KHL 3 September 2018

3 September 2018

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod vs. SKA St. Petersburg

Arriving from what promises to be a feisty start into the season in Tatarstan, SKA travels to the next "hell house", Nagorny Arena in Niznny Novgorod. From there, the journey will take the army men back home after a rather unusually short two-game road trip to start off the season in Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod. 

FV4201 VKO 1930-2030 KZN A319 (01/09/18, ferry flt)

FV4202 KZN 2130-2215 GOJ A319 (01/09/18)

FV4202 GOJ 2330-0125(+1) LED A319 (03/09/18)

By Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia (Rossiya (Sports Livery), VQ-BCP, Airbus A319-111) [CC BY-SA 2.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

HC Sochi vs. Admiral Vladivostok

Having spent most of the pre-season out in the West, Admiral also kicks off regular season proceedings fairly far west, playing the first match on the shores of the Black Sea in Sochi's Bolshoi Ice Dome:

SVR9421 DME 1935-2200 AER A320 (03/09/18, ferry flt)

SVR9422 AER 2335-0150(+1) DME A320 (03/09/18)

Jokerit Helsinki vs. Kunlun Red Star

After a pre-season tournament in St. Petersburg, Kunlun travels to Helsinki straight away, without even returning to China. In fact, since assembling the squad in Riga, Latvia in July, Kunlun will stay on the road for some time until returning to its origin country in September:

SVR3224 HEL 0125-0355 AER A320 (04/09/18)

More about the Kunlun pre-season activities here:

http://hcredstar.ru/en/news/zdravstvuy-riga-druzhnoy-kompaniey-nachinaem-kampaniyu/

Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk vs. Vityaz Podolsk

Yamal Airlines' newly expanded fleet of Sukhoi Superjets will see considerable amounts of KHL flying this season. Vityaz Podolsk from the outskirts of Moscow is one of the teams to use them, in turn also changing its "home" airport from Vnukovo to nearby Domodedovo:

YC9427 DME 1500-1700 NBC SU95 (02/09/18)
YC9427 NBC xxxx-xxxx KZN SU95 (03/09/18)

Ak Bars Kazan vs. Dinamo Minsk

The KHL's belarussian representation is starting the new season on the road, away in Tatarstan against 2018 champions Ak Bars Kazan. Together with Opening Cup opponents SKA St. Petersburg, Ak Bars will become one of the first teams to have played two matches in the new season. Just like SKA, Dinamo will then travel on to Nizhny Novgorod, where Torpedo has been shifted from the Western to the Eastern Conference.

BRU8741 MSQ 1530-1730 KZN B735 (02/09/18)
BRU8741 KZN 2300-2350 GOJ B735 (03/09/18)