The Avangard Omsk ice rink switch that was announced by the KHL recently has now had further consequences. In fact, 13 regular season matches have now been shifted around the calendar to optimize the logistics, with Avangard now playing some 2200 kms away from home. Six of these matches involve Avangard, while seven others have been moved to get a schedule that fits all purposes. The first match that was moved was the one between Salavat Yulaev Ufa and Dinamo Riga on 3 October 2018, which will now be played in January 2019.
KHL road trips are often optimized in terms of distance. Teams will travel to certain regions, where they will cover three or four (rarely five) away destinations within the same trip. Avangard's visitors so far would have had a game in Novosibirsk and one more mid-eastern destination along the way. Notably, two teams from this region have been moved to the VHL in recent summers. Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk and Metallurg Novokuznezk provided good options for the organization of road trips, their respective sporting powers not withstanding of course.
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