KHL Weekly Round-Up

Every Friday there's now a new show on Russian TV called "Hokkey Rossii" which can be translated as "Russian Hockey" or more accurately "Hockey of Russia" (even though it sounds weird to us for some reason).

This week's show's main theme was the discussion on whether the KHL needs enforcers. Tons of Russian league fights were shown while the two pundits in the studio debated the question. The debate got so heated that at one point the host of the show was close to losing control of the situation almost resulting in the commercial break not being shown! The horror.

Alas, order was restored, the commercials went ahead as planned (you can now move off the edge of your seat), no one in the studio was physically harmed, and the mobile fan poll produced the results slightly in favor of the skating pugilists (by about 5%).

We figure that fan poll results were a bit skewed due to the fact that none of the old farts who would have surely voted against the imported bourgeoisie penchant for fisticuffs have learned how to use the texting feature on their mobile devices yet.

During the impromptu poll of KHL coaches only Andrei Nazarov of Traktor Chelyabinsk (predictably) was in favor of adding some Hanson brothers action to the KHL while Slava Bykov (note to the Canadian announcers - it is NOT pronounced Bye-kof), the head coach of CSKA Moscow, wondered out loud what the term "policeman" has to do with hockey.

I know of the following positions in hockey. Center, left wing, right wing, defenseman and goaltender. Last I checked the position of policeman does not exist in hockey and is from another field called law enforcement.

Touche, Mr. Bee-kof, touche.

Now we're not sure who won the studio brouhaha since the debaters did not resort to fisticuffs and we always have a difficult time determining the winner of a debate when violence isn't used as an argument. What we'd like to see is Don Cherry invited to such a debate next time. We'd like to see someone put a fist to where Don's big mouth is.

Oh yeah, they did show some actual hockey on the program, as well. Here are the Top Five KHL Goals of the Week as determined by Vladimir Putin himself.

Okay, we're not really sure if Putin picks the top five goals, but everyone in the West seems to think that he's in charge of every single aspect of Russian life so we'll just pretend that it's true. Good work, Vladi! Who are we to disagree with Mr. Putin after all? We just blog.

If you're a fan of seeing someone's face smashed into the boards (and we know you are, you sick, sick bastards) here's a video

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