KHL 15 September 2018

15 September 2018

Vityaz Podolsk vs. Slovan Bratislava

Slovan are going on the road, and they are doing it properly. The trip to the outskirts of Moscow will continue towards Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Shanghai after that:

4G131 VKO 1040-1200 BTS SU95 (14/09/18, ferry flt)

4G132 BTS 1330-1645 VKO SU95 (14/09/18)

KHL 14 September 2018

14 September 2018

Vityaz Podolsk vs. Jokerit Helsinki

AY7505 LED 2350-xxxx(+1) SVO A319 (12/09/18)

AY7506 SVO 2130-xxxx HEL A319 (14/09/18)

Salavat Yulaev Ufa vs. Ak Bars Kazan

YC9725 DME 2330-0120(+1) UFA A320 (12/09/18)

Sibir Novosibirsk vs. Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk

4G138 OVB 2300-xxxx UFA SU95 (14/09/18)

Barys Astana vs. Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod

YC9623 UFA xxxx-0310 TSE A320 (13/09/18)

YC9624 TSE 0000-xxxx OVB A320 (15/09/18)

SKA St. Petersburg vs. Spartak Moscow

YC9792 LED 2330-xxxx DME A320 (14/09/18)

Dinamo Minsk vs. HC Sochi

YC9621 DME xxxx-0010 MSQ (13/09/18)

YC9622 MSQ 2300-0110(+1) AER (14/09/18)

KHL 13 September 2018

13 September 2018

Traktor Chelyabinsk vs. Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg

MMM9672 OVB 2330-2330 CEK A320 VQ-BIS (11/09/18)

MMM9673 CEK 0115-0145 SVX A320 VQ-BIS (14/09/18)

CSKA Moscow vs. Severstal Cherepovets

BT7702 BTS 2300-0235(+1) SVO B735 (11/09/18)

Slovan Bratislava vs. HC Dynamo Moscow

4G135 RIX 2350-0030(+1) BTS SU95 (11/09/18)

4G136 BTS 2300-xxxx (+1) VKO SU95 (13/09/18)

KHL 12 September 2018

12 September 2018

SKA St. Petersburg vs. Jokerit Helsinki

Unbeaten Jokerit arrived in St. Petersburg for what looks like their first proper test of the season - and that off the back of four wins in the first four matches of the new season. SKA in the meantime have had a mixed start to the season, but with a derby against Jokerit up next, they will surely have enough motivation. Their most recent encounter in the pre-season was feisty enough to say the least.

AY7503 MSQ 2350-0115(+1) LED A319 OH-LVL (10/09/18)

AY7505 LED 2350-0115(+1) SVO A319 OH-LVL (12/09/18)

Avangard Omsk vs. Ak Bars Kazan

It is becoming a repetitive theme already, but Balashikha is becoming the new Omsk this season, so Ak Bars have had to travel to the West for this one match before heading East again, to face Salavat Yulaev on 14 September:

YC9726 KZN 1100-1320 DME A320 (11/09/18)

YC9725 DME 2330-0120(+1) UFA A320 (12/09/18)

Barys Astana vs. Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk

Last season's suprise package from the Eastern Conference has had a tricky start to the new season, but also Barys is currently still on a negative record. One team will get it right in Astana, but the way things ran so far, one would expect this to be the hosts:

GZP137 VKO 2300-0210(+1) TSE SU95 (10/09/18)

KHL 11 September 2018

11 September 2018

CSKA Moscow vs. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

It is a strangely short trip for Loko, playing games in Bratislava and Moscow on the same trip. After a win at the Ondrej Nepala Arena, they are in for a slightly bigger task in Moscow against last season's finalists CSKA:

YC9524 BTS 2100-0030(+1) DME A320 (09/09/18)

Dinamo Riga vs. HC Dynamo Moscow

One last home game for Riga's finest before they embark on the dreaded long trip the far-eastern trojka of Kunlun, Amur and Admiral. They are hosting HC Dynamo which has played four matches already, but yet only recorded one victory, against Sibir Novosibirsk. Dinamo Riga in the meantime may have surprise the public a bit, winning away against Magnitka before beating the same Sibir outfit at home:

4G135 VKO 1600-1720 RIX SU95 (10/09/18)

4G135 RIX xxxx-0030(+1) BTS SU95 (11/09/18)

Slovan Bratislava vs. Severstal Cherepovets

Traveling around the Western parts of the league, Severstal rather surprisingly have gone with Air Baltic as their transport, a rare choice for a Russian team not to travel on a Russian airline:

BT7701 RIX xxxx-2155 BTS B735 (09/09/18)

BT7702 BTS 2300-xxxx(+1) SVO B735 (11/09/18)

Sibir Novosibirsk vs. Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg

Just as last season (albeit only for two trips), Avto is traveling with the fancy looking A320 VQ-BIS that is still carrying the same livery as when it was still destined for the Saudi SAAD Group:

MMM9671 SVX 1420-1800 OVB A320 VQ-BIS (10/09/18)

