Sochi - Dinamo Minsk: betting tip (cf 1.70) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

The team from the Krasnodar Territory has long lost any chance of continuing the fight for the Gagarin Cup in the playoffs and is frankly finishing the season. In the last nine games, not counting the one not played against CSKA on February 23, Sochi have added only three points to their point total with a discouraging 13-41 goal difference. The team's goal at the finish of the regular season may be to fight Tolyatti Lada for leaving the last place in the Western table, but given the difficult calendar and the current form of the southerners, it does not look easy to achieve, and in two games with Lada in January, Tolyatti won (4:0) and (4:1).

In the match against Dinamo Minsk held the day before, the intrigue regarding its outcome faded very quickly. By the first break, Dynamo's active attacking actions lit up Large numbers 4:0 in their favor on the scoreboard of the Sports Palace. Even after slowing down somewhat and conceding two goals from Anton Malyshev and Rafael Bikmullin, the Minsk team calmly brought the matter to a confident victory (7:2).

Disqualifications and injuries

Jean-Christophe Bodin, Cameron Lee, Ilya Nikolaev, Alexey Shchetilin and Denis Vengrzhanovsky will miss the upcoming meeting due to injuries.

Interesting betting trends

• Sochi wins 48.2% of face-offs on average.
• According to statistics, the Leopards perform 23 power moves per match.

Current form

Having secured a place in the playoffs, Minsk residents are not inclined to consider the task for the season completed and are clearly determined to do more. The team's results during the season confirm these ambitions. Having secured the second place in the Western Conference, the team from the capital of Belarus is quite capable of challenging the Locomotive leading the West in the fight for the final first place in the table, especially since these two teams still have to play each other on March 15 in Minsk.

On February 25, Minsk residents played a repeat game in Sochi, in which they did not have much difficulty achieving a confident victory (7:2) – the tenth major victory of the season. In the absence of one of the team leaders, Vitaly Pinchuk, other scorers joined their personal account: Alex Limoges, Vadim Moroz, Daniil Lipsky, Sam Enes, Egor Borikov. The game became an important event in the history of the Kontinental Hockey League: it was in it that Minsk forward Vadim Shipachev became the first player in the history of the KHL to reach the milestone of 700 assists. After the match with HC Sochi, Minsk residents return home, where they will play against Magnitogorsk Metallurg on March 3.

Disqualifications and injuries

All the leaders of Minsk residents will come to Sochi.

Interesting betting trends

• Dynamo wins 51.4% of face-offs according to statistics.
• Minsk residents perform an average of 15 power moves per game.