That seems like an odd goalie rule. I mean what happens if you use up your playing time for the foreign goalie with two games left for your back up and the back up gets hurt?
At first they wanted no goalies from outside then they changed there minds and now they change it to the rule you see. The reason I think is because the Russian want to develop there own goalies. The Russian have not had many great goalies over the years.
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Defending European club champion Metallurg Magnitogorsk acquired forward Stanislav Chistov from Avangard Omsk for a second-round pick in the 2009 KHL draft.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl announced on Tuesday the signing of former national team defender Vitali Vishnevsky.
The 28-year-old had two years left on his $5.4-million, three-year contract with the New Jersey Devils but the transfer was allowed after he cleared the waivers.
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Ak Bars Kazan re-signs star forwards Alexei Morozov and Danis Zaripov to five-year deals (Zapirov stayed on despite a "very good offer" from the Kings), and SKA St. Petersburg names Sergei Brylin team captain.
In an interview with Sovietsky-Sport, ex-Islanders goalie Wade Dubielewicz says a big difference between the KHL and the NHL is there is more traffic in front of the net and “the goalkeeper has to work more.” He was named top goalie in the recently concluded Ivan Romazana Memorial preseason tournament.
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Here is a quick round up of KHL teams. this is the world’s second-best hockey league.
Tarasov Division
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Best Russian club of last five years and reigning European champion, from steel city in southern Urals. Magnitka’s lawsuit after Evgeni Malkin jumped led to change in labor law that ended flow of Russians to NHL. Top players: F Jan Marek, F Stanislav Chistov, F Aleksei Kaigorodov
CSKA Moscow
Legendary giants of the Soviet era and winners of 32 domestic championships, Central Army (misnamed “Red Army” by Westerners) fell on hard times in ’90s and early 2000s but are revived, finishing third last season. Top players: G Jussi Markkanen, F Petr Schastlivy, F Oleg Saprykin
SKA St. Petersburg
Army club from Russia’s second city was long a doormat, but 2006 buy by Gazprom changed everything; last year they finished sixth. Team president is Aleksandr Medvedev, Gazprom’s export CEO and head of KHL. Top players: F Maksim Sushinsky, F Sergei Brylin, D Darius Kasparaitis
HK MVD Balashikha
Police team originally from Tver, 100 miles northwest of Moscow, but moved to Moscow suburbs in 2006, settling at new rink in Balashikha for next season. Though founded in 1949, HK MVD have won few honors. Top players: D Jeff Jillson, D Jean-Francois Fortin, F Aleksandr Buturlin
Traktor Chelyabinsk
Respected provincial club of Soviet era that produced many stars later snapped up by CSKA. Team from south Urals city rang up high PiM totals last season with ex-NHL goon Andrei Nazarov as coach. Top players: F Andrei Nikolishin, F Konstantin Kasyanchuk, D Martin Grenier
Khimik Voskresensk
Replacement for Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, which dropped out when local government cut funding. New club in Russia’s Hockeytown, named for team that moved away in 2005, won Vyshaya Liga last season. Top player: F Viktor Gordiouk
Bobrov Division
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Last season’s runaway first-place team and narrow winner of playoff final, from Ufa, pop. one million, capital of Bashkortostan. Rich Bashneft-backed club is named for Bashkir poet and leader of 1770s peasant rebellion. Top players: F Alexander Radulov, D Oleg Tverdovsky, F Alexander Perezhogin
Atlant Mytishchi
Formerly Khimik Moscow Oblast and before that Khimik Voskresensk, in Russia’s Hockeytown. Russia is now like North America, with clubs moving around to wherever best arena deals are, in this case the Moscow suburbs. Top players: G Ray Emery, D Magnus Johansson, F Jan Bulis
Severstal Cherepovets
