Ak Bars vs Spartak. Will Barca extend their winning streak?
By the will of the calendar, Ak Bars and Spartak will play their second full-time duel in just a few days. This time the game will be held in Kazan on September 21.
The most stellar named KHL team is gradually starting to gain the expected momentum. Having gathered a whole scattering of venerable domestic hockey players under their banners and inviting Oleg Znark to the coaching bridge, Kazan immediately became the main favorites of the championship, from whom they expected confident victories already at the start of the championship. However, the starting segment of the championship Kazan are with certain problems, which has resulted in a point loss. To some extent, this is expected, the team game of Ak Bars is still in its infancy, so Kazan often take their toll due to the higher individual skill of the leading hockey players.
Barsov had two defeats at the start of the season, both from Dynamo teams - 0:2 from Moscow and 2:3 from Minsk. There are more winning matches - five, but only in the games against the capital's CSKA and Spartak Kazan's advantage was tangible. Admiral, Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo and Minsk Dynamo were beaten by a margin of only one puck. Despite not the most spectacular game, after a series of three victories in a row, Znarka's wards broke into the top three in the East, taking third place in their conference with 11 points scored.
Spartak
If Ak Bars began to improve in recent matches, then the red-whites have a reverse story. Having given one of the best starting segments in its modern history (four wins in five matches), Spartak fell further, losing three games in a row before visiting Kazan. The game in attack becomes a serious problem for the red-whites, at the moment the average performance of Spartak does not even reach two goals per match. For the time being, the defense led by the Slovak goalkeeper Patrik Rybar, who caught the courage, rescued him, but in the last games this trump card of the capital team stopped working. Four goals each from Ak Bars and Avtomobilist, two from Torpedo, while the attack in these matches steadily accumulated only one abandoned puck.
However, the points reserve gained at the start of the season allows the red-whites to cling to the group of leaders in the Western Conference. At the moment, Spartak has ten points scored and the current fourth place, and the gap from the leading St. Petersburg SKA is quite serious and is already six points.
Our Expert Predictions & Analysis on Ak Bars vs Spartak
Ak BarsThe most stellar named KHL team is gradually starting to gain the expected momentum. Having gathered a whole scattering of venerable domestic hockey players under their banners and inviting Oleg Znark to the coaching bridge, Kazan immediately became the main favorites of the championship, from whom they expected confident victories already at the start of the championship. However, the starting segment of the championship Kazan are with certain problems, which has resulted in a point loss. To some extent, this is expected, the team game of Ak Bars is still in its infancy, so Kazan often take their toll due to the higher individual skill of the leading hockey players.
Barsov had two defeats at the start of the season, both from Dynamo teams - 0:2 from Moscow and 2:3 from Minsk. There are more winning matches - five, but only in the games against the capital's CSKA and Spartak Kazan's advantage was tangible. Admiral, Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo and Minsk Dynamo were beaten by a margin of only one puck. Despite not the most spectacular game, after a series of three victories in a row, Znarka's wards broke into the top three in the East, taking third place in their conference with 11 points scored.
Spartak
If Ak Bars began to improve in recent matches, then the red-whites have a reverse story. Having given one of the best starting segments in its modern history (four wins in five matches), Spartak fell further, losing three games in a row before visiting Kazan. The game in attack becomes a serious problem for the red-whites, at the moment the average performance of Spartak does not even reach two goals per match. For the time being, the defense led by the Slovak goalkeeper Patrik Rybar, who caught the courage, rescued him, but in the last games this trump card of the capital team stopped working. Four goals each from Ak Bars and Avtomobilist, two from Torpedo, while the attack in these matches steadily accumulated only one abandoned puck.
However, the points reserve gained at the start of the season allows the red-whites to cling to the group of leaders in the Western Conference. At the moment, Spartak has ten points scored and the current fourth place, and the gap from the leading St. Petersburg SKA is quite serious and is already six points.
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