St. St. Petersburg SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg said that the injuries of the team’s defenders affected the outcome of the Gagarin Cup quarter-final series against Ekaterinburg Avtomobilist. “Match TV”.
“Serious injuries to many leading SKA defenders in the first round affected the outcome of the series. “The players who played in the series with Avtomobilist did their best to win,” Rotenberg said.
The fifth match of the series ended with Avtomobilist’s score of 5:4. Among the winners, Alexey Byvaltsev, Nick Ebert, Andrey Obidin and double pointer Alexey Makeev made accurate shots. Mikhail Vorobyov, Marat Khairullin and Arseniy Gritsyuk scored double goals for SKA.
In the series of four wins, the score was 4:1 in favor of Avtomobilist.
In the 1/2 finals, Avtomobilist will play with the winner of the Spartak series, Metallurg (Magnitogorsk). After three matches, Metallurg is ahead with a score of 2:1.
Previously Spartak was played A match for Metallurg in the quarter-finals of the Gagarin Cup.