Following the results of the regular championship match played between Ak Bars Kazan and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Continental Hockey League (KHL), the first pair of the 2024 Gagarin Cup play-offs has been determined.
Thanks to the 4:2 victory of the “railway workers”, Spartak from Moscow and Severstal from Cherepovets will meet in the first quarterfinals of the KHL Western Conference – the team led by Alexey Zhamnov will take fourth place at the end of the year. In the regular season, Cherepovets will take fifth place.
The first match of the series will be played on February 29 at Megasport Arena, the capital of Russia, and the throw-in will be held at 19.30 Moscow time. The second match will be played on March 2 at 17.00 Moscow time.
For the first time in KHL history, the 2024 playoffs will use a pass system; After the first round, each team playing in the Western Conference will take on a team from the Eastern Conference.
The current winner of the Gagarin Cup is CSKA. On the 100th anniversary of its establishment on April 29, 2023, the Ordu team won the seventh match of the final series against Ak Bars Kazan and won the cup.
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