SKA hockey player Pavel Dedunov told that he is abstaining from the Gagarin Cup final, where Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl play.
SKA completed its performance in the Fonbet KHL Championship playoffs at the end of March, losing to Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist in the quarterfinals in five games of the series. On Saturday, a meeting between SKA hockey players and their supporters took place at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg. The players also played a bilateral match.
— We managed to take a break at the end of the season. Today we returned to the arena and were immersed in the emotions of the match. We met the fans. There is still some uncertainty regarding the season. Mixed emotions. I don’t watch the Cup final. I can’t watch hockey or read the news when I’m not playing. “I walked away from the final,” Dedunov told .
On Saturday, Metallurg defeated Lokomotiv in the second match of the Gagarin Cup final series. The Magnitogorsk team won on their home ice on Saturday with a score of 1:0. Metallurg won the second game in a row and took the lead in the best-of-four series with a score of 2-0. The third and fourth matches of the series will take place in Yaroslavl on April 22 and 24, respectively.
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Source : MatchTV

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