MMM9672 OVB xxxx-2330 CEK A320 VQ-BIS (11/09/18)

KHL 10 September 2018

10 September 2018

Dinamo Minsk vs. Jokerit Helsinki

After three home matches and as many victories, Jokerit now take their show onto the road, off to Minsk first, before they head for their "derby" away at SKA St. Petersburg:

AY7501 HEL 1500-1615 MSQ A319 OH-LVL (09/09/18)

AY7503 MSQ 2350-0115(+1) LED A319 OH-LVL (10/09/18)

Avangard Omsk vs. Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk

It's Balashikha instead of Omsk Arena for Avangard this season, but this does not seem to hamper performances so far. In terms of travel, this now means for oppositions that they may have to take a one-off trip from the Middle East to Moscow. The journey will go on to Astana after that, which obviously would have been a lot closer from Omsk:

GZP138 NBC 1030-1200 VKO SU95 (09/09/18)

GZP137 VKO 2300-0210(+1) TSE SU95 (10/09/18)

SKA St. Petersburg vs. HC Sochi

The league giants from St. Petersburg are looking for a bit more luck after two rather surprising defeats early on this season. They are hosting HC Sochi, which has just embarked on its first road trip of this season which will take them to St. Petersburg, Podolsk and Minsk:

YC9422 AER 1512-1735 LED SU95 (10/09/18)

KHL 9 September 2018

9 September 2018

Slovan Bratislava vs. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

Meant to be a fairly routine win in Bratislava, the game turned a bit nasty towards the end for Yaroslavl's finest. Czech defender Jakub Nakladal picked a major penalty for boarding and at the same time got himself involved in a fight with Kyle Chipchura from Slovan. Their next game will be away at CSAK Moscow, where they will head on board of a Yamal Airbus A320:

YC9524 BTS 2100-0030(+1) DME A320 (09/09/18)

Metallurg Magnitogorsk vs. Kunlun Red Star

SVR9429 DME 0030-0240 MQF A320 (08/09/18)

SVR9430 MQF 0440-0705 DME A320 (08/09/18, ferry flt)

Dinamo Riga vs. Severstal Cherepovets

After a win in Riga, Severstal travels to Bratislava for a game at Slovan, using a Boeing 737-500 of Latvian national carrier Air Baltic:

BT7701 RIX 2100-2155 BTS B735 (09/09/18)

KHL 8 September 2018

8 September 2018

Dinamo Riga vs. Sibir Novosibirsk

Initially apparently planned to be flying with one of the rather newly delivered Embraer EMB-170s, Sibir finally turned up in the Latvian capital with a fairly old Airbus A319 of S7 Airlines. They left Riga beaten and on a Nordstar Boeing 737-800:

SBI8013 DME 0005-0040 RIX A319 VP-BTW (07/09/18)

SBI8014 RIX 0315-0445 DME A319 VP-BTW (07/09/18, ferry flt)

TYA9301 DME 1815-2000 RIX B738 VQ-BDW (08/09/18, ferry flt)

TYA9302 RIX 2200-0630(+1) OVB B738 VQ-BDW (08/09/18)

SKA St. Petersburg vs. Salavat Yulaev Ufa

After a big win away in Kazan to start the season, SKA has now added another loss to the disappointments of the young new season. Visitor Salavat Yulaev Ufa left St. Petersburg on their way home after the opening road trip with Ural Airlines:

SVR9771 IAR xxxx-0035 LED A320 (07/09/18)

SVR9504 LED 2100-xxxx(+1) UFA A320 (08/09/18)

KHL 7 September 2018

7 September 2018

HC Sochi vs. Amur Khabarovsk

The Tigers from the Far East are onto part two of the first road trip of the season, flying from the Finnish capital was further south, to the Black Sea shores in Sochi, where they will face HC Sochi at the Bolshoi Ice Dome before heading home:

5N9310 HEL 1100-1445 AER B735 (06/09/18)

Spartak Moscow vs. Kunlun Red Star

Kunlun had a rough start of the season, outplayed by an exciting Jokerit side in Helsinki on Monday and spending even more time in the West now. It is somewhat hard to believe that the team has not spent one day in China since the beginning of the pre-season in July. But in fact, Kunlun has had camps in Latvia, Czech Republic and in Sochi before staying St. Petersburg and Finland right before the start of the season. They will move on to Magnitka on the first part of their long journey home:

5N9120 AER 1600-1830 DME B735 (06/09/18)

SVR9429 DME 0030-0240 MQF A320 (08/09/18)

SVR9430 MQF 0440-0705 DME A320 (08/09/18, ferry flt)

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod vs. Vityaz Podolsk

Vityaz' task away at Nagorny Arena will not be easy, as surely the home side Torpedo will be keen to build on the surprise victory over SKA the other day. Vityaz has recored an away in Nizhnekamsk first up, so they have points in the bank early and even more so, from an away at what was a difficult fortress to conquer last season.

