Chelyabinsk “Traktor” snatched victory from “Salavat Yulaev” in the 1/8 finals of the Gagarin Cup. The meeting ended with a score of 4:2.
In the 17th minute, Ufa team took the lead 2-0 with goals from Ivan Drozdov and Yegor Suchkov.
The home team managed to pull a goal back at the start of the second period. Charles Robinson scored the goal. In the third period, Traktor changed the course of the match and hit the opponent’s goal three times. Vitaly Kravtsov equalized the score in the 42nd minute. With 3 minutes left in the match, Semyon Der-Arguchintsev put his team ahead for the first time in this match, while Charles Robinson scored the goal by scoring a double point into the empty goal in the last minute.
Thus, after this match, the score of the series was 4:2 in favor of the Chelyabinsk team. Traktor became the sixth team to reach the quarter-finals of the Gagarin Cup. Previously, Omsk Avangard, Spartak, Lokomotiv, SKA and Avtomobilist had achieved this.
The current winner of the Gagarin Cup is Moscow CSKA. 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. Both teams were eliminated in the first round of the play-offs this season.
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