Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to the authorMoscow CSKA made a victorious comeback in the series against SKA and reached the final of the Gagarin Cup. Now Sergei Fedorov has a chance to lead the team to the championship in his debut season as head coach. If the final series of the Eastern Conference between Metallurg and Traktor made the audience fall in love with it with its entertainment, then the army confrontation between CSKA and SKA in the West stood out with the highest degree tension and nerve. After the Muscovites went through their rivals in the first rounds of the playoffs, the chances of the St. Petersburgers with their not the most convincing game in attack did not look so obvious. In fact, the picture appeared a little different: SKA acted more mobile, more active and often crushed the defense of CSKA with powerful pressure, which was not even close in the series against Spartak. However, this was not enough. Sergey Plotnikov, who until today's meeting in St. Petersburg, except for penalty minutes, did not score anything else in the series against SKA, in the decisive, seventh game, he decided everything in one period. It was enough for the 31-year-old striker to be at the right time at the penny to throw the puck twice into the empty corner of Lars Johansson's goal. Konstantin Okulov's goal into an empty net a minute and a half before the final siren put an end to both the match and the series.
