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Hockey. NHL. Regular season. Pittsburgh - Toronto - 5:2, Detroit - Nashville - 2:3, Vancouver - Anaheim - 5:4 (bullet point), Philadelphia - - “San Jose” – 4:5 (bullet), “Chicago” – “Dallas” – 5:3.
Sidney Crosby scored twice for Pittsburgh. Toronto, losing 0:4 after the second period, spent the final 20 minutes with maximum activity. The ratio of shots on target in this third of the match was 15:2 in favor of the guests, but they only managed to reduce the score. The Penguins' winning streak has already lasted 11 matches.
At a meeting of the NHL Council, the issue of holding one of the matches of the 2011/12 season in Russia was preliminary considered. The most likely candidates are Moscow and St. Petersburg. Since 2007, the National Hockey League has opened its championships in the Old World. The games have already been held in the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and the UK.
Boston is moving non-stop
Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Boston" - "Denver" - 105:98, "New York" - "Toronto" - 113:110, "Milwaukee" - "Indiana" - 97:95, "San Antonio" - - Golden State - 111:94, Phoenix - Memphis - 98:104 OT, Clippers - Lakers - 86:87, Cleveland - Chicago - 83:88, “New Orleans” – “Detroit” – 93:74, “Minnesota” – “Oklahoma” – 103:111, “Utah” – “Miami” – 98:111, “Sacramento” " - "Washington" - 116:91.
2007 European champion Andrei Kirilenko entered Utah's starting lineup, spent almost 39 minutes of net time on the court, brought his team 13 points, but missed twice when trying to hit the opponents' hoop from long range. Alas, the Russian has the most losses in the team (4) and the worst utility indicator - minus 15.
Boston won its eighth win in a row, with the Celts scoring triple-digit points in their last three games. This time, Ray Allen (28 points) and playmaker Rajon Rondo (13 assists) scored. San Antonio is off to the best start to a season in team history. With just over a quarter of the scheduled regular season matches behind them, the Spurs suffered only three defeats in 21 games.
The NBA players' union has demanded the elimination of the age limit for admission to the league under a new collective agreement. While young basketball players are prohibited from starting their career in the association immediately after graduating from high school, that is, only after reaching the age of 19 can a player be drafted.
Klitschko-Chisora fight canceled
The fight scheduled for Saturday in Mannheim (Germany) between Ukrainian heavyweight Vladimir Klitschko and Zimbabwean, British citizen Derek Chisora for the titles according to the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the International Boxing Organization (WBO) has been cancelled.
The reason is Klitschko's back muscle injury. According to the Klitschko brothers' adviser Sheckley Finkel, the injury is not very dangerous and Wladimir should make a full recovery in about two months. The Ukrainian’s opponent has already made a statement in which he showed disrespect. “Klitschko just didn’t want to fight me,” Chisora said. - We have a clause in our contract according to which we still have to fight. So the fight will happen sooner or later. All we have to do is wait.”
Dynamos are leading in the “group of death”
After the start of the CEV Women's Cup and the start of the second round of the Challenge Cup for volleyball players, all ten Russian clubs that have received access to the continental arena are involved in this season's European tournaments.
In the 1/16 finals of the CEV Cup, the bronze medalist of the 2009/10 Russian Championship, Dynamo Krasnodar beat the Polish Centrostal (Bydgoszcz) on the road - 3:1 (24:26, 25:14, 25:23, 25:21 ). Led by Nikolai Karpol, Uralochka-NTMK (Sverdlovsk region) upset Urbino in Italy - 3:1 (25:21, 27:25, 23:25, 25:20). Last night, Omichka also entered the fight, hosting Lokomotiv Baku (Azerbaijan) in the second round of the Challenge Cup.
The day before, the capital's Dynamo team in Quartet "B" of the Champions League confidently defeated the finalist of the previous tournament of the strongest teams of the Old World, Turkish Fenerbahce, led by two-time world champion Lyubov Sokolova, at home - 3:0 (25:16, 25:21, 25:17) . Natalya Goncharova scored for the Blues and Whites with 18 points, one less for Sokolova. After the summer draw, the four “B” received the name “group of death”, since the current trophy winner, the Italian Foppapedretti, is still playing here. But Dynamo is not embarrassed by such a formidable neighborhood; they defeated the team from Bergamo in the previous round and are now in first place with a 100% result - nine points out of nine possible with a set ratio of 9:1. In the four “A”, the champion of Russia “Zarechye-Odintsovo” failed to cope with the Turkish “Vakifbank” on the road - 0:3 (26:28, 18:25, 9:25). Zarechenki are in second place with five points, their Istanbul opponents are ahead with eight points.
In the men's Champions League, Zenit Kazan lost to an opponent of a clearly lower class. Bulgarian CSKA (Sofia) celebrated a sensational victory in the tiebreak - 3:2 (25:23, 16:25, 25:23, 22:25, 15:10). Taking into account Zenit's failures in our Super League matches against Yaroslavich and Gazprom-Yugra, this is the third consecutive defeat of the Kazan team in five-set matches.
CSKA retained ghostly chances
CSKA basketball players continue to maintain minimal, purely theoretical chances of getting into the “Top 16” of the ULEB Euroleague. A home victory over the Spanish Pamesa (Valencia) - 73:63 - helped the “red-blues” not to give up their hopes of reaching the second stage early. But in order to continue playing in the tournament, the army team needs to win the two remaining matches, subject to the defeat of the Turkish Efes Pilsen and Pamesa, and in the final round, Dmitry Shakulin’s charges need to prevail against the Istanbul club with a difference of at least 15 points. The national champions will hold their next meeting on December 15 at the Slovenian Olimpia.