Today, April 11, will start the final series Gagarin Cup. SKA St. Petersburg will fight for the trophy with Kazan “Ak Bars».
The most titled team of the pair is the Kazan team. He has twice won the “gold” in the playoffs CHL (2008/09 and 2009/10) and six-times finalist of the Cup. St. Petersburg, “CSKA” this can not boast. They only once becomes the third (in the 2012/13 season) and got to the finals for the first time.
But the record SKA outsiders before the final series is not necessary. That only is their strong-willed victory in the series over the capital CSKA when losing 0: 3, they were able not only to equalize, but to win in the final game and get into the finals. By the way, this series has now become only the current Gagarin Cup, which consisted of seven matches.
It is not easy in the final was let in “Ak Bars”. They had to overcome the resistance of “Siberia”, which at the beginning of the Cup nobody put. But Novosibirsk beat the current holder of the Gagarin Cup Magnitogorsk “Metallurg” in the quarterfinals and came in four of the strongest. However, to cope with the team from Kazan, they have failed.
In the regular season SKA and “Ak Bars” met twice, and twice with a shield from the ice left “Ak Bars”. In the first home game, beating Petrograd with a score of 3: 1, and after the guest has a larger score of 5: 1. In the playoffs Gagarin Cup, these teams have not met even once.
SKA is the most effective team playoff-2015. “CSKA” scored 49 goals in 17 matches. “Ak Bars” scored 32 goals, but he is the most malopropuskayuschey team. In 15 matches, “leopards” conceded just 17 times.
Journalists called final series Gagarin Cup duel two coaches – Zinetuly Bilyaletdinov (“Ak Bars”) and Vyacheslav Bykov (SKA). Former Russia coach returned to work in the club in the summer 2014 and in his first season brought his team to the finals. In the history of the playoffs the Continental Hockey League Bulls and Bilyaletdinov crossed only twice in the playoffs.
In 2010, “Ak Bars” Bilyaletdinov beat “Salavat Yulaev” in the Eastern Conference finals, and then became the champion. And next year Ufimtsev already won the series with “Ak Bars” and made it to the title. So that the score in the confrontation of two specialists equal – 1: 1.
The first match of the final confrontation will take place in Kazan and will begin at midnight on the seaside of time.
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