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Подготовили Андрей ВДОВИН и Илья ТРИСВЯТСКИЙ
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Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Boston” – “Buffalo” – 7:4, “Rangers” – “Vancouver” – 3:6 – Kalinin “R” (0+1) , “Anaheim” – “Washington” – 4 :6 -- Ovechkin “B” (1+3), Vic. Kozlov “B” (0+1).
Alexander Ovechkin, having scored four points and ensured his Washington's victory over Anaheim, was recognized as the best player of the day, but Boston forward Marc Savard showed off the same performance. He chalked up another goal and three assists and moved into third place in the scoring competition. It is headed by Evgeniy Malkin. The Pittsburg striker has 30 points - 7 goals and 23 assists, but Semin, who is in second place, was unable to replenish his scorer tally, and with 27 points (13 goals + 14 assists) he begins to lag slightly behind his compatriot. Savard, who joined the fight, had 25 points (7+18).
Utah lost Boozer
Basketball. NBA. Regular season. Atlanta - Washington - 91:87, Detroit - Cleveland - 96:89, Oklahoma - Clippers - 88:108, Minnesota - Philadelphia -- 102:96, "Miami" -- "Toronto" -- 95:101, "New Orleans" -- "Sacramento" -- 96:105, "Houston" -- "Dallas" -- 86:96, “San Antonio” – “Denver” – 81:91, “Utah” – “Milwaukee” – 105:94 – Kirilenko (16 points + 7 rebounds + 3 assists + 5 steals + 4 blocked shots) , “Portland” - “Chicago” - 116:74.
Coming onto the court from the bench, Andrei Kirilenko manages to regularly and significantly replenish his statistical indicators. As soon as he recovered from his injury, Utah did not lose again. However, Milwaukee has always been considered a convenient opponent for the jazzmen - they have not been able to win in Salt Lake City for more than seven years. Now the victory came at a high price for Utah - the leader of the Jazzmen, Carlos Boozer, was injured; after scoring 20 points, he was forced to leave the court due to a sprain. It is still unknown how serious the injury is and how many matches Boozer will miss.
Ovchinnikov returns to Russia
Former goalkeeper of Lokomotiv, Dynamo and the Russian national team Sergei Ovchinnikov, who recently worked as an assistant to Yuri Semin in Dynamo Kiev, may soon lead Kuban, which at the end of this season won the right to again compete in the Premier League . The management of FC Kuban has not yet officially announced Ovchinnikov’s invitation, but confirmed the information that cooperation with Oleg Protasov, who led the team, has been terminated.
Protasov became the fourth coach whom Kuban fired this year. Alexander Tarkhanov started the season in Krasnodar, he was replaced by Sergei Pavlov, who later gave up his place to Poghos Galstyan. The team finished the championship with Protasov. As the last coach explained, the break in relations was due to the fact that the club was unable to provide stable funding on the scale agreed with it for the next year.
In addition, the issue with the owner of Kuban has not yet been resolved. The administration of the Krasnodar region put the club up for auction over and over again, constantly reducing the price, but was never able to reach an agreement with potential buyers.
Sidelnikov is vying for the post of coach of the Polish national team
Russian volleyball specialist Viktor Sidelnikov, under whose leadership Dynamo-TTG Kazan (now Zenit) won the Champions League, Russian Championship and National Cup, is among the candidates for the vacant post of head coach of the Polish men's national team.
After the victory of the Kazan team in the tournament of the strongest teams on the continent and the end of last season, Sidelnikov was left without a job. On a competitive basis, he put forward his candidacy for the position of “helmsman” of the German national team, but, according to the latest data, the German volleyball union has already reached an agreement in principle to conclude a contract with the Argentinean Raul Lozano, who previously worked with the Polish national team and led it to the “silver” championship World 2006.
The Polish Volleyball Federation (PZPS) accepts applications until the end of November, and then a special commission made up of local authorities in the sport must make its choice. In addition to Sidelnikov, the list of candidates includes the coach of the Olympic champions of Beijing 2008 volleyball players of the US national team, New Zealander Hugh McCutchen, former Bundestim helmsman Stelian Moculescu, head coach of the Polish club SKRA (Belchatov), Argentinean Daniel Castellani, as well as Italian Ferdinando De Giorgi, now working in the A1 Serie team "Lube Banka" (Macerata). True, Moculescu has already accepted the national squad of Romania, but he may refuse this position.
Sidelnikov is well known in Poland. He ended his playing career in the championship of this country, playing for Stilon (Chorzow), and this team at that time was headed by Waldemar Wspanyaly, who is now part of the commission for electing the coach of the Polish national team.
Davydenko will start the season in Chennai
The first racket of Russia Nikolay Davydenko will begin the 2009 season on the courts of Indian Chennai, where an ATP tournament with a prize fund of 450 thousand dollars will be held at the end of December - beginning of January.
Among the elite of men's professional tennis, Davydenko has a reputation as a player who tries to participate in as many tournaments as possible, giving himself virtually no rest. Interestingly, Nikolai played at the competition in Chennai only once, at the beginning of his career in 2001. Then the Russian was defeated in the starting circle, and now he is preparing to win the title. With this victory, Davydenko wants to make a good start to the new season. The city of Chennai used to be called Madras, the ATP tennis tournament has been held here since 1996, the current champion is our Mikhail Youzhny.