The 2023/24 KHL season has become the brightest thanks to a large number of unexpected results, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.
Magnitogorsk Metallurg defeated Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (2:1) on Wednesday in the fourth match of the final series of the Fonbet KHL Championship playoffs and won the Gagarin Cup. The series ended with a score of 4-0 in favor of Magnitogorsk. Metallurg goalkeeper Ilya Nabokov was recognized as the most valuable player of the playoffs.
— Congratulations to the Continental Hockey League and fans on the end of the 16th season. The season became the brightest, broke all patterns – a lot of intrigue, new records, new bright stars, in many teams young players achieved results. It’s no surprise that yesterday junior Ilya Nabokov became the most valuable player in the playoffs. Metallurg became a three-time winner of the Gagarin Cup, winning the title with the youngest champion team in the history of the League. The success of the team is the work of the entire hockey club, which is invariably supported personally by Viktor Filipovich Rashnikov. “Metallurg” and its rival “Lokomotiv” pay great attention to the development of their students, and we saw how ordinary boys from Yaroslavl and Magnitogorsk demonstrated a great game in the final of the main hockey tournament of the country .
I’m happy that the popularity of hockey is increasing – bigger audiences, bigger attendances. And this process will continue, this season the KHL has two new modern arenas in Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg, and very soon new ice palaces will open in Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg, ” reports according to Chernyshenko’s words .
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