There is going to be last game on away trip for Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. After this game Avangard Omsk will play following game on Sunday, but Torpedo will travel back home and will play following game on Tuesday.

Teams do have pretty different statistics this season when Omsk playing at home and Torpedo on road. Torpedo had lost all three games on its serie of away games and Omsk is in great shape when lost in regular time only one game in last ten games.

The home team has great goalie from Finland Karri Rämö who came from NHL and in last Omsk win he added his first shootout in KHL. On the other side there will be Austrian goalie Bern Brückler, but there is great backup Lobanov possible to play. Last game it was about bad defense like Torpedo manager said for Torpedo official site. They had to improve defensive play, not goalie or play in attacking zone when they want to win games on road. He says about not too many possible players to replace if injuries or tiredness vs. teams with better financial possibilities.

In head to head stats there is long history between those teams, but the most important are only in last two seasons because Torpedo played lower Russian League in 05/06 and 06/07 season. Both teams were successful at home.

Torpedo showed in last game they can fight all 60 minutes. They came back to the game after they were down by 3 goals and an empty net goal decided the game at Astana icedome. They made 40 shots on goal, 7 shots by Mikhail Varnakov and the most important for Torpedo, duo from Czech Republic. Jaroslav Bednář and Pavel Brendl added 10 shots, but -5 points in +/- stats. They will face their mates from nation team Jakub Klepiš and star Jaromír Jágr.

Teams in powerplays : Omsk 9th with 17,1% (14/82) and Torpedo 5th with 17,9% (15/84)
Teams in powerplay killing : Omsk 24th with 78,9% (15/71) and Torpedo 7th with 86,9% (13/99)

Avangard Omsk is 3rd in eastern conference table, but Torpedo is 8th in western conference. They are five ponits above 9th position, but only two points from 4th CSKA Moscow and each single point can keep them save position and in touch with 4th CSKA. There is pretty much reason to fight before upcoming 4 days of rest for this team. On other side there are two strong lines and Jaromir Jágr showed this season that he can takes a controll over the game and either he can scores or prepares two-three goals in single period.

I would say that Omsk has more chances to win this game, but because they are the worst team in penalty killing, not huge pressure on them in this game and they can lose concentration because of this there should be great chance to score at least two-three goals by Torpedo and that could be enough for over 5,5 total goals. The most important for me for my expectation is poor defense in last games by Torpedo and head to head games in last season plus only when Omsk played at home.

Avangard Omsk - Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod ... over 5,5 total goals with 1,95 at Sportingbet. Estaminated result in this order 4-2,3-2,3-3.