St. Petersburg SKA defeated Ekaterinburg Avtomobilist in the fourth match of the Gagarin Cup quarter-finals.
The match, which took place at the Uralets stadium in Yekaterinburg, ended with a score of 5:2.
St. The St. Petersburg club opened the scoring in the match with Vasily Glotov’s accurate shot, after which Alex Galchenyuk increased SKA’s advantage. Stefan Da Costa scored as Avtomobilist pulled a goal back. Nikita Kamalov scored behind SKA and Alexey Makeev scored another goal for Avtomobilist. The final score of the match was determined by Marat Khairullin, who made a double at the end of the third period.
Thus, SKA reduced the difference in the series to four wins, 1-3. The next match is on March 25 in St. It is planned to be played in St. Petersburg, the match starts at 19:00 Moscow time.
The third match of the Gagarin Cup quarter-final between Spartak Moscow and Magnitogorsk Metallurg was also supposed to be played on March 23, but was postponed due to the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
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. CSKA and Ak Bars will no longer be able to compete for the cup this season; both teams were eliminated in the first round of the play-offs.
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