Week review

The tournament table and other statistics here.

On 25.01 Metallurg Magnitogorsk beat Ak Bars Kazan 2:0. The second goal was scored in the empty net by Metallurg’s goalie Ilya Proskuryakov :-) A situation like this happened for the first time in KHL.

In one match one of the leaders Atlant beats one of the other leaders – SKA St. Petersburg 2:1, in the second – Atlant loses to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 1:5. Other interesting results: Khimik – Amur 5:2 on January 28, but on January 30 Amur beat Avangard Omsk with a same 5:2 (!) – Avangard lost the first game without its ex-head coach Wane Fleming, who has left the team. The clubs new trainer will be Igor Nikitin ‘till the end of the season.

The biggest results of the week were an 1:6 for Dinamo Minsk against Atlant (24.01), Vityaz – Dinamo Moscow 0:6 (27.01), Ak Bars – Traktor 6:2 (28.01), Dinamo Riga – CSKA also 2:6 (29.01), Lokomotiv – MVD 7:2, Severstal – Atlant 0:6 (both – 30.01).

Saturday's round was full of unexpected results: MVD won CSKA 2:0; Heftekhimik and Lada crushed their opponents - Magnitogorsk's Metallurg 5:1 and Ufa's Salavat Yulaev 5:2 correspondingly; Avangard Omsk finally organized a big win - 7:1 over Sibir. Only Spartak's (against Dinamo Minsk 2:0) and Dinamo Moscow's (against Torpedo 4:2) wins seem logical enough.

If tomorrow’s the play-off…

(1) Salavat Yulaev – Severstal (16)
(2) Ak Bars – Neftekhimik (15)
(3) Lokomotiv – Lada (14)
(4) CSKA – Torpedo (13)
(5) Atlant – Dinamo R (12)
(6) Metallurg Mg – Avangard (11)
(7) Dinamo M – Traktor (10)
(8) SKA – Spartak (9)

Now there's going to be a break in the KHL. The games will resume on February 11.