There was a time when Spartak Moscow were one of the giants of Russian and European hockey. Through the Soviet era, Spartak, sponsored by various trade unions, were always the “people’s team,” fierce rivals of the army men of CSKA Moscow and the KGB’s Dynamo club. While they never enjoyed the success of mighty CSKA, […]
Red-and-White Renaissance? Read More »
Welcome back hockey fans! Welcome to Week 8 of our news from around the world of hockey and around the league. Can you believe we are already into the 2nd weekend of the hockey season? Well we have lots to get to, so let’s jump right in. The news from around the league this week:
THE CAT’S Weekly Update – October 23, 2024 Read More »
For the KHL’s lone Kazakh club, 2024-25 has already been a miserable slog, and the campaign is only a quarter over. We wrote about the firing of head coach David Nemirovsky from Barys Astana here just a few weeks ago, when the team was 1-5 – the club eventually decided to go with a veteran
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Welcome back hockey fans! Welcome to Week 7 of our news from around the world of hockey and around the league. We have lots to get to, so let’s jump right in. Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? Then remember to tune in each week to get all the latest news in the world of hockey. For more
THE CAT’S Weekly Update – October 16, 2024 Read More »
Bobby Hull has been widely regarded as one of the greatest hockey players of all time. Unfortunately as generations pass, legends of before become lesser known among the newer fans of hockey who have never seen them play and only hear the stories of beforehand . It’s what have you done lately not what was
The legendary Golden Jet: Bobby Hull Read More »
This past spring saw some good news – sort of – for Lokomotiv Yarovslavl. The club from the banks upper Volga, best known for the tragedy of September 7th, 2011, made its return to the Gagarin Cup Finals for the first time since the KHL’s inaugural season of 2008-09. On that earlier occasion Lokomotiv were
Edmonton Oilers Connections Help Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Lead the KHL Early Read More »
Welcome back hockey fans! Welcome to Week 6 of our news from around the world of hockey and around the league. We have lots to get to, so let’s jump right in. Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? Then remember to tune in each week to get all the latest news in the world of hockey. For more
THE CAT’S Weekly Update – October 9, 2024 Read More »
Welcome back hockey fans! Welcome to Week 5 of our news from around the world of hockey and around the league. We have lots to get to, so let’s jump right in. Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? Then remember to tune in each week to get all the latest news in the world of hockey. For more
THE CAT’S Weekly Update – October 2, 2024 Read More »
We’re about three weeks into the 2024-25 KHL season at this point, which means that the big picture, though still very blurry, is starting to sharpen up a little bit – especially for those teams that are off to inauspicious starts… And NHL pre-season preparations are also in full swing now, meaning that players without
Arrival and Departure in the KH Read More »
At some point in the quite-near future, two major individual records are going to fall in Russia’s KHL, and they’re going to fall to the same man. Vadim Shipachyov (or Shipachev) is 37 now, and his last couple of seasons at Ak Bars have seen a fairly significant drop-off in his once-prodigious point totals. This
Vadim Shipachyov Closes in on Some Major KHL Records Read More »