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Arrival and Departure in the KH

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

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Vadim Shipachyov Closes in on Some Major KHL Records

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

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How I met Wladislaw Alexandrowitsch Tretjak (Both in English & German)

Back in 2017, the IIHF World Championship was held in Paris and Cologne. As I was working in Cologne at the time, I took the opportunity and sacrificed 3 weeks of my annual leave to work as a volunteer at the World Championships. I applied to the transportation service and was soon accepted. Our job

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The RISE of DEMIDOV

Ivan Demidov who was the Montreal Canadiens’ 2024 NHL 1st round pick this past June, made his KHL debut for SKA Saint Petersburg on September 5, 2024. Lots of talk has been built around Demidov following up one year behind phenom Michkov who starts his 1st NHL season this year with the Philadelphia Flyers. Many

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