• HOME
  • STORE
    • SPREADSHIRT STORE
    • SOCKS
    • RMNB STICKER SHOP
    • SUPPORT US ON PATREON
  • PODCAST
  • ABOUT
    • PRIVACY POLICY
    • COMMENT POLICY
    • CONTACT US
  • HOME
  • STORE
    • SPREADSHIRT STORE
    • SOCKS
    • RMNB STICKER SHOP
    • SUPPORT US ON PATREON
  • PODCAST
  • ABOUT
    • PRIVACY POLICY
    • COMMENT POLICY
    • CONTACT US

Swipe to Navigate Older/Newer Posts

  • TRENDING    |
    • Hershey advances to Calder Cup Finals
    • Nicklas Backstrom
    • Spencer Carbery
    • Suzdalev All-Rookie

    Home / News / Traktor Arena Damaged by Meteor

    Traktor Arena Damaged by Meteor

    By Ian Oland

     0 Comment

    February 15, 2013 10:32 am

    traktor-arena

    Photo credit: KHL.ru

    Last night’s meteor that struck Chelyabinsk, Russia, has damaged the Traktor Chelyabinsk’s arena. The KHL is doing an inpection now before a decision can be made whether Traktor can host the first round of the playoffs.

    Press release via KHL’s Facebook page below.

    The meteor shower which struck Chelyabinsk and its environs has also caused some disruption to the hockey season schedule. The emergency services have confirmed that the walls of the Arena Traktor were among those structures to suffer damage, and therefore large-scale events at the stadium have been postponed.

    The sporting facilities will undergo an inspection by experts to assess the readiness of the arena to return to full operational use.

    The results of the assessment will be made public on Monday, after which it will become clear whether the Chelyabinsk club can stage the first games of the play-offs. The knockout stages of the Gagarin Cup get underway on Wednesday, and as Traktor is already assured of a top four place in the Eastern conference, the team is due to start the play-offs with home games on the 21st and 22nd of February.

    At this time, the meteor shower has not affected Traktor’s schedule, as the Chelyabinsk men finish their regular season campaign with a trip on the road to Magnitogorsk on Sunday. However, three events -today’s and tomorrow’s Youth Hockey League games between Belye Medvedi of Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk’s Stalnye Lisy and Saturday’s planned opening of the Traktor’s museum – have had to be postponed.

    Chelyabinsk Meteor, Traktor Arena, Traktor Chelyabinsk
    Share On
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Google+



    • Russian Machine Never Breaks is not associated with the Washington Capitals; Monumental Sports, the NHL, or its properties. Not even a little bit.

      All original content on russianmachineneverbreaks.com is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)– unless otherwise stated or superseded by another license. You are free to share, copy, and remix this content so long as it is attributed, done for noncommercial purposes, and done so under a license similar to this one.


    © RMNB LLC 2009- Privacy