KHL Season 2019/20

[Atas2000]

Is MacTavish fired yet?

Aaaaand yes

 

[SoundAndFury]

They have injuries and all but I feel the ice beneath Skudra's feet is indeed getting thinner. Performances like this in the middle of home stretch are unacceptable.

Also, hindsight and the continuous Magnitka's struggles bring to the attention the fact that Jandac was fired after losses to SKA, which is, well, SKA, and Vityaz who won against everybody else as well. So makes you wonder how much of it was actually coach's fault and how much deeper hole Magnitka dug for themselves by firing him that early. Only explanation I have is they were afraid somebody else nab Vorobyov and they really wanted him.

 

[aonb]

Any ideas what's going on with these guys?
- Filatov (still young and good when he wants to be good)
- Chistov (nice season in VHL, thought someone will give him a chance. I mean artyukhin is still playing hockey in khl)
- Frolov (finały retired?)

No updates on eliteprospects

 

[Atas2000]

Any ideas what's going on with these guys?
- Filatov (still young and good when he wants to be good)
- Chistov (nice season in VHL, thought someone will give him a chance. I mean artyukhin is still playing hockey in khl)
- Frolov (finały retired?)

No updates on eliteprospects

Frolov is still playing in Korea for all I know.

I don't know if Chistov is still in the VHL, but he will never get out there. Artyukhin has stone hands, but obviously never stoned.

Filatov... nobody wants him.

 

[cska78]

Vityaz are in first place in the west

oh no....I mean not for long

 

[Go Donbass]

oh no....I mean not for long

As of September 30th they lead the west by a point, with one fewer loss than CSKA and two games in hand on SKA. But I am under no illusions that Vityaz will hold that position at the end of the RS

 

[MaxV]

Zub apparently scored a beauty. I can't find video.

 

[Caser]

Zub apparently scored a beauty. I can't find video.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Little more than Riga's goalies being terrible. Which is by default this season.

 

[cska78]

Little more than Riga's goalies being terrible. Which is by default this season.

Is gudlevskis bad this year? or he scored a job in NA?

 

[SoundAndFury]

Is gudlevskis bad this year? or he scored a job in NA?

He has never had a good pro season in his career and this one was brutal. He's probably out of the KHL for good.

 

[hansomreiste]

Speaking of Riga's terrible goaltending, they signed Salak to a one-year contract.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Yeah, that's a great signing, I just wish they didn't try to go into the season with Gudlevskis + Tretiak duo. Everyone saw it's a disaster in the making. And now it might be too late.

 

[SoundAndFury]

On a sidenote, Riga looks like what Minsk was supposed to be and Minsk is what Riga was supposed to be. Surely it's by a large part thanks to late Minsk's additions (Pulkkinen, Prince, Yeryomenko) but they are looking really nice. Turns out you can have a pretty good team if half of it is quality imports

 

[su24]

The only imports Minsk has are 1 goalie, 1 defenseman and 4 forwards. Right, that's a half of the team. [Mod]
Also both Pare and Prince expressed desire to become a proud Belarusians.
Ellison probably won't play any more for them. He was terrible. They hasn't lost a game in regulation since Yeryomenko replaced him on the 1st pair alogside Gragniani.

 

[Go Donbass]

CSKA v Vityaz tomorrow. Strange to say, but game of the year so far.

 

[SoundAndFury]

The only imports Minsk has are 1 goalie, 1 defenseman and 4 forwards. Right, that's a half of the team. [Mod]
Also both Pare and Prince expressed desire to become a proud Belarusians.
Ellison probably won't play any more for them. He was terrible. They hasn't lost a game in regulation since Yeryomenko replaced him on the 1st pair alogside Gragniani.

Lighten up, it was an exaggeration. Although only partially, as impact-wise, at this moment, imports have scored 53 points and Belarussians - 37. Plus a starting goalie. So it's well above half and anyone who doesn't have his head in the sand understands imports are carrying Minsk which is what they are supposed to do anyway. But yes, as a "proud Belarussian" please feel extremely offended.

 

[su24]

Kazianin and Stepanov scored against Traktor. When such players (the 19 y.o. kid who didn't make the Belarus U-20 team at the last WJC and the washed out slow veteran) score against rich team like that you have to think that the league's level is going downhills too fast.
Prince and Pare were singing Belarusian anthem. I guess we can call them Princevich and Parevich now.

 

[ozo]

Kazianin and Stepanov scored against Traktor. When such players (the 19 y.o. kid who didn't make the Belarus U-20 team at the last WJC and the washed out slow veteran) score against rich team like that you have to think that the league's level is going downhills too fast.
Prince and Pare were singing Belarusian anthem. I guess we can call them Princevich and Parevich now.

Not sure what you are trying to say, but Woodcroft sure has fired up this team, they are looking really good today and in general. It looks like he is filtering though young players in order to see who can step up at this level - might be big for national team.

 

[Go Donbass]

Game of the year billing is living up to its name. Vityaz leading CSKA 2-1 after 2 periods. Entertaining game, good crowd and a decent showing by the Vityaz fans as well. Should be a great third period.

 

[Go Donbass]

Great finish to a really entertaining game, with Vityaz holding on for a 2-1 win over CSKA. With just under 3 minutes to play, CSKA went on the PP, but Vityaz did a really nice job of killing the penalty, and after weathering a bit of an attack by Red Army, were able to pull out the victory. The Knights have now beating SKA in St. Pete, Ak Bars at home and now Red Army in Moscow. This team is for real. Hopefully the can stay healthy and keep this rolling.

 

[cska78]

Great finish to a really entertaining game, with Vityaz holding on for a 2-1 win over CSKA. With just under 3 minutes to play, CSKA went on the PP, but Vityaz did a really nice job of killing the penalty, and after weathering a bit of an attack by Red Army, were able to pull out the victory. The Knights have now beating SKA in St. Pete, Ak Bars at home and now Red Army in Moscow. This team is for real. Hopefully the can stay healthy and keep this rolling.

Броски: 89-42 ; Броски в створ: 45-18
it's a joke, this happens

 

[jaco]

Vityaz is now 11-1-0... Just wow! And we're not rock bottom anymore. Definitely interesting season

 

[Go Donbass]

Броски: 89-42 ; Броски в створ: 45-18
it's a joke, this happens

Vityaz goalie definitely stood on his head today. He made several incredible saves. A lot of those shots came as a result of CSKA getting a lot more PP opportunities than Vityaz did. Shots on net are meaningless when the other team puts more of theirs in the net than you do.

 

[jaco]

Броски: 89-42 ; Броски в створ: 45-18
it's a joke, this happens

Could have happened also in in the past, but never did..