February 6, 2001
RUSSIAN HIGHER LEAGUE TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
on February 4, 2001
The
first stage of the qualifying tournament for the right which will give
each of four top teams from the East and West divisions to fight for two
vacant places in the Superleague for 01/02 season is over. The best
chances to make the elite division of the Russian Superleague have Spartak
Moscow, Krylya Soviets Moscow and Sibir Novosibirsk.
Spartak
goes into the second stage of the tournament with a slogan, “All or
nothing!” That means if the club will not be among the two best teams
they will lose their sponsors and patrons who are a great support for them
this year. Youngster Ilya Kovalchuck will lead his team in the final
battle for the spot in the Superleague. At the moment he is indisputably
the best player on the team in all concerns such as goal scoring and
ability to urge on his teammates.
Krylia
Soviets also has good financial basis and their chances are very high.
Sibir
Novosibirsk is a powerful team but still nobody knows how it will look
against much stronger and more competitive teams of Division West.
Crystal
Saratov, Khimik Voskresensk, Energia Kemerovo and Traktor Chelyabinsk are
good but are not still ready to make Superleague for 01/02 season. If they
be lucky enough in it then their destiny is to become just victims of the
clubs like AkBars Kazan, Metallurg Magnotogorsk and Omsk Avangard. There
is no need to become points suppliers like SKA St. Petersburg and Vityaz
Podolsk have been in the Superleague so far this season.
DIVISION WEST
CLUB GP W WO T LO L GF-GA PTS
1 Spartak (Moscow) 44 30 3 5 1 5 207-94 102
2 Krylia Soviets (Moscow) 44 30 3 5 0 1 198-88 101
3 Crystal (Saratov) 44 21 6 5 1 11 152-105 81
4 Khimik (Voskresensk) 44 23 1 7 2 11 131-110 80
5 Lipetsk (Lipetsk) 44 24 0 4 1 15 122-105 77
6 HC CSKA (Moscow) 44 17 1 6 2 18 144-129 61
7 Motor (Zavolzhye) 44 13 1 13 0 17 103-120 54
8 Elemash (Elektrostal) 44 15 0 4 2 23 96-149 51
9 Voronezh (Voronezh) 44 13 1 6 2 22 117-140 49
10 Tver (Tver) 44 12 1 5 3 23 101-154 46
11 Spartak (St. Petersburg) 44 6 1 6 2 29 83-178 28
12 Dizelist (Penza) 44 7 0 4 2 31 74-155 27
GP- games played team.
WO- Win in overtime.
T- Tie.
L0- Loose in overtime.
GF- goal for. GA- goal against.
PTS- points.
DIVISION EAST
CLUB GP W WO T LO L GF-GA PTS
1 Sibir (Novosibirsk) 48 38 1 0 0 9 204-105 102
2 Neftyanik (Almetyevsk) 48 29 2 5 2 10 174-97 98
3 Energia (Kemerovo) 48 27 4 4 1 12 136-98 94
4 Tractor (Chelyabinsk) 48 27 1 4 1 15 140-105 88
5 Rubin (Tyumen) 48 24 1 7 1 15 142-128 82
6 Metallurg (Serov) 48 23 1 4 0 20 137-127 75
7 Izhstal (Izhevsk) 48 20 3 4 3 18 132-116 73
8 Kedr (Novouralsk) 48 18 1 8 1 20 133-143 65
9 CSK WWS (Samara) 48 17 1 6 5 19 115-121 64
10 Motor (Barnaul) 48 14 1 1 3 29 113-158 48
11 Neftyanik (Leninogorsk) 48 12 2 6 0 28 96-144 46
12 Yuzhny Ural (Novotroitsk-Orsk) 48 9 2 5 2 30 108-178 38
13 Sputnik (Nizhny Tagil) 48 5 0 4 1 38 113-213 20
Schedule
of the games
February
14,2001- April 7,2000
February 14, 2001 Wednesday:
Sibir- Crystal
Energia- Spartak Moscow
Traktor- Krylia Soviets
Neftyanik- Khimik
February 18, 2001 Sunday:
Khimik- Sibir
Krylia Soviets-Energia
Krystal-Neftanik
Spartak Moscow- Tractor
February 22, 2001 Tuesday:
Sibir- Spartak Moscow
Neftyanik-Krylia Soviets
Energia- Khimik
Tractor- Krystal
February 26, 2001 Monday:
Krylia Soviets-Sibir
Spartak Moscow-Neftyanik
Crystal- Energia
March 2, 2001 Friday:
Sibir-Neftyanik
Khimik- Krystal
Krylia Soviets- Spartak Moscow
Energia- Tractor
March 6, 2001 Tuesday:
Tractor-Sibir
Crystal- Krylia Soviets
Spartak Moscow-Khimik
Neftyanik- Energia
March 10, 2001 Saturday:
Sibir-Energia
Krylia Soviets- Khimik
Crystal- Spartak Moscow
Traktor- Neftyanik
March 14, 2001 Wednesday:
Energia-Sibir
Khimik-Krylya Soviets
Spartak Moscow- Crystal
Neftyanik-Traktor
March 18, 2001 Sunday:
Sibir- Tractor
Krylia Soviets-Crystal
Khimik- Spartak Moscow
Energia- Neftyanik
March 22, 2001 Tuesday:
Neftyanik-Sibir
Crystal-Khimik
Spartak Moscow- Krylia Soviets
Tractor- Energia
March 26, 2001 Monday:
Sibir-Krylia Soviets
Neftyanik- Spartak Moscow
Energia- Crystal
Tractor- Khimik
March 30, 2001 Friday:
Spartak Moscow- Sibir
Krylia Soviets-Neftyanik
Crystal- Tractor
Khimik- Energia
April 3, 2000 Tuesday:
Sibir- Khimik
Neftyanik- Crystal
Energia- Krylia Soviets
Traktor- Spartak Moscow
April 7, 2000 Saturday:
Crystal- Sibir
Krylia Soviets- Traktor
Spartak Moscow- Energia
Khimik- Neftyanik
Denis Neznanov
HockeyZonePlus' Russian Correspondent |
