“Torpedo” suffered the first defeat in the new KHL season from “Ak Bars”
KAZAN, 16 Sep – Kazan’s Ak Bars defeated Nizhny Novgorod’s Torpedo in a regular season match of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
The meeting in Kazan ended with a strong-willed victory for the ice hosts with a score of 4:3 (0:0, 2:2, 2:1). The hosts scored goals from Dmitry Katelevsky (28th minute), Dmitry Yashkin (35), Kirill Semenov (44) and Stanislav Galiev (53). Maxim Letunov (22), Andrey Belevich (26) and Anton Silaev (52) scored for the guests.
Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)
September 16, 2023 • starts at 17:00
Completed
AK BarsRussia4 : 3
Torpedo NNRussia27:55 • Dmitry Katelevsky
(Nikita Dynyak, Christian Henkel)
34:07 • Dmitry Yashkin
(Nikita Lyamkin, Vadim Shipachev)
43:08 • Kirill Semenov
(Nikita Evseev)
52:57 • Stanislav Galiev
(Vadim Shipachev, Nikita Lyamkin)
21:02 • Maxim Letunov
(Nikolai Kovalenko, Nikita Artamonov)
25:43 • Andrey Belevich
(Anton SilayevMaxim Letunov)
51:24 • Anton Silayev
(Alexander Darin, Andrey Belevich)
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Ak Bars forward Vadim Shipachev gave two assists and broke Sergei Mozyakin’s record for points in the KHL regular championships. The Kazan forward has 758 points (239 goals + 519 assists), Mozyakin has 756 points (351+405).
The Kazan team is in second place in the Eastern Conference standings with 10 points. Torpedo (10 points) suffered its first defeat of the season and retained first position in the West.