Dynamo Riga goalie Edgars Masalskis is recovering in a Riga hospital after being injured in a street fight around 4 a.m. Tuesday morning. Masalskis, who had just been named KHL Goalie of the Week, was involved in the fight with five or six individuals on his way home from a postgame dinner in the Latvian capital.
Doctors told Dinamo officials yesterday that they had operated to repair Masalskis’s fractured right ankle and accompanying nerve damage and that he will be out of action until New Year’s at the earliest.
Dynamo are looking for a new goalie.
Dynamo’s Slovakian coach, Július Šupler, is looking at four Europe-based goalies, including Slovak international Ján Lašák, currently with Pardubice in the Czech Extraliga.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK 2
Goalie: Edgars Masalskis (Riga) Defencemen: Magnus Johansson (Atlant) Forward: Valeri Khlebnikov (Novokuznetsk) Rookie: Anton Glinkin (Traktor)
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Calgary Flames assistant coach Wayne Fleming will be the new head coach of Russian team Avangard Omsk. The NHL club accepted the resignation of the Canadian.
“We have great respect for the work Wayne did with us and appreciate his contributions,” said Flames GM Darryl Sutter. “We understand that the opportunity to be the head coach of a significant team such as this represents the very best opportunity for him and his career at this time.”
Fleming is no complete stranger in the KHL. In June, he travelled to Minsk where he was supposed to sign with Dynamo Minsk and the Belarusian federation but finally, he went back to the Flames.
The 58-year-old comes to Siberia to take over a team in crisis. The club, owned by oil billionaire Roman Abramovich, who’s also famous for calling the Londoner football team Chelsea his own, spent millions to have a team fighting for the championship and signing high-calibre players starring Jaromir Jagr.
The Czech superstar had four points (2+2) which makes him the second-best scorer in the team after Dmitri Pestunov. Far less than the most successful scorers of the league. Ak Bars Kazan’s Danis Zaripov is leading with 11 points (5+6) after six games.
Avangard began with a road trip fiasco, losing to Ak Bars Kazan (4-2) and Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (3-1) before beating Lada Togliatti, 2-1. The first home game with an upsetting 6-0 sweep against reigning European club champion Metallurg Magnitogorsk calmed down the nerves for some hours but the home defeats to Salavat Yulayev Ufa (5-1) and Traktor Chelyabinsk (6-3) were definitely too much.
Of 24 teams, Avangard is ranked 21st in the league with two wins in six games and the club recently announced to find a new coach after what they call a poor performance. After six games, head coach Sergei Gersonsky decided to make way for a new coach and the club management seemed to have looked for a North American coach as also Bob Hartley and Dave King were rumoured to be candidates in the Russian media.
Fleming was associate coach for Team Canada at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, and the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games, and head coach in several other events including the 2001 and 2002 IIHF World Championship.
It is not known yet when Fleming will debut but at least today against Lada Togliatti, Igor Nikitin will be behind the bench before the avant-garde coach from Canada will arrive. On Sunday, the team has another road trip with games in Novosibirsk, Novokuznetsk and twice in Khabarovsk.
Source: IIHF.com
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Traktor 4-3so Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
0-1 Kirby Law
0-2 Ladislav Kohn (K. Makarov)
1-2 Evgeni Galkin (Zavarukhin, Platil) PP
2-2 Oleg Kvasha (Popov)
3-2 Jan Platil (Zavarukhin)
3-3 Aleksander Islamov (Sokolov)
4-3 Oleg Kvasha SOG
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Atlant Mytischy 4-3 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
1-0 Jan Bulis 3 (Balandin, Korolev) PP
1-1 Aleksander Guskov (Konkov, Yashin) PP
1-2 Aleksei Vasiliev (Rudenko)
2-2 Nikolai Pronin (Bulis, Johansson)
3-2 Sergei Mozyakin (Leschev)
3-3 Aleksander Guskov (Tkachenko, Rudenko)
4-3 Aleksander Korolyuk (Vlasenkov, Arkhipov)
Aleksander Guskov 2 goals & Jan Bulis 2 points.
Traktor 4-1 Ak Bars Kazan
1-0 Alex Zavarukhin PP
2-0 Evgene Dadonov (Shakhraychuk)
3-0 Martin Grenier (Nikolishin)
4-0 Andrei Nikolishin (Piganovich) PP
4-1 Danis Zaripov (Panin, Morozov)
Andrei Nikolishin’s goal and assist.
