Avtomobilist vs CSKA. What will the current winner of the Gagarin Cup show in Yekaterinburg?
On January 15, Ekaterinburg's Uralets Arena will host participants in the next match of the KHL regular championship. Local Avtomobilist will play against the capital's CSKA.
The Ural club goes through the long distance of the regular season in its usual style. The team did not avoid the traditional failure, this time it came in November, but they pulled themselves together in time and have now practically guaranteed themselves a place in the cup stage of the championship. With the beginning of winter, the Urals systematically began to add, winning noticeably more often than losing.
In January, Nikolai Zavarukhin’s team had three wins in four matches, the only misfire came on a visit to Kazan, where Avtomobilist lost to the local Ak Bars with a minimal score of 1-2. In that match, the team played poorly in attack; one goal scored per match is an uncharacteristic indicator for the current Avtomobilist. Thus, in the three matches they won in January, the Urals invariably scored four goals, beating Traktor at home 4-3, and away at HC Sochi and Tolyatti Lada with the same score 4-1. These victories allowed Avtomobilist to rise to fifth place in the standings, while Chelyabinsk Traktor, which is in fourth place, has the same number of points, but is ahead of its geographical neighbors due to additional indicators.
CSKA
The army team continues to leave an ambiguous impression of their play in the current championship. The capital's club has undergone virtually no changes compared to last year's triumph, but so far the team's play is far from championship standard. The army team's problem is the lack of stability in results, which the capital's club has usually been famous for in the last few seasons. Sergei Fedorov's players periodically produce a series of outstanding matches, but then an inexplicable failure follows.
This happened after the New Year holidays. Three bright victories in a row, including over their principal rivals from Spartak 3-2 and a 7-2 defeat of the daring Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo, it would seem that the army team was coming out of the crisis. But the army team failed the capital derby against their fellow countrymen Dynamo again, losing to the blue and white on all counts. Already at the beginning of the second period, Dynamo took a 3-0 lead, practically closing the question of the winner of the match. The army team, through the efforts of Williams and Slepyshev, restored the intrigue, but failed to save the game. In an attempt to even the score, the army team removed the goalkeeper, but in the end they only let the puck into the empty net. Thus, the army team is still sixth in the West, risking falling into SKA St. Petersburg in the first round of the playoffs.
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AvtomobilistThe Ural club goes through the long distance of the regular season in its usual style. The team did not avoid the traditional failure, this time it came in November, but they pulled themselves together in time and have now practically guaranteed themselves a place in the cup stage of the championship. With the beginning of winter, the Urals systematically began to add, winning noticeably more often than losing.
In January, Nikolai Zavarukhin’s team had three wins in four matches, the only misfire came on a visit to Kazan, where Avtomobilist lost to the local Ak Bars with a minimal score of 1-2. In that match, the team played poorly in attack; one goal scored per match is an uncharacteristic indicator for the current Avtomobilist. Thus, in the three matches they won in January, the Urals invariably scored four goals, beating Traktor at home 4-3, and away at HC Sochi and Tolyatti Lada with the same score 4-1. These victories allowed Avtomobilist to rise to fifth place in the standings, while Chelyabinsk Traktor, which is in fourth place, has the same number of points, but is ahead of its geographical neighbors due to additional indicators.
CSKA
The army team continues to leave an ambiguous impression of their play in the current championship. The capital's club has undergone virtually no changes compared to last year's triumph, but so far the team's play is far from championship standard. The army team's problem is the lack of stability in results, which the capital's club has usually been famous for in the last few seasons. Sergei Fedorov's players periodically produce a series of outstanding matches, but then an inexplicable failure follows.
This happened after the New Year holidays. Three bright victories in a row, including over their principal rivals from Spartak 3-2 and a 7-2 defeat of the daring Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo, it would seem that the army team was coming out of the crisis. But the army team failed the capital derby against their fellow countrymen Dynamo again, losing to the blue and white on all counts. Already at the beginning of the second period, Dynamo took a 3-0 lead, practically closing the question of the winner of the match. The army team, through the efforts of Williams and Slepyshev, restored the intrigue, but failed to save the game. In an attempt to even the score, the army team removed the goalkeeper, but in the end they only let the puck into the empty net. Thus, the army team is still sixth in the West, risking falling into SKA St. Petersburg in the first round of the playoffs.
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