Vityaz continues to win

Vityaz won their fourth victory in a row in the KHL championship

“Vityaz” won a fourth victory in a row, Roman Chervenka’s double brought “Avangard” a victory over “Lion”, “Dynamo” Riga ousted “Spartak” from the cup eight, and “Traktor” scored eight goals in Nizhnekamsk.

“Vityaz” won the fourth victory in a row, and the game between the Chekhov club and “Severstal” turned out to be very dramatic. The Cherepovets managed to win back four goals, but the ending was still up to the hosts. As part of Vityaz, the last of the participants in the mass brawl with Dynamo Riga, Kip Brennan, served his disqualification, who took the place of his “colleague” Mirasti in the lineup and opened the scoring for his goals in the KHL!

“Vityaz” has finally convinced its rivals that it is better not to mess with its fighters, and now, solely for prevention, Andrei Nazarov is releasing only one tough guy (Nick Tarnaski is still not a classic fighter and is one of the team’s key center forwards). At the same time, “Vityaz” improved greatly, primarily in the attacking game, although in September, over and over again, they left the ice without scoring goals at all.

As part of Severstal, Vasily Koshechkin could not withstand the tension, who a couple of days ago missed an offensive puck from the wicket, and in Chekhov Dmitry Kvartalnov was forced to replace him in the debut of the second period, when Koshechkin missed the fourth goal.

Severstal had 21-year-old KHL debutant Roman Smiryagin in reserve, however, as often happens, the appearance of even an inexperienced goalkeeper turned the tide of the meeting.

Severstal unleashed a hail of attacks on Matt Dalton , who missed four goals in a row, but also helped out more than once. Once again the leadership role was taken by the trio Straka - Shipachev - Ketov, and the score was even before the second break. However, in the decisive twenty minutes, the leaders of the Chekhov club had their say. Belousov and Panarin scored within a minute of each other, and Vityaz continued its winning streak. After the match, guest coach Dmitry Kvartalnov noted that all his team’s efforts to save the result were reversed by one mistake in the third period. <1>

“It will be a good lesson for the guys. When you're 4-0 ahead, you need to keep playing and not stop. We stopped for a second and immediately got four own goals. The guys are just trying. This is what we lacked in the first ten matches. There was no such crazy dedication. Now she has appeared and apparently the hockey god saw this and decided to help us,” Nazarov said after the match.

Neftekhimik throws itself out of the frying pan and into the fire: after the defeat of Spartak in Sokolniki, Alexander Smirnov’s team was disgraced in a home match with Traktor, although in case of victory the Nizhnekamsk team had a chance to rise from the 10th place to fifth place in the Western Conference! And even though Dmitry Obukhov , expelled from Ak Bars, made a good debut at Neftekhimik, eight missed goals neutralized the game of the new trio Sergeev - Kvasha - Obukhov, who accounted for both of the hosts' goals.

For Traktor, Evgeny Kuznetsov scored his 10th goal of the season, and defender Alexander Ryazantsev scored a double.

And the leader among the championship snipers, Roman Cervenka, scored a double in Poprad and brought the number of goals scored in the season to 13. “Avant-garde” beat “Lev” not without difficulty, opening the scoring through the efforts of Alexander Frolov , who has been fairly criticized this season.

Among the hosts, their main goal scorer, team captain Lubos Bartechko, distinguished himself.

Dynamo Riga managed to score the only goal in the match against Ugra in the third period and get ahead of Spartak, making it into the top eight teams in the Western Conference. As befits the leaders of the Riga team, the goal was scored by Martin Karsums, Dynamo's leader in goals scored. The hosts' goalkeeper Christopher Holt also played an excellent match, although Mikhail Biryukov also confirmed his reputation as one of the most reliable goalkeepers in the league.

The position of the teams, match results and other news can be viewed on the KHL page .

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