2021-22 KHL Continental Hockey League Regular Season Round 40
Beijing Kunlun Hongxing vs Ufa
2021.12.21 00:30
Medici Arena
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Three masters and two guests, the European tour ends with the year-end schedule
After a week-long offseason, Kunlun Hongxing's year-end schedule will officially open today. The Vanke Dragons first played against Ufa, Torpedo and Dynamo Minsk at the Medici Arena. Among them, Ufa and Minsk have each played once before, Kunlun Hongxing has lost both games, and Torpedo is a team that has never met before.
In the last two matches of the month, Kunlun Hongxing will embark on a European journey to Latvia and Finland. Riga Dinamo has continued its poor record this season, and is currently ranked first in the West, which is the key to achieving points for the Vanke Dragons. In the face of the powerful Joker, kunlun Hongxing team looks forward to replicating the feat of killing the vanguard in the final battle point of late 2020 and ending the year with victory
Face off to Ufa! The league's strongest defense is coming
Tonight, Kunlun Hongxing will be challenged at home by old rival Ufa. Ufa is currently the most defensive team in the league. In the last 39 rounds, they have conceded only 76 goals, the only team of all teams to concede more than 80 goals. Meanwhile, Ufa's main player, Metsola, has performed extremely well this season, averaging 93.7% per game to top the league's goalkeeper list.
In the past three games, Kunlun Hongxing team has performed well on the offensive end, scoring a total of ten goals in three games, including facing the same defensive leader Ma Gangcheng, Vanke Dragon's front line group firepower scored four goals in a single game. This battle against Ufa, let us expect the Kunlun Hongxing team to continue the previous offensive state, breaking the opponent's steel defense line.
Counterpart information
Ufa's record this season can be described as high and low, the first 7 rounds of the season all won the summit league, although the unbeaten golden body was broken by the northern steel blast, but in the subsequent game Ufa once again showed great strength, continued to continue the strong momentum of occasional defeats, and completed the Golden Ball in the game against the Joker in early October, ending the embarrassing record of the previous 6 years of unwinnable opponents at home.
However, the Ufa team's soaring momentum came to an abrupt end after entering November. Due to the discovery of a number of players in the team infected with the new crown virus, the game with the Joker on November 7 was directly awarded by the league. Since then, the Ufa team has lost to a number of weak league teams such as Amur and the Warriors, and has won only three of its ten games.
The poor record is directly related to the team's sluggish performance on the offensive end, with top scorer Maninin suffering a seven-game goal drought in a row, the team's scoring champion Grande in the middle of the month, and another offensive core, Shmelev, who scored only one point in the ninth round on November, and fell to the bottom. Meanwhile, Finnish coach Ramsa, who has coached Ufa for nearly four seasons, also suffered a crisis of confidence during this period, with it rumored that he would be replaced by assistant coach Kozlov after a four-game losing streak away to Amur.
Winter Olympic big name said
In the channel one cup national team match that just ended this week, the host Russia team wearing a retro suit played a good result of consecutive wins. And 28-year-old Ufa striker Kardagegin also made a wonderful appearance in the national team.
Growing up in the Russian youth system, Kardagen became a member of the KHL League's founding club, Medic, at the age of 18. A season before Medzic withdrew from the league, the 20-year-old Cadekin joined St. Petersburg as the youngest striker in the league's Grand Devil squad. For a season and a half, the little card contributed only 19 points to the team, and it was even difficult to get a playoff appearance. This forced him to switch to Lokomotiv in search of opportunities.
In the 2018-19 season, the 25-year-old Kardashian joined Ufa and entered the mature stage of his career. After scoring 20 points in a single season, he became a member of the national training team. Since then, the successful performance of the Ufa team has allowed Caddykin to enter the ranks of the league's top strikers. At present, Kardashian, who has already scored 8 goals and 15 assists, is making an impact on his first 40-point season.
At 1.95 meters tall, Kardashkin is a rare strong center in the KHL league, with a strong impact in front of the goal. Whether in the club team or the national team, the coaching staff will use him as a killer in the tough battle, and let him play a key role in the team's conversion of attack routines. At present, the possibility of Russia sending a "European version" of the national team to participate in the Beijing event still exists, and Kardykin's Olympic dream is also close at hand.
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