YC9428 GOJ 2300-0005(+1) DME SU95 (07/09/18)

KHL 6 September 2018

6 September 2018

HC Dynamo Moscow vs. Sibir Novosibirsk

The next part of Sibir's early season road sees the team play HC Dynamo and then head on to Riga:

SBI8013 DME 0005-0040 RIX E170 (07/09/18)

Metallurg Magnitogorsk vs. CSKA Moscow

The last game of the early road trip for CSKA sees the finalists from last season battling it out with Metallurg Magnitogorsk, who surprisingly got beaten by Dinamo Riga the other day:

YC9722 SVX 2255-2355 MQF A320 (04/09/18)

Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg vs. Slovan Bratislava

It has been a tough trip so far for the Slovak team in the KHL, with two defeats from two matches, away in Magnitogorsk and Chelyabinsk. They might want to get their act together, before they get back on the Gazprom Sukhoi and travel home to Bratislava:

4G132 CEK 2330-0000(+1) SVX SU95 (04/09/18)

4G131 SVX xxxx-0040(+1) BTS SU95 (06/09/18)

KHL 5 September 2018

5 September 2018

Jokerit Helsinki vs. Amur Khabarovsk

Having scored as many goals as rarely ever in matches in recent seasons, Jokerit are waiting get into the act with Amur with a smile on their faces. Amur for their part, have lost their first game on the Western road trip away at Spartak Moscow, so they will be keen to make up for this:

5N9309 SVO 1230-1435 HEL B735 (04/09/18)

5N9310 HEL 1100-1445 AER B735 (06/09/18)

5N9120 AER 1600-1830 DME B735 (06/09/18, ferry flt)

HC Sochi vs. Kunlun Red Star

A loss in their season opener means that both teams are still desperate to get going this term. Sochi at least got to grab one point for a shootout loss against Admiral, but the Bolshoi faithful would surely have hoped for more against the opposition from the Far East. Kunlun had a bright start against Jokerit, but was pegged back during a second and third periods, where the Chinese could not quite close the floodgates against an inspired Jokerit:

SVR3224 HEL 0025-0355 AER A320 (04/09/18)

SVR9422 AER 2335-0150(+1) DME A319 (05/09/18)

Ak Bars Kazan vs. Vityaz Podolsk

The jury is probably still out on Ak Bars, following a humiliating loss against championship favourites SKA and a laboured 2-0 win over Dinamo Minsk in the second match of the season. Vityaz meanwhile had to survive an even tighter match, winning by the smallest of small margins away at Neftekhimik, 1-0 thanks to a goal from Nikita Komarov very early in the third period:

YC9427 NBC xxxx-xxxx KZN SU95 (03/09/18)

YC9427 KZN 2300-2350 GOJ SU95 (05/09/18)

Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk vs. Barys Astana

The Kazakh team once again flies from game to game with Sunkar Air and one of their old Boeing 737-300s:

KAM 1170 TSE 1600-1500 NBC B733 UP-B3717 (04/09/18)

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod vs. Dinamo Minsk

A consequence of Torpedo's shift back to the Eastern Conference can be seen in the layout of the road trips for the visitors already. The Minsk team will travel significantly further East after the game at Nagorny:

BRU8741 KZN 0001-0040 GOJ B735 EW-250PA (04/09/18)
BRU8741 GOJ 2330-0030(+1) NBC B735 EW-250PA (05/09/18)

KHL 4 September 2018

4 September 2018

Severstal Cherepovets vs. Salavat Yulaev Ufa

The Green Men left it really late in their first game in Moscow against HC Dynamo, scoring two goals in the last six minutes of regulation time. They finally won the game in overtime thanks to a goal from Artyom Sergeyev. Ufa then traveled on to Cherepovets, where they will take on Severstal, who beat Sibir in their first match of the season, also by 3-2 goals, but in regulation time.

YC9727 DME 2255-0020(+1) CEE A320 (02/09/18)

Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg vs. CSKA Moscow

Two days after a fairly easy task at home against Dinamo Riga, a sterner opposition will turn up. 2018 finalists CSKA Moscow arrive off the back of a convincing result away in Chelyabinsk, where they won 3-0 and Ilya Sorokin had his first shutout of the season, albeit only from 16 shots.

YC9721 CEK 2212-2239 SVX A320 (02/09/18)

YC9722 SVX 2255-2355 MQF A320 (04/09/18)

Metallurg Magnitogorsk vs. Dinamo Riga

Part two of the short but hefty away trip to the Ural takes the KHL's Latvian team to Magnitogorsk. The hosts will surely look to build on their performance on Sunday against Slovan Bratislava, a match they won 5-1:

BT7702 SVX 2205-2250 MQF B735 YL-BBE (02/09/18)

Traktor Chelyabinsk vs. Slovan Bratislava

Match two of the regular season should be way easier than the first one for Traktor. Slovan can not be rated quite as highly as CSKA. Slovan for their part are on a tough trip first up, which may quickly cause some disappointment in a team that is widely expected to struggle this season:

4G132 MQF 2145-2230 CEK SU95 RA-89032 (02/09/18)