All quarter-finals of the Gagarin Cup 2022/2023 playoffs have come to an end.
Today, March 29, CSKA beat Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 5:0 in its seventh game. Like this. Moscow team, St. Petersburg SKA to reach the Western Conference finals, where they will play. Kazan’s Ak Bars and Omsk Avangard will face each other in the Eastern Conference finals.
Note that CSKA defeated Severstal Cherepovets in the previous playoff round. The separation also ended in the seventh game. SKA beat Dinamo Minsk (4:2) in the 1/8 final and was stronger than Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (4:0) in the second round. Ak Bars defeated Neftekhimik 4:2 in the first round and won the series against Admiral in the conference semi-finals (4:2). Avangard won two series with a total score of 8:1. Omsk team defeated Sibir and Metallurg.
Former coach of the Russian national team and Ak Bars Vladimir Plushev summarized A series of semi-finals of the KHL Eastern Conference, where Kazan met with the “Admiral” and won in six games.