Sibir 2-3ot Avangard Omsk
1-0 Andrei Bashkirov (Krivchenko, Skopintsev)
1-1 Jaromir Jagr (Bondarev)
2-1 Evgeni Lapin (Alekseev, Tyutin)
2-2 Anton Kuryanov (Popov, Cherepanov)
2-3 Jaromir Jagr (Belov)
Jaromir Jagr scores twice, including the overtime winner.
Wayne Fleming losses his first game behind the bench.
Torpedo 4-2 SKA St. Petersburg
1-0 Egor Shastin (Tyulyapkin, Podhradsky)
2-0 Maksim Potapov (Kosourov)
2-1 Sergei Gusev PP
3-1 Pavel Brendl (Podhradsky) PP
3-2 Sergei Gusev (Korolev)
4-2 Mikhail Tyulyapkin (Kosourov) EN
Alexander Medvedev’s club is in free fall. Earlier in the day he announced the hiring of former Severstal GM Andrei Tochitsky as SKA GM.
Metallurg Nk 3-2so Khimik
0-1 Aleksander Gorelov (Gordlyuk) PP
0-2 Maksim Galkin (Gordlyuk, Romanovsky)
1-2 Egor Mikhailov (Kapus, Dudarev)
2-2 Aleksander Shinkar (Semin)
3-2 Egor Mikhailov SOG
HK MVD 4-3ot Severstal
1-0 Maksim Soloviev (Trakhanov, Antonenko) PP
2-0 Vladimir Gorbunov SH
3-0 Denis Kokarev
3-1 Joel Kwiatkowski (Trubachev, Straka) PP
3-2 Andrew Shaefer (Vorobiev)
3-3 Josef Straka (Nagy)
4-3 Oleg Antoneko (Tsvetkov) PP1
Metallurg Mg 2-1so Lada
1-0 Aleksei Kaigorodov (Marek, Simakov)
1-1 Anton Krysanov (Vorobiev)
2-1 Aleksei Simakov
Amur 1-2 Barys Astana
1-0 Vladimir Antipin (Aksenenko) PP
1-1 Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev (Belyaev, Fraskevich)
1-2 Maksim Spiridonov (Glazachev, Stumpel)
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Calgary Flames forward Marcus Nilson will be playing for Yaroslavl Lokomotiv of the KHL. The Flames and the Russian have come to an agreement wherein the Flames will pay Nilson's $1 million salary, but won't count against the cap.
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Metallurg Nk 2-3 Avangard Omsk
0-1 Jaromir Jagr (Klepis, Pestunov)
0-2 Aleksei Cherepanov (Popov) PP
0-3 Aleksei Cherepanov (Nikitin, Kuryanov)
1-3 Nikolai Semin (Kapus) PP
2-3 Dudarev (Mikhailov)
New York Rangers 1st round pick Aleksei Cherepanov strikes for two goals.
Salavat Yulaev 4-2 Ak Bars Kazan
1-0 Aleksander Perezhogin (Proshkin, Schadilov) PP1
2-0 Andrei Taratukhin (Ki. Koltsov) SH
3-0 Aleksei Medvedev (Blatak, Nurtdinov)
4-0 Vladimir Antipov (Mikeska) PP
4-1 Vyacheslav Buravchikov (Mårtensson) SH
4-2 Ilya Nikulin (Mårtensson, Morozov) PP
Torpedo 0-1 Severstal
0-1 Josef Straka (Koreshkov, Nagy) PP
Amur 4-2 Khimik
0-1 Aleksander Kozhevnikov (Petrov)
1-1 Sergei Sevostyanov (Nylander)
2-1 Oleg Belov (Bashko, Bashkatov)
3-1 Vitaly Shulakov (Turkovsky, Belov) PP
3-2 Viktor Gordiyuk
4-2 Sergei Sevostyanov (Sevostyanov)
Traktor 2-6 Lada
0-1 Konstantin Panov
0-2 Konstantin Panov (Ketov)
1-2 Aleksei Zavarukhin (Galkin, Glinkin) PP
1-3 Aleksander Chernikov (Makarov) PP
2-3 Oleg Kvasha (Nikolishin, Dadonov)
2-4 Aleksander Chernikov
2-5 Evgeni Bodrov (Mikhnov)
2-6 Evgeni Ketov (Rachinsky)
Konstantin Panov 2 goals in the game.
