{"id":18808,"date":"2013-01-08T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/sport\/hockey\/ovechkin-malkin-kovalchuk-khl-491\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:10:05","slug":"swan-song-nhl-greats-make-waves-on-their-last-week-at-home-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/swan-song-nhl-greats-make-waves-on-their-last-week-at-home-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan song: NHL greats make waves on their last week at home (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"VideoDescription\" class=\"grey mv10\">SKA player Ilya Kovalchuk. (RIA Novosti \/ Vladimir Fedorenko)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Frt.com%2Ffiles%2Fsport%2Fhockey%2Fovechkin-malkin-kovalchuk-khl-491%2Fi217c60ab1753c07392cf7c9cfa79ae0f_88025_2013-01-07t151603.560_khl.mxf.mp4%3Fdownload%3D1\" class=\"download\">(10.3Mb)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Frt.com%2Ffiles%2Fsport%2Fhockey%2Fovechkin-malkin-kovalchuk-khl-491%2Fi217c60ab1753c07392cf7c9cfa79ae0f_88025_2013-01-07t151603.560_khl.mxf.flv\" class=\"embedvideo\" onclick=\"return show_embed()\">embed video<\/a><br clear=\"all\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With the NHL lockout over, some of Russia&#8217;s biggest hockey stars are to return overseas soon. But Malkin, Ovechkin, Kovalchuk and Datsyuk still produced key performances for their teams in the KHL this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00adThe New Year has brought the KHL new leaders, SKA Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>Game Week 16 saw the Armymen victorious in both of their games, with nine goals scored. And two shut-outs for their netminder, Semyon Bobrovsky.<\/p>\n<p>The Saint-Pete side went top of the league on Friday after thrashing Lokomotiv 4-0 on home ice.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Kovalchuk has got an empty-netter in that one as well as his 40th point in 34 games in the KHL. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And after outclassing Neftekhimik 5-0 away, SKA are now four points clear of Cup holders, Dynamo Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin and Co hosted Torpedo and it was the visitors who opened through Ruslan Zaynullin.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t enough to shake Dynamo\u2019s confidence as the Blue-and-Whites stormed back after the first intermission to win it 3-1, with Alex the Gr8 scoring the winner and his 19th goal. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evgeny Malkin&#8217;s has netted his second KHL hat-trick, helping Metallugh Magnitogorsk to a 3-0 win against Traktor Chelyabinsk. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CSKA also topped Traktor this week, with in form Pavel Datsyuk bringing the Muscovites a 3-2 shootout victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>SKA player Ilya Kovalchuk. (RIA Novosti \/ Vladimir Fedorenko)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Frt.com%2Ffiles%2Fsport%2Fhockey%2Fovechkin-malkin-kovalchuk-khl-491%2Fi217c60ab1753c07392cf7c9cfa79ae0f_88025_2013-01-07t151603.560_khl.mxf.mp4%3Fdownload%3D1\">(10.3Mb)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Frt.com%2Ffiles%2Fsport%2Fhockey%2Fovechkin-malkin-kovalchuk-khl-491%2Fi217c60ab1753c07392cf7c9cfa79ae0f_88025_2013-01-07t151603.560_khl.mxf.flv\">embed video<\/a><br clear=\"all\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With the NHL lockout over, some of Russia&#8217;s biggest hockey stars are to return overseas soon. But Malkin, Ovechkin, Kovalchuk and Datsyuk still produced key performances for their teams in the KHL this week.<\/p>\n<p>&shy;The New Year has brought the KHL new leaders, SKA Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>Game Week 16 saw the Armymen victorious in both of their games, with nine goals scored. And two shut-outs for their netminder, Semyon Bobrovsky.<\/p>\n<p>The Saint-Pete side went top of the league on Friday after thrashing Lokomotiv 4-0 on home ice.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Kovalchuk has got an empty-netter in that one as well as his 40th point in 34 games in the KHL. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And after outclassing Neftekhimik 5-0 away, SKA are now four points clear of Cup holders, Dynamo Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin and Co hosted Torpedo and it was the visitors who opened through Ruslan Zaynullin.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&rsquo;t enough to shake Dynamo&rsquo;s confidence as the Blue-and-Whites stormed back after the first intermission to win it 3-1, with Alex the Gr8 scoring the winner and his 19th goal. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Evgeny Malkin&#8217;s has netted his second KHL hat-trick, helping Metallugh Magnitogorsk to a 3-0 win against Traktor Chelyabinsk. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CSKA also topped Traktor this week, with in form Pavel Datsyuk bringing the Muscovites a 3-2 shootout victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}