MOSCOW, Mar 10 Salavat Yulaev from Ufa defeated Sibir from Novosibirsk in the series of the first round of the KHL playoffs and reached the quarterfinals of the Gagarin Cup. The fifth meeting of the series, held in Ufa, ended with a score of 3:2 (0:0, 2:0, 1:2). As part of the hosts, Alexey Pustozerov (28th minute), Gleb Kuzmin (33) and Nikolai Kulemin (41) scored goals. Alexander Sharov (46) and Yegor Alanov (56) scored among the guests. The score in the series up to four wins was 4-1 in favor of Salavat Yulaev. The next opponent of the Ufa club in the Gagarin Cup will be Traktor Chelyabinsk. Previously, SKA St. Petersburg, Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow (all of the Western Conference), Traktor and Magnitogorsk Metallurg (both Eastern Conference) entered the second round of the KHL playoffs. ), whose opponent will be determined in the confrontation between the Kazan “Ak Bars” and the Omsk “Avangard” (the score in the series is 1-3).
