After failing to crack Predators, KHL goal-scoring champ Moses likely headed...
One of the more intriguing free agents coming over from the KHL this off-season was Steve Moses, the 26-year-old sniper who tore up the primarily Russian league in 2014-15 and set the league’s...
View ArticleWatch KHLer make one-footed, no-look pass for incredible goal
The fake wraparound to no-look pass has become a go-to move for skillful playmakers this season, but center Alexander Rybakov, who plays for the KHL’s Traktor Chelyabinsk, put a new spin on the fake...
View ArticleAlexander Semin clears waivers, could return to the KHL
Alexander Semin has officially been demoted to the AHL after being placed on waivers Monday by the Montreal Canadiens. Semin, 31, is coming off of a lower-body injury that has kept him out of the past...
View ArticleWatch KHL goaltender make unbelievable desperation glove save
Goaltender Nikita Bespalov didn’t have his name called at the NHL draft, he’s never played a game on an international stage and for much of his career he’s been a minor league or backup netminder. But...
View ArticleKHL expanding to China in 2016-17, South Korea could be next
The first expansion team for the 2016-17 season has been awarded, but it won’t be playing in Las Vegas or Quebec City. The KHL announced Monday the league will have a team from Beijing joining the...
View ArticleIlya Kovalchuk goes berserk, crosschecks, punches opponents in wild outburst
When remembering Ilya Kovalchuk’s NHL tenure, it’s easy to recall the incredible wrist shot, the highlight-reel goals and the size and speed of a superstar. What some may not remember, though, is that...
View ArticleRussian junior player breaks record for fastest hockey goal of all-time
Viktor Shakhvorostov accomplished something only Barry Allen could dream of on Friday night. Shakhvorostov, 20, is a left winger in MHL, a junior feeder league of the KHL. He pulled off the utterly...
View ArticleUpdate: KHL team fined $9,200 after bananas thrown at Edwin Hedberg post-game
The KHL is investigating an incident that occurred Wednesday when Edwin Hedberg, who plays for Croatian club Medvescak Zagreb, had bananas thrown at him by someone attending the game following his...
View ArticleProspect Need to Know: Jeremy Lauzon has Rouyn-Noranda flying
It’s home stretch time in the CHL as trade deadlines have passed and all the newbies are settling in to their new uniforms. In 2016 draft news, the NHL’s Central Scouting bureau released its mid-term...
View ArticleWatch former Senator Stephane Da Costa score highlight-reel goal in KHL
Former Ottawa Senators prospect Stephane Da Costa has been playing for the KHL’s CSKA Moscow for the past two seasons, and the 26-year-old has turned into one of the league’s premier offensive players....
View ArticleKHL skills competition features flaming stick, trick nets and Robin Hood
Over the past few all-star weekends, the NHL has attempted to have their shootout competition mirror the NBA’s dunk contest. Players at the skills competition have used props, judges have doled out...
View ArticleKHL netminder snaps, ejected after losing it on player standing in front of...
KHL goaltender Georgi Gelashvili hasn’t come anywhere close to making his way over to the NHL. The 32-year-old has spent the entirety of his career playing in Russia and Kazakhstan, and he’s far...
View ArticleRussian prospect Alexander Orekhov, 16, passes away after puck to the neck
Tragedy has struck the Russian U18 league as Metallurg Novokuznetsk captain Alexander Orekhov has passed away after being hit in the neck with a puck during a Jan. 14 game. Orekhov, 16, was struck with...
View ArticleIlya Kovalchuk ‘removed’ from SKA St. Petersburg after post-season loss
SKA St. Petersburg is coming down hard on captain Ilya Kovalchuk after the team dropped its first game of the playoffs in overtime. St. Petersburg coach Maxim Sokolov announced Monday that Kovalchuk,...
View ArticleGordie Howe hat trick alert! Sergey Kalinin pulls it off for Devils
Is there anything more hockey than the Gordie Howe hat trick? A goal, an assist and a fight is one solid night’s work and New Jersey Devils rookie Sergey Kalinin is the latest NHLer to pull off the...
View ArticleIlya Kovalchuk stripped of SKA captaincy, benched for two more games
Ilya Kovalchuk was benched for the second game of SKA St. Petersburg’s first-round playoff series after he turned it what was deemed a disappointing effort in the opening contest, but his KHL club...
View ArticleWatch spear to the groin that got KHL player ejected from playoff game
One player who benefited from Ilya Kovalchuk’s benching in St. Petersburg was New York Rangers prospect Pavel Buchnevich. With Kovalchuk out, the 20-year-old winger got his first taste of playoff...
View ArticleSo what is actually going on with Ilya Kovalchuk?
Can you imagine an NHL team adding Ilya Kovachuk to its lineup for a playoff run this season? It wouldn’t be the most surprising move ever made by the powerful left winger, but it would be quite the...
View ArticleIlya Kovalchuk scratched for remainder of KHL playoffs, could terminate deal...
Those hoping to know the fate of former NHL all-star Ilya Kovlachuk shouldn’t expect a resolution until May at the earliest. Kovalchuk, 32, has spent the past three seasons of his career with the KHL’s...
View ArticleProspect Need to Know: Sebastian Aho is soaring to the top
The NHL trade deadline had plenty of ramifications in the prospect world, with a slew of draft selections going to new teams and some actual players changing organizations as well. One situation to...
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