Metallurg beat Avangard 5-1 for fifth straight KHL win
Nikita Mikhailis scored twice as Metallurg beat Avangard 5-1 and stayed first in the KHL East with 17 points from 10 games; Avangard lost a fourth time in five.
Metallurg beat Avangard 5-1 in the KHL and made it five wins in a row. Nikita Mikhailis scored twice.
Valeri Orekhov added 2 assists, and Ruslan Iskhakov finished with 2 points (1+1). Andrei Razin's side are first in the Eastern Conference with 17 points from 10 games.
For Avangard it was a fourth defeat in their last 5 games. The team, coached by Guy Boucher, sit seventh in the East with 8 points from 9 matches.
Metallurg play Shanghai on 30 September. Avangard meet Lada on 2 October.
If Metallurg keep collecting points at this rate, the gap over the chasing pack in the East may widen.
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