Showing posts with label Salavat Yulayev. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salavat Yulayev. Show all posts

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Finest In March (KHL)



The KHL has named the players who were the best of the month in four categories.

- The best goaltender of the month is Ivan Kasutin (Neftekhimik). The keeper played 12 games in March, and in three of these he kept a clean sheet. Overall, he conceded an average of just 1.29 goals per game and saved 95.7% of the shots he faced.

- The best defenseman of the month is Alexander Guskov (Lokomotiv). Heplayed in 13 games and scored four goals, one of which was a game-winner, made three assists and earned an efficiency rating of +7.

- The best attacker of the month is Alexander Radulov (Salavat Yulaev, pictured). In the 13 games he played this month, he scored five goals, including two game-winners, supplied 16 assists and achieved a rating of +12.

- The best rookie (i.e. a player born in 1987 or later, who has played no more than 20 top-level games in previous national tournaments) of the month is Konstantin Plaksin (Traktor). In his 7 games he supplied the assists for 3 goals, merited a rating of +2 and spent an average 24 minutes 53 seconds on the ice in each game.


http://en.khl.ru/news/2010/4/1/23825.html

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Salavat Superior: Alexander Radulov Piece To Gagarin Cup


IHF "Salavat superior again: KHL regular season winners want to erase last year’s failure", March 10, 2010

They captured the KHL regular season title for the second year in a row. But it’s not the time for celebration. There’s much work to do.

Memories of last year’s failure immediately pop up in people’s mind. Salavat Yulayev Ufa faced a hard reality check in the first round of the playoffs when the top seed was eliminated in the first round by 16th-seeded Avangard Omsk....

They clinched a playoff spot on the very last day of the regular season and that is already more than it was expected from Sykora’s squad. The difference in quality however can be illustrated by the fact that Salavat Yulayev’s Alexander Radulov and Patrick Thoresen almost had as many goals, 24, as Avtomobilist’s top scorer Alexander Gulyavtsev had points, 28.


Additional Reading: http://www.iihf.com/nc/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/salavat-superior-again.html