Ice hockey: the main stories of 11.09.2026

A video-analysis official has been stood down after the KHL's officiating department accepted that CSKA's goal against Admiral should have stood. The admission changes nothing on the scoresheet: Admiral's 4-2 win holds, and the department's statement, carried by two outlets, sets out the episode without reopening the result. Igor Nikitin spent his post-match briefing apologising to the crowd rather than on the review, saying the sooner his side came back down to earth the better. Oleg Bratash said the work his players put in had been repaid. What is unusual here is not the error but the named consequence attached to it.

Salavat Yulaev and Ilya Konovalov have gone their separate ways by mutual consent, 2 days after the 28-year-old goalkeeper conceded 7 against Barys; the club offered no further explanation, and this one was also carried by two outlets. Alexei Morozov's suggestion of a shootout before the opening face-off ran through the whole day, each response reported by a single outlet: Andrei Razin asked why a side already holding 2 points would attack in overtime, Bratash said whoever came up with it should see a doctor, and Vyacheslav Fetisov said he could not follow the logic. Valery Kamensky, the league's vice-president for development, called it discussion, not decision. Nikolai Goldobin's line was shorter: the players will play whatever is put in front of them.

• Torpedo 7-2 Lada: Daniil Seroukh with a hat-trick, a 4th straight defeat for Pavel Zubov's side, who admitted his players gave about 70%.
• Neftekhimik beat Avtomobilist 3-1; Avangard saw off Sochi 4-1; Sibir took their first points of the season, 2-0 over Amur.
• Jon Klingberg, 34, has stopped playing after 12 NHL seasons, the last of them in San Jose.
• Things came to a head in Detroit: Dylan Larkin, who asked for a trade in June, is no longer the captain but will report to camp.
• Kevin Fiala has had a second operation on the leg he broke at the Olympics and has no return date.
• Elliotte Friedman reports Nashville's interest in Alexander Nikishin; Pierre LeBrun says the Kucherov talks have gone quiet. Both single-outlet.
• Vegas have tied up Braden Boumann for 6 years at 3.4m dollars a season; Carolina re-signed Mike Reilly on a two-way deal.
• Igor Larionov Jr says his new SKA contract to May 2027 was a hometown discount, and that back surgery explains last season.
• Yevgeny Skachkov, 42, joins Haromszeki Adjuszok for an 8th season in Romania.
• Bill Daly says the Texas expansion question is still unsettled; Nizhny Novgorod officials say they want world championship matches.
• Gavin McKenna will lodge with John Tavares in his first NHL season; Vladimir Sokhatsky marked 500 VHL appearances with a shutout.