Ice hockey: the main stories of 19.09.2026

Dinamo Moscow arrived in Khabarovsk on a run and left it behind them: Amur's 4-0 was the club's 400th win in the KHL. Oleg Li finished with 3 (1+2) points. Leonid Tambiev put the result on the special teams and on one needless 5-minute penalty, which he said broke a game Dinamo had been holding; Alexander Andriyevsky credited the penalty-killing for the energy that followed. Both coaches spoke to a single outlet, but the scoreline is the club's own milestone, and it stands whatever the reading of the 5-minute call.

Lokomotiv are still unbeaten — 6 wins from 6, 12 points, top of the West — and the reaction was mostly warnings rather than praise: Sergei Konkov said no side of his memory has come through a season this long without losing, and Maxim Rybin pointed to Radulov and Surin as the men driving it. Roman Rotenberg said he played hockey with Alexander Ovechkin the night before the captain flew to the United States and wished him health for the season, the calmest note in a week dominated by the fallout from Ovechkin's campaign-video cameo; agent Alexei Dementyev, in one outlet's report, would not rule out a political career for him later. Tampa's new top line is taking shape, with Brayden Point saying Ilya Mikheyev's pace and work on the puck should suit him and Nikita Kucherov.

• TSN put McDavid first in its top 50 for the 10th year running; MacKinnon 2nd, Celebrini 3rd, Kucherov 4th, Kaprizov 11th, Crosby 17th.
• Traktor GM Alexei Volkov called Dronov's chalked-off goal in the 1-3 defeat by Spartak on 18 September "stolen" and the officiating incompetent.
• One outlet reports that Anaheim have extended Tim Wash by four years to 2030/31, with PuckPedia putting the cap hit at $2.25m.
• Nikita Gusev remains a free agent since 31 May; by all accounts from Rybin and Alexander Kozhevnikov, KHL clubs could use him, while Barys coach Stepanov said his bridges with Dinamo are burnt.
• Journalist Dmitry Yerykalov described a row between Andrei Razin and Yegor Yakovlev over the Metallurg captaincy.
• Crosby welcomed Malkin's one-year deal; Malkin turned 40 in July and had 61 points last season.
• Artemi Panarin, on rising wages: "I feel like an Uber driver. Uber Black, though" — the $11m forward; Peter Laviolette said he will not rein in his creativity.
• Severstal failed to score for a third match running, losing 0-2 at Admiral; 4 goals and 5 defeats in 6 games.
• Sibir said Taylor Beck stayed home with a recurrence of a knock; the side play Sochi on 20 September.
• Kevin Hayes has 0 points and -1 in 5 KHL games for Ak Bars and did not shoot in 13:10 against Sochi.
• Calgary re-signed Brennan Othmann to a one-year two-way deal; Kyle Konin is named Tampa's emergency backup, his 6th such call-up since 2021/22.
• NHL pre-season overnight: Montreal v Toronto, St Louis v Dallas, Minnesota v Chicago, Edmonton v Winnipeg.