Salavat Yulaev will play with Kunlun Red Star: predictions for away match

UFA, 22 January 2019. /Bashinform News Agency, Natalia Ovcharuk/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

On January 22, HC Salavat Yulaev will play with the Chinese Kunlun Red Star. The KHL regular championship was resumed after the “All-Star Week” in Tatarstan. Ufa hockey players Larsen, Metsola, and Burdasov successfully competed in the team of the Chernyshev division and became absolute champions, having won the “Skill Show” and the “KHL All-Star Game”.

Less than a month left before the playoffs. The hosts of the upcoming match occupy the 9th place in the East, lagging behind the zone of playoffs games by 8 points. Kunlun Red Star had three home defeats and two games ahead with Salavat Yulaev and Avangard. The Chinese ice squad shows not the best game of the power play specialty team, but Red Star is in the top ten KHL in playing shorthanded - 82.9% of reliability.

Salavat Yulaev took a short break after three losses in a row. Now the team of Nikolay Tsulygin is in the sixth place of the Eastern Conference, but Barys (fifth place) is seven points ahead, and Torpedo is nine points ahead. The Ufa club shows good performance of the power play specialty team: 86.6% of shorthanded reliability and 24.2% of the power-play success rate.

HC Kunlun Red Star and HC Salavat Yulaev met twice in the 11th season of the KHL. Both times, the players of Tsulygin celebrated a crushing victory - 5: 0 and 7: 4. According to the bookmakers, this time Salavat Yulaev team will also be stronger. And the Ufa players will finish the game in the regular time.