In looking at this polar continent hockey melodrama, we have HC Sochi mooing in the cow-panel of Dynamo Moscow. Goalkeepers for HC Sochi, Yevgeni Volokhin and Sergei Ivanov, are looking mightily bonedry---no saves this last month, quite impressive. On the other side of the rink, though, Vladislav Podyapolsky for Dynamo Moscow saved a couple kittens from daring hair-splitting shots with 26 saves, while Maxim Motorygin... did nothing. Maybe he's just there for the borscht?
HC Sochi players like Sergei Popov and Will Bitten have been walloping some hard rubber with 12 goals and 8 goals this season, respectively, even if Bitten did nothing more than consume his alphabets for most the year. Artur Tyanulin and Vasili Machulin flat their performance, adding up 9 goals and 2 goals this season along with an impressive number of assists.
Swing your gaze with me to Dynamo Moscow's players' stats. Max Comtois and Dmitri Rashevsky have been hammering frozen orbs into nets like second nature, with 12 and 16 goals this season, respectively. Meanwhile, Nikita Gusev is taking a diplomatic approach with an impressive number of assists, seems someone took his sharing lessons to heart.
The history between these Sochian tigers and Muscovite dynamos screams one-sided with Dynamo Moscow playing more like a steamroller than opponents in their five previous meetings.
Going through HC Sochi's recent artistry on ice, they've been extinct more often than not, while Dynamo Moscow's been riding on the success toboggan slapping each opponent with defeat like they took the last bit of stroganoff at supper. And let's not forget Dynamo Moscow's substantial lead over HC Sochi in the regular season standings, further tip-toeing to our conclusion.
Albert’s Prediction: Dynamo Moscow by 4
