It's been in the news for a while: Roman Lyubimov got into a major quarrel with his coach (with a Radulov-esque public tweet), packed his things and left for Tver, his hometown.
It's been in the news for a while: Roman Lyubimov got into a major quarrel with his coach (with a Radulov-esque public tweet), packed his things and left for Tver, his hometown.
West wins the Future Cup.
Thus West has won all 3 all-star games: Challenge Cup (MHL-A all-star game), Generation Cup (MHL-B all-star game), Future Cup (MHL U-18 all-star game)
West wins the Future Cup.
Thus West has won all 3 all-star games: Challenge Cup (MHL-A all-star game), Generation Cup (MHL-B all-star game), Future Cup (MHL U-18 all-star game)
yup, but they still think they have better players in the east)))
Play offs in MHL-A have started today, right now listening to the Red Army game (1:1 so far).
MHL - B - is an interesting situation, with the amount of overagers I thought, that Berdsk would cruise through the play offs, yet they ran into trouble with Kransoyarsk already (2:2 after 4 games) Oktan is impressive, still don't understand why noone drafted Abramov...
I don't get one thing about the play-outs - teams that have enough points so they can't end in one of the two last places even if they lose all remaining games - what's their motivation to win? They might as well not show up for the games and get an automatic 3-0 loss.
This is kind of similar to the current situation in the Russian football league - where during this season (and this season only) the 8 teams with most points after 30 rounds play in one group (for the championship), while the remaining 8 play in the other group (trying to avoid relegation). The "relegation group" teams have no chance to get beyond the 9th place (even if they have more points than the 8th placed team in the "championship group").
But all this is probably similar to a situation in a hockey league where even if there's only one group, however you have a specific number of points that guarantees you that even if you win all remaining games in regular season, you won't be getting to the playoffs, while if you lose every remaining game, there is still no chance you'll be endangered by ending on any of the relegation places in the standings. A "DMZ" of sorts.
I don't get one thing about the play-outs - teams that have enough points so they can't end in one of the two last places even if they lose all remaining games - what's their motivation to win? They might as well not show up for the games and get an automatic 3-0 loss.
I too don't get this play-out thing. They could've just taken 8 teams and made a reverse play-off. The best in points vs worst in best of 5 series, then the wining 4 teams are safe and the remaining 4 still battle to win their series and be safe while those 2 teams who lose both series are relegated. Instead they add still another 16 or so games to the schedule to all these teams...
heard the rumor today from one of the Allhockey posters, that Olimpia, Belie Tigry and Khimik may petition out of the MHL and join RHL.
I guess these cities simply want to play at senior level, right? I'm all for the return of the established hockey names like Olimpia and especially Khimik to senior hockey.
