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Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to the authorSummer is over — it's time for big hockey. On a cloudy and cool September evening, it was really hot at the Moscow arena in the Park of Legends: CSKA and Metallurg Magnitogorsk fired up and marked the start of the 15th anniversary season of the Continental Hockey League with a new confrontation. The new championship promises to be not only bright, but also extremely difficult. Due to the change in the calendar, each KHL team will have to play 68 meetings — there have never been so many in the history of the championship. For CSKA and Magnitogorsk, this is a special challenge, because both clubs compared to other league participants after the crazy seven-match final series of the Gagarin Cup had an order of magnitude less time to rest and recover. And it’s not just that the mentor of the “red-blues” Sergey Fedorov, on the eve of the start of the season, said that the new schedule looks intimidating. From the game of the opponents, it was clear that they spent the past summer productively: despite the harsh training camp, both CSKA and Metallurg «Demonstrated great hockey. First of all, it was about intensity. For this component, both teams should express respect: contrary to some expectations to see an indistinct and somewhere even boring game, they acted as if they were already cutting into the playoffs. Only accidents, smoothly flowing into errors, became decisive. This was especially true of CSKA, which missed Maxim Mamin and Konstantin Okulov.