Metallurg Magnitogorsk beat Spartak Moscow in the first match of the Gagarin Cup quarter-finals.
The match held in Magnitogorsk ended with a score of 4:0.
Luke Johnson, Dmitry Silantiev, Egor Yakovlev and Nikita Grebenkin scored in this match.
Accordingly, Metallurg took the lead 1-0 in the series. The teams will play again in Magnitogorsk on March 19, then the series will move to Moscow, where matches will be played on March 21 and 23.
In the 2023/24 season, crossover play-offs have been introduced in the second round stage, where teams from different conferences play each other.
For the first time in the history of the Kontinental Hockey League, both of the last Gagarin Cup finalists failed to advance past the first round of the following season. CSKA lost to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the 1/8 final. The fifth match of the series ended with the score of 6:3 for the Yaroslavl team. CSKA is the current owner of the Gagarin Cup. Lost to Ekaterinburg Avtomobilist in the Ak Bars series. The series ended with a score of 1:4. In the fifth match, the club from the capital of Tatarstan was defeated with a score of 1:2.
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