch breaks for an entire week?

 

[Faterson]

I usually bet against my team. If my team wins - well, I'm happy. If loses - I win some money.

Yes... that was my idea here, too. I prefer to expect a bad result, only to be pleasantly surprised, instead of the other way round. Of course, sometimes I have a good feeling before a game, but there are few grounds to feel optimistic about Slovan right now, and the 1st line center Bližňák will now be missing, which is an even worse omen.

By the way, penepi, Mihálik is once again in the line-up (although only as defenseman #7), instead of Brejčák. How do you explain that?

 

[jaco]

Hehe... I guess our definitions of "small amounts" differ, Jaco. By "small amount", I meant something symbolic, like €1, just for fun. Because I never bet, I have no idea if such small bets are even possible. For €25, you can buy lunches for an entire week in Slovakia, and that is not negligible. Just in case Slovan wins in regulation tonight, do you think I'm willing to skip lunch breaks for an entire week?

So I won't get rich this time around? But, seriously, I'm still gonna do my part (call up the Pope and try to convince him..), last time (first win for Atlant), it worked

 

[jaco]

Rakhmanov, 1992, 3rd goal in 6 games for Barys this season

 

[Faterson]

(call up the Pope and try to convince him..), last time (first win for Atlant), it worked

I know... blessed are the poor... and Slovan is the poorest in the KHL right now. But salvation is not always instantaneous. Gotta work hard to deserve it. (Let's not even get into those theological disputes.)

 

[ult]

Avto just ran over Avangard.

 

[ozo]

Avto just ran over Avangard.

Classic pun

 

[Faterson]

Říha is not yet with the team, right? Hopefully, his stay in Omsk will be longer than Kris Letang's stay in St. Petersburg last season.

 

[cska78]

so far so good!

 

[vorky]

Říha is not yet with the team, right? Hopefully, his stay in Omsk will be longer than Kris Letang's stay in St. Petersburg last season.

visa/documents issues... it takes a few days????

 

[Faterson]

It's good he's not there yet... yet another Avangard debacle...

 

[Faterson]

Wow! What a refereeing disaster in Bratislava... They gave a Slovan defenseman a match penalty, but mistook player no. 8 for player no. 6, so the player who got penalised wasn't even on the ice! Slovan did not protest, because Sersen (8) is a more important defenseman for them than Mojžíš (6).

The stands in Prague look very empty tonight, too.

Staňa for CSKA looks to be back in his shape from last season after that nightmare first night in Zagreb, eh? Every day, it seems more and more as if that 1-7 loss may have been caused by CSKA's travel issues for the game in Zagreb.