Yekaterinburg vs CSKA Moscow prediction (1x2)

Yekaterinburg is a team with obvious problems in this moment, as the hosts have lost seven of their last nine games in the league (2-0-0-7  17-26), including each of their three games in January against Barys Astana (3-4/away), Omsk (0-3/away) and Cherepovets (0-2/home).In addition to that, the hosts are still without four important players in Vasilevsky (defenceman / 3+10), Mikhnov (winger / 2+2), Pankov (winger / 10+6) and Simakov (winger / 2+23).CSKA Moscow is coming off two straight wins over good teams like Yaroslavl on Jan. 6 (4-0/home) and SKA St. Petersburg on Friday (4-2/home), the visitors have won four of their last five away games (4-0-0-1  14-6), as well as each of the previous six games between these two teams, five of them in the regular time (5-1-0-0  17-6).My bet is on CSKA Moscow in that game.