From an old Volga city between Moscow and St. Petersburg and headquarters of giant Severstal ( “Northsteel”) steelworks. Though founded in 1956, club didn’t reach top division till 1993. Top players: G Rastislav Stana, D Joel Kwiatkowski, F Pavel Vorobiev
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Modest club from city of 550,000 in Kuzbass mining region, 300 miles north of where Kazakhstan meets Mongolia. Has rivalry with nearby Sibir Novosibirsk. Top player: F Richard Kapus
Spartak Moscow
Legendary trade union club that predates Soviet hockey. Founded by soccer/bandy/hockey great Nikolai Starostin, who spent ’40s in gulag but survived through protection of Stalin’s son. Debts forced club to miss 2006-07. Top players: F Branko Radivojevic, F Stefan Ruzicka, F Ondrej Fiala
Dynamo Minsk
New club formed from smaller Belarusian club of same name gains KHL entry for country run by hockey-loving autocrat Alexander Lukashenko. Managed by longtime NHL’er Vladimir Tsyplakov. Top player: G Andy Chiodo, D Igor Ulanov, F Mike Maneluk
Chernyshev Division
Ak Bars Kazan
Tatneft-funded giant from Tatarstan capital, won title for city’s 1001st anniversary. Explictly proud of Tatar identity, example of how wealth is helping provincial minorities assert themselves through success at hockey. Top players: F Niko Kapanen, F Aleksei Morozov, F Tony Martensson
Dynamo Moscow
Old Interior Ministry team that in Soviet era had to play second fiddle to CSKA but is now strongest in Moscow. Only club never demoted since start of Soviet hockey in 1946, has won nine championships, most recently in 2005. Top players: F Mattias Weinhandl, F Jamie Lundmark, D Daniil Markov
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
From small Tatar city founded in 1961 with building of petrochemical plant, club was formed just seven years later. Has had modest results since first reaching the top tier in 1984-85. Top players: F Ladislav Kohn, F Kirby Law, F Dmitry Makarov
Vityaz Chekhov
Another transient club in Moscow suburbs, Vityaz were originally in nearby Podolsk. At bottom of table, they gooned it up last year with Darcy Verot (511 PiM in 43 games) and added Chris Simon for 2008-09. Top players: F Verot, F Simon, F Nathan Perrott
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Joined top league in 1947 yet almost utterly bereft of glory, except for a second-place finish in 1961. City, Russia’s fourth-largest, was known as Gorky in Soviet era. Club is named for Torpedo auto plant. Top players: G Mika Noronen, F Pavel Brendl, D Yuri Butsayev
Barys Astana
Club from wealthy new capital of Kazakhstan was founded in 1999 and promoted to KHL from Vyshaya League. “Barys” means panther, as “Ak Bars” means snow leopard. Top players: D Branislav Mezei, F Josef Stumpel, G Marc Lamothe
Kharlamov Division
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Club from 998-year-old Volga city has won three championships since 1997 and leads KHL’s “Group of Death.” Last season, with Alexei Yashin on team, Loko came within one game of winning a fourth. Top players: F Yashin, F Josef Vasicek, D Vitaly Vishnevsky, G Alexei Mikhnov
Avangard Omsk
Siberian club once owned by Roman Abramovich’s Sibneft, until he sold holdings to Gazprom in 2005. Hawks are run by ex-players union chief Anatoly Bardin, who signed Jaromir Jagr with help of regional governor. Top players: F Jaromir Jagr, F Alexei Cherepanov, F Pavel Rosa
Lada Togliatti
In 1994 became first non-Moscow club to win national championship. From planned city on Volga, named for Italian communist leader, with strong tradition of industry-sponsored workers sports clubs. Top players: D Dmitry Vorobiev, G Mike Fountain, D Antti-Jussi Niemi
Sibir Novosibirsk
Founded in 1962 and based in Siberian city of 1.5 million, Russia’s third largest, Sibir are perennial cellar-dwellers. Their best finish ever by far — 5th — took place in 2006-07, but last season they were back to familiar 19th. Top players: D Dmitry Yushkevich, F Ivan Ciernik
Amur Khabarovsk
Club on Chinese border in Russian Far East, some 1800 miles from nearest rival (Novokuznetsk) and 5300 miles from Moscow. Always battling demotion or suffering it, yet every match sells out. Top player: G Tyler Moss
