SKA won the Gagarin Cup for the first time
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On Sunday, St. Petersburg defeated Kazan “Ak Bars” with a score of 4: 1. In the first period Petrograders thrown into the goal Kazan four goals, and even then it was clear that the Gagarin Cup for the first seven years of the CHL would go to St. Petersburg.
In St. Petersburg, the Champions met at the airport “Pulkovo” about three thousand fans . Fans brought to the airport by bus, which leased the leadership SKA. How to write the fans in social networks, riot police put the fence, and we’ve got a corridor.
Wait for your favorite team fans had about two hours. The aircraft landed with the winners about an hour of the night. Someone from the crowd so could not see anything, but someone was able to shake hands with captain Ilya Kovalchuk. Hockey players and fans cheered happily signed autographs, and then held in atobus, said “Fontanka”.
On the eve of St. Petersburg in the fifth match of the finals of the playoffs beat “Ak Bars”, taking the Gagarin Cup for the first time in club history. Series between the St. Petersburg group and Kazan Tatars ended with a score of 4: 1 (4: 2, 1: 0, 1: 2, 3: 2, 6: 1).
SKA walked a long way to victory. Even in the first season of existence of the Continental Hockey League club management was seeking to win the Gagarin Cup. SKA had enough money and talented players and experienced management team, but the club steadily sank in the playoffs. Soldiers from the Neva won Riga and Moscow “Dynamo”, Yaroslavl “Locomotive”, near Moscow, “Atlas” and “Spartacus”.
In many ways his victory SKA shall head coach Vyacheslav Bykov. Five-time world champion and two-time Olympic champion in the past – the head coach of Russian national hockey team, under whose leadership the Russian hockey players for the first time in 15 years, won the world championship in Canada in 2008. In 2009, the Bulls led by HC “Salavat Yulaev” and two years later the club won the Gagarin Cup. After the unsuccessful Russian team at the World Championship in Germany, the Bulls resigned from his post as head coach and has long remained without work. In SKA coach came to the club last spring and for the year was able to make out of the club, which was its fame as a loser, winning team.
Speaking to reporters after the game, the Bulls called semifinal playoff series with CSKA Moscow turning point who helped St Petersburg win the Gagarin Cup. In the semifinals, defeated SKA Muscovites, giving the course of the series with a score of 0: 3. Bykov said that his faith in the team, “interrupted all the doubts that have arisen in the course of the season,” and team captain Ilya Kovalchuk teammates called “handsome”.
Three-Shipachev Panarin-Dadonov named the best in the playoffs SKA and winger Evgeny Dadonov set a record, scoring 15 goals in a single Gagarin Cup. Recognized as the most valuable player Ilya Kovalchuk.
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