MOSCOW, Aug 4 Torpedo hockey club from Nizhny Novgorod defeated Traktor from Chelyabinsk » in a friendly pre-season match. The meeting in Nizhny Novgorod ended in favor of the hosts with a score of 6:2 (5:1, 0:0, 1:1). Denis Vengryzhanovsky (3rd and 58th minutes), Sergey Goncharuk (6), Nikolay Kovalenko (10), Alexei Kruchinin (16) and Ilya Kudryashov (17) scored goals for the winners. As part of the guests, the pucks on account of Temu Pulkkinen (9) and Nikita Tertyshny (47). Season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) September 3 home match against the finalist of the last Gagarin Cup Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Traktor a day earlier will take Cherepovets Severstal. The teams will play again on Friday. «Torpedo» starts in the new season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) on September 3 with a home match against the finalist of the last Gagarin Cup Magnitogorsk «Metallurg», «Tractor» a day earlier will take Cherepovets «Severstal».
Last season, «Tractor» » became the second in the Eastern Conference, in the playoffs the team reached the semi-finals of the Gagarin Cup. “Torpedo” took ninth place in the West and could not get into the playoffs.