CSKA Moscow lost to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the 1/8 final of the Gagarin Cup.
The fifth match of the series ended with the score of 6:3 for the Yaroslavl team.
Among the winners were Alexander Polunin, Alexander Elesin, Andrey Sergeev, Alexey Bereglazov, Ivan Chekhovich and Maxim Shalunov with accurate shots. Mikhail Grigorenko, Vladislav Kamenev and Nikita Nesterov scored the goals for CSKA.
Until four wins in the series, the score was 4:1 in favor of Lokomotiv.
CSKA is the current owner of the Gagarin Cup. In the final series of last season, the army team also defeated Ak Bars Kazan, which was eliminated in the first round of the 2023/24 season.
Ak Bars lost the series to Ekaterinburg Avtomobilist with a score of 1:4.
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