Continental Hockey League (KHL) - The first KHL round has seen an interesting match in Kazan, where local Ak Bars challenged Jagr\'s Avangard Omsk. Avangard has been completely revamped during the summer as they had 21 new players in order to get by the disappointing 07-08 season, while Ak Bars kept the core of the team, being more concentrated in adding some quality imports to their rosters. The Kazan team had many not available players, a fact that allowed head coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov to dress more youngsters than usual. (Detailed recap by Alessandro Seren Rosso of RussianProspects.com)
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