VHL General Discussion

[Go Donbass]

How many fans do they get?

I didn't see an official total, but there weren't many people there.

 

[Rigafan]

I didn't see an official total, but there weren't many people there.

The 'official' from VHL was 1,100 for Kunlun today. Not so bad for a farm team?

Tseng Tou had 3,645 which is very respectable!

 

[Go Donbass]

The 'official' from VHL was 1,100 for Kunlun today. Not so bad for a farm team?

Tseng Tou had 3,645 which is very respectable!

That 3600 might have been tickets sold (gave away), but there's no way there was that many people in the arena. The 1100 is possible since I couldn't see the other side of the arena, but I doubt that total as well. I would say under a thousand for sure.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Tseng-Tou losing 6th in a row. Seems like kind of a pointless team at this point.

 

[Rigafan]

Tseng-Tou losing 6th in a row. Seems like kind of a pointless team at this point.

More relevant than Riga at the moment

 

[SoundAndFury]

Well the season is going more or less as expected with St. Petersburg teams and Neftyanik having relatively easy time in the PO as well. Kurgan is the dark horse being built around their excellent goaltending with Zagidulin being KHL ready over a year ago as his Kunlun loan stint has shown.

The interesting thing, Kuznya released Kasutin in the middle of series against Dinamo. Pretty funny.

 

[ozo]

The interesting thing, Kuznya released Kasutin in the middle of series against Dinamo. Pretty funny.

His playoff stats do look abysmal.

 

[SoundAndFury]

His playoff stats do look abysmal.

Yeah, he was bad indeed but how bad do you have to be for a team to not even wait a few days until the season ends out of plain decency. I find it kinda funny. It's like "just get out of my sight asap".

 

[Caser]

6th OT and the 5th all-time longest hockey game here as SKA-Neva beat Dynamo in the game of the final series.

 

[SoundAndFury]

It's kinda funny to see SKA really trying to win something, they sent Rykov, Maltsev, Syomin, Altybarmakyan and Kvartalnov to play in the MHL finals and day later called them back to the VHL. It's like those guys are working 2 jobs.

 

[Caser]

With Dynamo St.Petersburg winning the title, talks have started again about them possibly going to the KHL.

 

[hansomreiste]

I thought KHL wanted more teams from other countries and fewer from Russia...

 

[Alessandro Seren Rosso]

I thought KHL wanted more teams from other countries and fewer from Russia...

This is not entirely true, they are seeking to have more financially-wealthy teams. I'm all for a new team in Peter, but only if it's not only Moscow and Leningrad of course

 

[vorky]

This is not entirely true, they are seeking to have more financially-wealthy teams. I'm all for a new team in Peter, but only if it's not only Moscow and Leningrad of course

If Dynamo replace Vityaz, I see no problem.

 

[Alessandro Seren Rosso]

Sochi signed an agreement with HK Ryazan, former partner of Lokomotiv. I wonder if finally Lokomotiv will create their own team in the VHL.

 

[Toro2017]

Hey, as the season is over, is there any new info on that Silk Road Cup plan? Or will there be any new teams from Far-East?

 

[ozo]

Hey, as the season is over, is there any new info on that Silk Road Cup plan? Or will there be any new teams from Far-East?

No developments so far. I think the only surefire addition is HK Tambov that will join from Russian third tier competition.

 

[cska78]

Any idea why Valentenko couldn't land a contract in the KHL?

 

[SoundAndFury]

Lada just crushed Saryarka 4-0 and definitely are early favorites for the cup. Half of their roster is borderline KHL players/VHL stars like Skrynnik, Metlyuk, Kostromitin, Berdyukov, Andryushchenko, Chistov, Ozolins, Mastryukov, Konstantin Mayorov, Pankov... And the other is young guys from Loko system. Definitely seems like a mix that works and even though a few teams had a very good start to their season Lada is one I expect to keep it up.

For all the people crying about the KHL contraption, it was really good and needed for the VHL.

 

[cska78]

This game got Heikilla (sp?) fired

Kuznya, Lada, some KHL farm-teams depending their play off exit.

 

[Milos Krasic]

Belarus could really use Andryuschenko

 

[Milos Krasic]

Kiss of death. Andryushchenko got released for Skachkov.

 

[ozo]

Kiss of death. Andryushchenko got released for Skachkov.

Would be interesting to see him back in Belarus league to compare how good/bad he is next to local league stars. He has been off radar for so long.

 

[cska78]

Would be interesting to see him back in Belarus league to compare how good/bad he is next to local league stars. He has been off radar for so long.

You might get this chance, Lada just bought him out, wondering why...Probably signed Skachkov and don't want to pay him anymore, his stats are ok

 

[SoundAndFury]

It was a pretty weird move. When a team is playing this well one would think "don't fix what's not broken", wouldn't he? I even thought about the idea that maybe Andryushchenko himself had an offer from Minsk and wanted out but none of this makes much sense, honestly. Skachkov wasn't dominant in the Belarus league either last year (3rd in scoring on Yunost in the PO) so I don't know, this doesn't make sense from Lada's perspective. There has to be more to this from the Andryushchenko's side.