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It’s a long way from a windshield-making factory in Hawkesbury to southwestern Siberia.
But wherever Bob Hartley has coached hockey – over many decades – he’s had success, including in Cornwall in the mid-1990s, and for the last few seasons in Russia.
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Last week, the Avangard Omsk team he guides captured a very prestigious trophy – the Gagarin Cup. (It’s named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.)
It’s emblematic of Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) supremacy, and it adds to Hartley’s spectacular coaching resume. He’s just the sport’s second head coach to win both a Stanley Cup (2001, Colorado Avalanche) and Gagarin Cup, along with Mike Keenan.
Petruzzelli, Gorsuch lead K s past Nailers
JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette
The Wheeling Nailers probably don’t like playing at Memorial Coliseum very much.
Tonight typified why that is.
The Nailers had a bevy of great scoring chances, only to run into a hot goaltender, Trevor Gorsuch, in his Komets debut, and Fort Wayne won 3-1.
Gorsuch stopped 20 of 21 shots. Wheeling’s Shane Starrett stopped 25 of 28.
Fort Wayne has won 20 of the last 23 games between the teams at the Coliseum, including 7 of 9 this season.
Fort Wayne’s Oliver Cooper, in his eighth game out of the University of New Brunswick, was hitting everyone he could. And when he drove Wheeling defenseman Matt Miller into the boards behind the net, it set up Cooper to deliver a pass in front to Anthony Petruzzelli for a goal and a 2-1 lead 5:18 into the third period.
Watch me, how I play : Petruzzelli leads K s to 3-1 victory
Rookie Cooper, new goalie Gorsuch also shine at Coliseum
JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette
Anthony Petruzzelli has been one of the Komets’ most consistent scorers this season – he has nine goals and 25 points in 34 games – but he took his game to another level Friday night.
Not just in scoring, but also in leading.
Petruzzelli fought Joshua Winquist – it was only the second fight of Petruzzelli’s 167-game pro career – and he netted the game-winner as the Komets defeated the Wheeling Nailers 3-1 on Friday night at Memorial Coliseum.
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Former K s star Shafranov wins Gagarin Cup as assistant coach
JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette
Konstantin Shafranov, who won three championships as a player with the Komets and was an assistant coach for 2 1/2 seasons, has won another title with Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Shafranov is an assistant coach to former NHL coach Bob Hartley. Avangard defeated CSKA Moscow for the Gagarin Cup this week. The KHL is considered the second-highest level of professional hockey in the world behind the NHL.
Shafranov, 52, played seven seasons with the Komets in both incarnations of the International Hockey League between 1995 and 2010. In 350 regular-season games with Fort Wayne, he totaled 159 goals and 362 points. In 48 playoff games, he had 15 goals and 44 points, and helped the Komets to Turner Cups in 2008, 2009 and 2010.