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Sports October 17: Can Malkin score his 500th NHL goal, will Spartak win in Omsk and will Lonzo Ball return to sports?
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🏒 2:00: Pittsburgh Penguins – Buffalo Sabres, NHL regular season 🏒 2:30: Toronto Maple Leafs – Los Angeles Kings, NHL regular season 🏀 3:00: Chicago Bulls – “Minnesota Timberwolves, preseason games the NBA 🏒 4:30: Colorado Avalanche – Boston Bruins, NHL regular season 🎾 10:30*: Karen Khachanov (Russia, 3) – Otto Virtanen (Finland, RHP), Almaty, second round 🏒 16:30: Avangard – Spartak, KHL regular championship 🎾 19:00*: Andrey Rublev (Russia, 1) – Alexander Muller (France), Stockholm, second round 🏒 19:30: SKA – CSKA, KHL regular season 🏀 21:45: Real Madrid – Panathinaikos, Euroleague, regular season, fourth round
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🏒 2:00: Pittsburgh Penguins – Buffalo Sabres, NHL regular season
Intrigue: Will Evgeni Malkin score his 500th NHL goal?
The Russian forward achieved two important milestones at the start of the season: 800 assists and 1,300 points in the NHL. The next achievement should be the 500th goal in the regular championship. Evgeniy came close to this mark in the last game with Montreal, scoring his first goal of the season and the 499th of his career. Will Malkin make his 500th accurate shot against Buffalo?
Evgeniy continues to climb the list of top scorers in NHL history:
Evgeni Malkin is clearly 36th in the NHL points standings, passing Iginla
🏒 2:30: Toronto Maple Leafs – Los Angeles Kings, NHL regular season
Intrigue: Can Auston Matthews score his first goal of the season?
The best sniper of the last regular season is silent for now: after the first three games he has not scored a single goal. Furthermore, the American forward did not take any effective action: a sad scenario for a player who surpassed the 100-point mark in the previous championship. However, sooner or later Auston should break through: will this happen in the game against Los Angeles?
Matthews still doesn’t play with his own money:
Ovechkin is no longer the richest man in the NHL! The 10 highest-paid hockey players of the season
🏀 3:00: Chicago Bulls vs. Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA preseason games
Intrigue: what will Lonzo Ball’s return be like after two years of inactivity?
Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball has undergone multiple knee surgeries over the course of two years. He returned several times to the training process, but relapsed. As a result, he missed two NBA seasons entirely. The team did not turn their back on the player, but rather kept him on their team, which means a lot. The time has come for Ball to play in the NBA, a game with the Minnesota Timberwolves in the preseason. What will Lonzo show in his first game after such a long layoff?
Shocking news:
Why are NBA players paid millions? One of the best basketball players has become completely insolent.
🏒 4:30: Colorado Avalanche – Boston Bruins, NHL regular season
Intrigue: Will Alexander Georgiev have another chance to prove his reliability?
For Colorado’s Russian goalkeeper, the start of the season is not going well. 78.7% OB, 6.58 KN and 13 goals conceded after 48 shots in three games: you can’t imagine anything worse. Georgiev’s replacement, Justus Annunen, is also unhappy, which will probably make Jared Bednar think about which goalkeeper to use in the next match.
More on Georgiev’s disastrous start:
A hopeless nightmare. Russian goaltender is the worst in the NHL at the beginning of the season
🎾 10:30*: Karen Khachanov (Russia, 3) – Otto Virtanen (Finland, LH), Almaty, second round
*The match schedule may change and will be confirmed.
Intrigue: Will Khachanov reach the quarterfinals of the Almaty tournament?
Karen Khachanov is ranked third in Almaty and will begin the tournament with a match against Finland’s Otto Virtanen. The tennis players have never met before and the winner will compete in the quarterfinals with one of the pair Beibit Zhukaev – Tomas Machach.
Karen moved to Kazakhstan after the Chinese tournaments:
Khachanov defeated Serundolo for the seventh time. And Rublev and Kalinskaya did not finish the match in Beijing due to the rain
🏒 16:30: Avangard – Spartak, KHL regular championship
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Intrigue: can Avangard achieve a second consecutive victory?
Omsk has not had a series of successful matches since the beginning of the season, when it won the first three matches. From that point on, the Hawks suffered defeats after each of their winning games. Will the same situation repeat itself after their victory in the match against Traktor, or will Sergei Zvyagin’s wards be able to interrupt the unpleasant trend?
In the near future, a legionnaire can leave Avangard:
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Avangard plans to part ways with American forward Cassels
🎾 19:00*: Andrey Rublev (Russia, 1) – Alexander Muller (France), Stockholm, second round
💬 Match with text broadcast
*The match schedule may change and will be confirmed.
Intrigue: how will Rublev start in Stockholm?
Andrei Rublev played unsuccessfully at the Shanghai Masters and lost the first match. Now the Russian begins a series of European hard court tournaments. In Stockholm, Andrey is the number one seed and will start in the second round with a match with Alexander Muller of France. The tennis players had already faced each other once: in Rome 2024, the Frenchman was stronger. The winner of the new match will then face one of the Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina – Stan Wawrinka couple.
The Russian completed the Asian series of tournaments without success:
What a game Rublev missed! Andrey could not get revenge on the young Czech at the Shanghai Masters
🏒 19:30: SKA – CSKA, KHL regular championship
💬 Match with text broadcast
Intrigue: how will the first military derby of the season go?
Last season, the St. Petersburg team simply crushed its peers, winning in all six head-to-head meetings during the regular season. The teams have noticeably updated compared to the previous championship and approach the derby in different moods: SKA won the last two matches, while CSKA did the opposite, losing the lead in each of them. Will the Muscovites have weapons against the team from the banks of the Neva?
Words from Ilya Vorobyov after the last defeat:
“It was a big loss for us.” Vorobyov appreciated CSKA’s lost victory in the match against Dynamo
🏀 21:45: Real Madrid – Panathinaikos, Euroleague, regular season, 4th matchday
Intrigue: will the lame Real Madrid find the motivation to take revenge for the last final?
Last season, Real Madrid looked almost flawless in the EuroLeague regular season. The team took down their opponents one after another and did so in a completely playful manner. In the final of the prestigious European tournament, Chus Mateo’s team lost to Panathinaikos. But everyone at the club expected the players to look at least as good this season as they did last season. So far, the whites are not doing well: five defeats and three wins in all tournaments. Will Real Madrid, with such poor results for its level, be able to impose the fight on Pao?
What happened before the start of the season?
CSKA return, $400 million deal and expansion? What is happening in the Euroleague?
