«Vanguard» suffered a third defeat in a row in the KHL after the match against SKA

St. Petersburg, Sep 7Petersburg SKA defeated Avangard Omsk in the regular season match of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 4:1 (0:0, 3:0, 1:1). As part of the hosts, Marat Khairullin scored a hat-trick (27, 35 and 59 minutes), Mikhail Vorobyov (35) scored another goal. Aleksey Bereglazov scored for the guests (53).Continental Hockey League (KHL)07 September 2022 • Start at 19:30FinishedSKARussia4 : 1< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/9cb81ba3e5e004ce27fed9e3da5c5c00.png" />AvangardRossiyaThe match began with a moment of silence in memory of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv team that died 11 years ago in a plane crash. A memorial for laying flowers and a sector of memory were organized at the arena, in which scarves with the symbols of the Yaroslavl club were laid out for 44 places. All hockey players and team coaches went to the game with special commemorative chevrons on jerseys and suits. The Yak-42 aircraft of the Yak Service airline with the Lokomotiv hockey team on board crashed on September 7, 2011 during takeoff from the Tunoshna airport in the Yaroslavl region. In total, there were 45 people on the plane — 37 passengers and eight crew members. Two survived the crash — hockey player Alexander Galimov and flight engineer Alexander Sizov, but on September 12 Galimov died from his wounds at the Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery in Moscow. In the next meeting, SKA will host Dynamo Moscow on September 9, and Avangard two days later will meet on the road with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg. In another game, Vityaz near Moscow defeated Kazakhstan's Barys at home — 5:0 0:0, 4:0). The hosts' goalkeeper Dmitry Shikin saved 34 shots and scored the first clean sheet of the season.