General director “Vityaz” Igor Varitsky shared his opinion on the current KHL format.
– Honestly, for me this question is not fundamental: leave everything as it is and play the playoffs until the finals within the same conference, or immediately from the first round to make the playoffs West. But here the main thing is that before the start of the season we understand by what rules we play.
My personal subjective opinion is (it is necessary) to return to the Superleague format: to play the season and determine the general picture, it will be more interesting for everyone. According to the results of the regular season, the first 16 teams go to the playoffs, then to the Gagarin Cup, 1st place plays with 16th, 2nd with 15th, and so on. And then year after year the same strong and interesting teams find themselves in the conference finals stage.
Can SKA and CSKA fly to the Far East in the first round? Well, what to do? We have a big country and the teams do not fly on regular planes, but on comfortable charters. Those teams you named should, depending on their status, decide the series in four games, and I don’t see anything wrong with flying to Khabarovsk, Vladivostok or Siberia for two games. This is my opinion, – said Varitsky.
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Source : MatchTV
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