Lokomotiv will host the next match of the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League in Khabarovsk. Our sports portal gives a forecast for the meeting.
"Amur" Khabarovsk
The Far Eastern club is currently ranked eighth in the conference table. In 14 regular season matches, Vadim Epanchintsev's team scored 12 points. Amur held the previous meeting in the regular season on October 6 and beat HC Sochi with a score of 4 on its site:3. During the match, the hosts won with a difference of two goals, but allowed the opponent to win back the gap in the final period. Nevertheless, the Tigers snatched the victory in regular time thanks to Artem Alyaev's goal five minutes before the final siren. Amur ranks last in the East in terms of the number of abandoned pucks (25).
"Locomotive" I
The Yaroslavl club represents the Western Conference and is currently ranked fifth in the table. This season, Igor Nikitin's wards have played 15 matches and scored 19 points. However, the last game was unsuccessful for the railwaymen — they lost to Admiral in Vladivostok with a score of 2:3 B. After the opening period, the guests were leading in the score, and after the second they were already losing. Nikitin's team got away from defeat in the main time, but in the shootout luck was on the side of the "sailors". This season, Lokomotiv scored 35 goals — the fourth result in the conference since the end.
Statistics and figures:
- Bookmakers consider Lokomotiv the favorite of the upcoming match;
- In the last five matches , the railwaymen have suffered three defeats;
- Amur has suffered three defeats in the last four meetings;
- In the last 20 full-time matches, Lokomotiv has won 13, Amur - seven;
- The last game ended with a score of 4:2 in favor of the Yaroslavl club.
Forecast
In the last three full-time matches, teams score at least six goals for two. Let's make a slightly more modest bet — that the opponents will figure out five goals for two.