Maxim Sushinsky, former player of the Russian national team and former head of Omsk Avangard, described the victory of Kazan Ak Bars in the fifth game of the Eastern Conference final series as unfair.
“It is a pity that in a match like this, the fate of the series was determined by the referees who did not allow Ak Bars to be kicked out of the game in overtime. Refereeing in this game was weird. Everyone understood that this was a 100% suspension, but the judge ignored it. Maybe they didn’t want to decide its fate by removing the show, but it turns out that Ak Bars didn’t win in a fair fight,” said Sushinsky. sports24.
The match played at Tatneft Arena in Kazan ended with the victory of Ak Bars 3:2 (Overtime).
As part of the winners, Dmitry Yudin, Kirill Adamchuk and Vadim Shipachev scored goals. Aleksey Bereglazov and Reed Boucher scored goals for Avangard.
Kazan team, CSKA Moscow and SKA St. He reached the final of the Gagarin Cup, where St. Petersburg will face the winner of the Eastern Conference final. The equality so far in this series is 2:2.
Former head coach of the Russian national ice hockey team Vladimir Krikunov supported Petersburg SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg’s decision to exclude striker Nikita Gusev from the squad due to alcohol problems.