Today in Yaroslavl hosted the fourth match of the quarter-final series of the Gagarin Cup between Lokomotiv and CSKA. The match ended with the 3:1 victory of the Muscovites.
Maxim Mamin led the score in the 7th minute. However, at the end of the second period, Yaroslavl managed to recover. Alexander Yelesin made the score 1:1.
In the third period, only the players of the Moscow club scored. First, Pavel Karnaukhov made the score 2-1 and in the last seconds of the match, Vladislav Kamenev hit the opposing team’s empty nets and determined the score.
After that, the match score in the series was 3:1 in favor of the “soldiers”. The next match of the quarter-final series between these teams will be played on 25 March in Moscow.
In the semi-finals, two more participants will be determined in the pairs “Ak-Bars” – “Admiral” and “Lokomotiv” – CSKA.
The first finalist of the Gagarin Cup is St. John’s, which beat Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo” 4:0 in the series. Petersburg SKA.
Today Avangard defeated Magnitogorsk Metallurg 4:1 and became the second semi-finalist..
The current holder of the Gagarin Cup is CSKA. In the final of the last tournament, the wards of Sergei Fedorov beat Metallurg in a series of seven matches.
Source: Gazeta
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