petersburg S.K.A. will play the opening game of the first round of the KHL Western Conference playoffs on March 1, reports the KHL Press Service.
SKA won the regular season ahead of schedule and in Game 1 of the 1/8 playoff series will play with the West’s eighth team on home ice. The regular season will end on February 26.
Dynamo Moscow will start the campaign for the Gagarin Cup away, but due to the workload of the local arena due to football matches, the series with their participation will start on March 2.
In each series of conference games, quarter-finals are held up to four wins. The first two matches and, if necessary, the fifth and seventh are played on the grounds of the teams with the highest seeded number.
Currently, 13 of the 16 participants of the second part of the Fonbet KHL Championship are known. The fight for the title will definitely be continued by SKA, Lokomotiv, Torpedo, CSKA, Dynamo (Moscow), Vityaz, Severstal, Ak Bars, Avtomobilist, Sibir, Salavat Yulaev, “Metallurg” and Avangard”.
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Source : MatchTV
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