Avangard broke the resistance of Metallurg in the game of the KHL championship

In one of the top matches on Sunday, September 13, in the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League, Avangard won a strong-willed victory over Magnitogorsk Metallurg - 3: 2 (in overtime). It's reported by sb.by.

In the course of the game, the Hawks conceded - 0: 2. However, they showed character and were able to change everything. On the goals of Daniil Vovchenko (7th minute) and Igor Nechaev (30), Avangard responded with three abandoned pucks. Their authors were Vasily Ponomarev (46), Dmitry Rashevsky (56) and Andrew Poturalski (62).

Belarusian defender of the steelworkers Danila Palivko did not score points on the goal plus pass system.

Metallurg suffered its first defeat in the new season. Earlier, the team on its ice twice beat the Khabarovsk “Amur” (4: 2, 2: 1, in overtime), and also at a party took over Kazan “Ak Bars” (3: 2, on the bullies).

The results of all meetings of the game day in the KHL: Siberia - Avtomobilist - 2:5, Avangard - Metallurg - 3:2 (in overtime), Neftekhimik - Admiral - 2:1, CSKA - Lokomotiv - 2:3.

Minsk “Dynamo”, which in the regular season 2026/2027 lost to Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo” (3: 4, in the bullies), “Shanghai Dregons” (3: 4, in overtime) and Moscow “Dynamo” (2: 3, in the bullies), the next match will be held tomorrow, September 14 in Togliatti against “Lada”. Then the “white and blue” will return home and take Novosibirsk “Siberia” (18 September) and “Automobileist” from Yekaterinburg (20 September).

According to the results of the regular championship 2025/2026, our squad, we recall, scored 88 points and finished on the second line in the table of the Western Conference immediately after the future champion – Yaroslavl Lokomotiv. At the stage of the 1/8 finals, the “teeth” won the series against Moscow teammates with a dry score of 4: 0, but in the quarterfinals, the Minsk Dynamovites lost four times to the Kazan “Ak Bars”. In the overall table of the Kontinental Hockey League, the white-blues took fifth place for the first time in history.