Two more participants of the Final Four of the men’s Cup of Russia were defined on Wednesday.
HC CSKA will continue to compete for the trophy. The capital team was stronger than HC Dinamo-Sungul with a four-ball advantage in a return quarter-final meeting. The goalkeeper of the winners Vadim Bogdanov reflected 44% of throws (8 out of 18). To recall, HC SKIF Krasnodar got to the Final Four earlier.
The current winners of the Cup HC Chekhovskie medvedi didn’t experience complexities in a return match and beat HC Akbuzat again and got to the Final Four of the men’s tournament. Dmitriy Kornev and Dmitriy Kandybin scored 6 goals each and became the top-scorers of the winners. 8 balls are on the account of Yaroslav Lukyantsev. The left back of HC Chekhovskie medvedi Dmitriy Santalov played for the first time since January and scored 2 goals.
HC SKIF got to the Final Four earlier.
20 March
1/4 finals. Return matches
Chekhovskie medvedi — Akbuzat — 41:31 (21:19) (Kandybin, Korev — 6 each, Furtsev, Kulak — 5 each; Lukyantsev — 8, Isachenko — 4)
The first match — 38:30
Dinamo-Sungul — CSKA — 24:28 (9:15) (Dudik — 5; Shishkarev — 6, Vorobyev — 5)
The first match — 22:27
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