Shanghai Dragons defeated SKA at the start of the KHL

The Chinese hockey club Shanghai Dragons defeated the St. Petersburg hockey club SKA on September 6 in the FONBET away match of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) championship.

The game ended with a score 7:4 (2:2, 4:1, 1:1).

"Parker Fu and Nikita Popugaev scored for the Chinese team in the first period. At the beginning of the second 20th minute, Gage Quinney scored a goal, and later the hosts scored three more goals in 83 seconds through the efforts of Popugaev, Borna Rendulich and Max Ellis," Sport-Express reported.

Valentin Zykov, Mikhail Vorobyov, Nikolai Goldobin and Rocco Grimaldi scored their goals for SKA.

At the same time, 14 penalties were recorded for the entire game.

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The start of the tournament in Minsk with the participation of Metallurg, the renaming of Kunlun and the return of Hartley

On August 7, HC Kunlun Red Star announced a name change to Shanghai Dragons. After that, on August 13, it became known that the former head coach of the Canadian national team and a number of National Hockey League (NHL) clubs, 61-year-old Gerard Galla, would lead it.

Prior to that, on July 3, the KHL announced that the Chinese club would play its home matches at the SKA Arena in St. Petersburg next season. In the previous season, the club played at the Mytishchi Arena in the Moscow region.

On July 27, the St. Petersburg hockey club SKA, which plays in the KHL, changed its logo. In the updated version of the club's logo, the club's name is set against a blue-white-red star.

On June 2, HC SKA announced the resignation of Roman Rotenberg from the post of head coach of the team due to the lack of results. Igor Larionov, ex-coach of HC Torpedo from Nizhny Novgorod, became the new mentor of the team.

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