By Henrik Lundqvist – Eurohockey.com
Russia won the Euro Hockey Tour 2018-19. The top spot of the combined standings of the four EHT tournaments was secured already before today’s 4-1 win over Czech Republic.
After two poor games with losses to Sweden and Finland Russia finally got ends to meet and beat the Czech home team 4-1 in Brno.
Tonight it was the line with Yevgeny Kuznetsov (2+2), Alexander Ovechkin (0+3) and Kirill Kaprizov (1+1) that made the difference. and Andrei Vasilevsky in te Russian net made 23 saves.
The World Championship starts on Friday in Slovakia. Russia will play Norway on the opening day while Czech Republic will play Sweden.
Total EHT 2018/19
| # | Club | G | W | W-OT | L-OT | L | Score | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 41:37 | 22 |
| 2 | Finland | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 27:28 | 19 |
| 3 | Sweden | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 29:37 | 17 |
| 4 | Czech Republic | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 30:34 | 14 |
