The Weekend Is a Blur

To know me is to, well, know that I loathe projects involving work on, in or around my house. Heck take a walk to a library, where there are more than 300,000 better things to do in there alone.

But I save a few weekends a year for work. This past one was one of them. Permit me to use this as a way to say I had no time to post on Sunday. But I am giving you a double shot of KHL today with games of Sunday and today. There were no games scheduled on Saturday.



It is nice to see that the KHL is putting together a daily roundup online and as well as a highlights package on their YouTube channel. It is a great way to see the differences in that league versus what we have grown up with in North America. The leagues in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic and such would be well ahead of the game if they had seen fit to offer English language highlights to attract people to their teams and top players.

Look, all it takes is for someone in a booth to watch the highlights and offer quick commentary in English, French, Spanish, German and the numerous languages spoken across the former Soviet republics. The NHL's website comes with a number of language options, and it is not to sell the game to the locals, but to those abroad who want to take in the NHL experience.

So kudos to the KHL for taking this step, one that its elders in Sweden and Finland should have done, and much earlier, too.

Sunday's roundup is here. If you are scoring at home, Spartak Moscow goalie Jeff Glass is the man of the hour and the week with his second shutout in as many games. His latest effort came Sunday in a 5-0 victory over Slovan Bratislava. Glass is in his fifth KHL season, having spent five seasons in the AHL with the Binghamton Senators. He played his juniors at Kootenay in the Western Hockey League. Glass has been selected as the goaltender of the week.

Sunday's scores
Avangard Omsk Region 5, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2
Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 4, Atlant Moscow Region 1
SKA St. Petersburg 6, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 4
Barys Astana 10, Severstal Cherepovets 1
Traktor Chelyabinsk 4, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 3
Ak Bars Kazan 4, Salavat Yulaev Ufa 3 SO
Metallurg Magnitogorsk 5, Vityaz Chekov 4
Dynamo Moscow 4, Neftekhimik Niznehkamsk 0
Spartak Moscow 5, Slovan Bratislava 0
CSKA Moscow 2, Dinamo Minsk 1 OT
Donbass Donetsk 3, Lev Prague 2 OT
Dinamo Riga 5, Medvescak Zagreb 1

Monday's scores
Metallurg Novokuznetsk 3, Amur Khabarovsk 1
Sibir Novosibirsk Region 3, Admiral Vladivostok 2

UPDATE: Monday's roundup is here.

The standings are here.