MOSCOW, March 27 Traktor Chelyabinsk beat Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the sixth match of the series 1/4 finals of the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) and advanced to the next round of the Gagarin Cup. The meeting, held in Ufa, ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of the guests. Nick Baylen (31st minute) and Vyacheslav Osnovin (38th) scored goals among the winners. The hosts scored Alexander Kadeykin (56). “Salavat Yulaev” spent a series without foreign players who left the club amid the events in Ukraine. «Tractor» managed to save foreign players, including the Czech goalkeeper Roman Villa, who reflected in the sixth match of the series 34 of 35 shots. The score in the series to four victories was 4-2 in favor of «Tractor». In the first round of the playoffs, the Chelyabinsk team passed the Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik (4-0), Salavat Yulaev turned out to be stronger than the Novosibirsk Sibir (4-1). According to the results of the regular season «Tractor» took the second place in the table, the Ufa club — the third.