Atlant Mytischy 4-1 SKA St. Petersburg
0-1 Sergei Peretyagin (Babenko)
1-1 Sergei Mozyakin (Bulis, Johansson)
2-1 Esa Pirnes (Mozyakin, Leschev) PP1
3-1 Dmitri Vlasenkov (Semenov, Korolyuk)
4-1 Anton Lazarev (Bumagin, Boikov)
Sibir 2-4 Barys Astana
0-1 Kevin Dallman
0-2 Kevin Dallman (Glazachev)
1-2 Denis Tyurin (Muratov) PP
1-3 Branislav Mezei (Belyaev, A. Koreshkov)
2-3 Denis Tyurin (Muratov)
2-4 Evgeni Fadeev (Spiridonov)
2 more goals for Kevin Dallman, that is seven for the year.
HK MVD 2-5 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
0-1 Aleksei Kudashov (Anikeenko) PP
0-2 Aleksander Galimov (Anikeenko)
0-3 Vitaly Anikeenko (Churilov)
1-3 Mikhail Fedoseyev (Kokarev) SH
1-4 Dmitri Semin (Rudenko, Guskov)
1-5 Aleksander Guskov (Rudenko, Vasiliev) SH
2-5 Aleksei Ugarov (Derlyuk, Tsvetkov) PP
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CSKA Moscow 3-2 Dynamo Moscow
1-0 Petr Schastlivy (Saprykin, But)
1-1 Daniil Markov (Denisov) PP
1-2 Alex Badyukov (Landry)
2-2 Denis Parshin PP
3-2 Aleksander Suglobov (Walberg)
Vityaz 0-2 Dynamo Minsk
0-1 Viktor Andryuschenko (Muir) PP
0-2 Andrei Mikhailev (Platt)
Spartak Moscow 5-1 Dynamo Riga
1-0 Sergei Akimov (Lewandowski)
2-0 Alex Akifev (Akimov, Lewandowski)
3-0 Ivan Baranka 1(Radivojevic, Lyamin) PP
4-0 Eduard Lewandowski 3 (Drozdetsky) SH
4-1 Mark Hartigan (Sorokins, Nizhivy) PP
5-1 Maksim Rybin (Upper)
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Traktor 1-3 Metallurg Mg
1-0 Pierre Dagenais (Nikolishin)
1-1 Jan Marek (Atyushov)
1-2 Aleksei Simakov (Kaigorodov, Marek)
1-3 Jan Marek (Simakov, Kaigorodov)
Jagr connects twice to help Avangard win four in a row.
Spartak Moscow 2-4 Dynamo Moscow
1-0 Aleksander Drozdetsky (Upper)
1-1 Maksim Petushko (Landry) SH
2-1 Maksim Rybin
2-2 Eric Landry (Vyshedkevich, Badyukov)
2-3 Dmitri Afanasenkov (Nepryaev, Rylov) PP
2-4 Aleksei Zhitnik 3 PP Video
CSKA Moscow 8-3 Dynamo Minsk
1-0 Oleg Saprykin (But, Misharin)
2-0 Alex Tertyschny (Ternavsky)
3-0 Ivan Khomutov (Parshin, Shirokov)
4-0 Anton But (Saprykin, Schastlivy)
4-1 Aleksei Strakhov (Krasotkin)
4-2 Jeff Ulmer (Clymer, Giuliano)
5-2 Ivan Khomutov (Shirokov) PP
6-2 Mika Hannula (Skugarev)
6-3 Viktor Andryuschenko (Strakhov)
7-3 Maksim Goncharev (Suglobov, Tertyschny)
8-3 Oleg Saprykin (Kuhtinov, Kulemin)
Vityaz 2-3so Dynamo Riga
1-0 Aren Spaylo (Golts, Walser)
1-1 Mark Hartigan (Sorokins)
1-2 Marcel Hossa (Novak, Ellison) PP
2-2 Aren Spaylo (Sapozhkov, Megalinsky)
2-3 Aleksander Nizhivy SOG
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