Dynamo Riga
New Latvian club named for famous USSR-era team, illustrating evolving attitudes toward Soviet legacy, even in country that chafed under Soviet rule. Former Latvian prime minister and president are key investors. Top players: F Marcel Hossa, F Ronald Petrovicky, D Filip Novak
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Vityaz 3-4 HK MVD
0-1 Ivan Bykov (Krovopuskov)
1-1 Igor Radulov (Bezrukov) PP
2-1 Gleb Klimenko
2-2 Denis Abdullin (Velikov) PP
3-2 Igor Radulov
3-3 Aleksei Ugarov (Jillson, Arekaev) PP
3-4 Jeff Jillson (Tsvetkov, Subbotin)
Spartak Moscow 6-5 ot Atlant Mytischy
0-1 Aleksander Boikov (Burmagin) SH
1-1 Aleksander Drozdetsky (Baev, Upper) PP
1-2 Magnus Johansson (Bulis, Korolev) PP
1-3 Jan Bulis (Korolyuk, Pronin) PP
2-3 Nikita Schitov (Kanareykin, Radivojevic)
2-4 Magnus Johansson (Korolev, Korolyuk) PP
3-4 Aleksander Yunkov (M. Yunkov)
4-4 Denis Baev (Drozdetsky, Schitov) PP
5-4 Branko Radivojevic (Fiala)
5-5 Nikolai Pronin (Johansson, Bulis)
6-5 Stefan Ruzicka (Baev) PP Video
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Sibir 2-3 ot Dynamo Moscow
1-0 Vladimir Tarasenko (Bakika, Muratov)
1-1 Ivan Nepryaev (Afansenkov)
2-1 Aleksander Borovkov (Meleshko, Grot) PP
2-2 Aleksei Zhitnik
2-3 Aleksei Kalyuzhny (Rachunek)
Metallurg Nk 5-2 Dynamo Minsk
1-0 Aleksander Tatarinov (Gorachek)
2-0 Maksim Kitsyn (Stasyuk)
3-0 Egor Mikhailov (Horava)
4-0 Albert Vishnyakov (Dadydov, Polishchuk)
4-1 Jeff Ulmer PS
5-1 Maksim Kitsyn (Stasyuk)
5-2 Andrei Mikhailev PP
Traktor 3-2 Severstal
1-0 Igor Velichkin
1-1 Joel Kwiatkowski (Varlamov, Kochetkov)
1-2 Nikolai Bardin (Trubachev) PP
2-2 Anton Glinkin (Zavarukhin)
3-2 Andrei Popov
Metallurg Mg 2-1 SKA St. Petersburg
0-1 Sergei Brylin (Sushinsky)
1-1 Jan Marek (Pilarzh)
2-1 Denis Platonov (Chistov, Zavaruhin)
Lada 5-4 Khimik
1-0 Georgijs Pujacs (Krysanov)
2-0 Dmitri Vorobiev (Ketov) PP
2-1 Aleksei Petrov (Galushkin, Luchinkin) PP
3-1 Evgeni Bodrov (Andronov)
3-2 Sergei Korolyov
4-2 Vadim Golubtsov (Bodrov)
4-3 Sergei Luchinkin (Kolkunov) PP
5-3 Georgijs Pujacs (Bodrov)
5-4 Andrei Galushkin
Torpedo 2-3 CSKA Moscow
1-0 Ilya Kablukov (Novopashin, Kosourov)
2-0 Mikhail Tyulyapkin (Kharitonov, Brendl) PP
2-1 Mika Hannula (Skugarev)
2-2 Sergei Shirokov
2-3 Aleksander Suglobov
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 1-2 ps Barys Astana
0-1 Kevin Dallman (Spirodonov) PP
1-1 Ladislav Kohn (Makarov)
1-2 Trevor Letovski SOG
Ak Bars Kazan 4-2 Avangard Omsk
0-1 Pavel Rosa (Jagr)
1-1 Danis Zaripov (Pervyshin) PP
2-1 Grigori Shafigulin (Hentunen) SH
2-2 Anton Malyshev (Ezhov, Volkov)
3-2 Aleksei Morozov (Pervyshin, Zaripov) PP
4-2 Aleksei Morozov (Nikulin, Zaripov) PP Video
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Traktor 2-5 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
0-1 Vitaly Vishnevsky (Yashin, Vasicek) PP
1-1 Oleg Piganovich (Galkin, Zavarukhin) PP
1-2 Sergei Konkov (Åkerman, Vishnevsky)
1-3 Aleksander Galimov
1-4 Ivan Tkachenko (D. Semin)
2-5 Oleg Piganovich (Skachkov, Nikolishin)
Martin Grenier, playing his second KHL game with Traktor Chelyabinsk. With Traktor down 4-1 halfway through the match, the Canadian tafgai stepped onto the ice for his first shift, took two steps and attacked Sergei Zhukov, punching the prone Lokomotiv player repeatedly (video here) and getting a match penalty
Atlant Mytishchi 4-1 Vityaz
0-1 Derrick Walser (I. Radulov, Simon)
1-1 Esa Pirnes (Leschev, Bykov) PP
2-1 Sergei Mozyakin (Leschev, Bykov) PP
3-1 Magnus Johanson (Bulis) SH
4-1 Sergei Mozyakin (Johansson)
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Igor Mirnov a Ottawa Senators draft pick broke his wrist during a preseason game of his HC Metallurg Magnitogorsk against HC Ak Bars. He will miss two months.
Blue liner Yuri Alexandrov a Boston Bruins draft pick suffered from a serious injury. HC Severstal’s doctor Dmitri Bogdashevsky has declared that Yuri had a dislocation of the acromioclavicular articulation (in the shoulder) and he is out of action for three months.
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