Recent games involving CSKA Moscow have become extremely high-scoring. Trying to end their losing streak and emerge from the crisis, the team is increasingly forcing the pace, playing in a highly attacking manner on the ice. This approach does not produce the desired effect, but the coaching staff s... Show more

Clashes between the teams have been quite intense for many years and often become significant. At the same time, there is one trend that has been continuing for a very long time. On their home ice, the “red-and-whites” consistently fail to achieve a convincing result. Spartak Moscow have not won in ... Show more

Head-to-head meetings between the teams often take place in a fairly uncompromising and hard-fought battle. The intensity is also confirmed by the rather high number of goals scored. In six of the last seven meetings, the opponents have scored at least four goals. Moreover, this trend is fully consi... Show more

We have virtually no doubt that Vityaz Balashikha will manage to seize the initiative from the leader of the “East” for a while. Nevertheless, the pronounced instability of the “bogatyrs” makes it impossible to consider any positive outcome for Pavel Desyatkov’s charges in their matchup with an extr... Show more