MOSCOW, April 7 Metallurg Magnitogorsk won a strong-willed victory over Chelyabinsk «Tractor» in the third match of the final series of the Eastern Conference of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). The meeting in Chelyabinsk ended with a score of 2:1 (0:0, 0:1, 2:0). On an abandoned puck by Nikita Tertyshny (23rd minute), the guests answered with accurate shots by Yaroslav Khabarov (49) and Nikolai Goldobin (51). The score in the series up to four wins was 2-1 in favor of Metallurg. The fourth game will take place in Chelyabinsk on Saturday. According to the results of the regular season, the Magnitogorsk club took first place in the Eastern Conference, Traktor — second. Before that, the teams met in the KHL playoffs once. In the 2009/10 season, Metallurg won in the first round (3-1). The Magnitogorsk club has won the Gagarin Cup twice (2014, 2016). In the 2012/13 season, Traktor reached the final of the KHL playoffs, where they lost to Dynamo Moscow (2-4).
