Gagarin Cup. The final. Results – Chempionat.com

When we talk about the team, which included acts recently the only four-time winner of the Gagarin Cup, it is difficult to consider a sensational victory. “Magnitogorsk”, which became the champion for the second time in three years, can not be compared with HC MVD and its breakthrough. On Tuesday, the LDS CSKA won the ice first and foremost a great experience. Moreover, both individual and team. Sergey Mozyakina for a long time no one dares to call nekubkovy player. Vasily Koshechkin , even missing from the red line, has a unique ability to gather at crucial moments. Even Alexander Semin , which can not enter the final itself into an asset, at least one match of his miracle-transfer to “Metallurgist” pulled. All this applies to the Ilya Vorobiev – a young coach, a kind of “Russian Bylsma.” As a mentor and champion “Pittsburgh”, he took control of the team during the season. But while Vorobyov Jr. so much seen as an assistant, and most importantly – has already won the Cup, in contrast to the Dmitry Kvartalnova
Despite the fact that “MMK” she has won Cup. and its leaders held another great season, throughout the playoffs, it was not burdened with a burden favorite. Is that in the series with “Motorist”, participants of our contest almost unanimously favored “steelmakers”. In the future, experts and journalists are mainly found on the reason, not to put on the opponent, “Metallurg”. Absolutely equal bet on “Magnitogorsk” and “Siberia” explained victorious experience of Novosibirsk, who last year blocked the oxygen Mozyakina & Co., as well as conflicting news about the health of Basil Koshechkina. As a result, the leaders of “Steelworkers” supported the second link, and the goalkeeper, “Metallurg” has played almost flawlessly. Slightly more experts put on a future champion and contender in the conference finals. For “Salavat Yulaev”, even emaciated heavy climbing tournament, said the experience of Igor Zakharkina and the ability to pull out the seventh game. Here are just Vorobiev did not give a professor in chess, hockey and did not bring to the extremes.

The paradox, but the confident gait of “Magnitogorsk” from round to round did not increase its share of the participants’ Predskazamusa “. And if in the East “steelworkers” perceived by one of the many teams that deserve access to the Gagarin Cup final, on the eve of the series against CSKA Moscow in the Urals became true underdog. Those who bet on Magnitogorsk, was once or twice and obchelsya. Dear experts unanimously predicted 4-0, and in the best case – 4-1 in favor of CSKA. This opinion is shared by the overwhelming majority of participants “Predskazamusa”. For Muscovites win in five games put Alexander Kozhevnikov and many others. The defeat in the first match of the final series of seemingly confirmed the validity of these predictions, but the final result of the season left mixed feelings. Are so many journalists and experts could so profoundly mistaken? Why CSKA dominance was a great myth of the Russian hockey?

As a two-time winner “regular season”, Muscovites have been imprisoned for a long and monotonous tournament. Just like the reference Soviet CSKA. Dmitry Kvartalnova team quietly took away points from the middle and outsiders, occasionally playing with their peers. But only matches, where you have to act on the knife, this very young team was nothing at all. As a result – two seventh game against SKA and “Magnitogorsk”, the regular season, the Kings gave the future champions. Even in victory the sixth game of the final series, in which CSKA stood on the edge of a precipice, wards Kvartalnova frankly panicked and allowed the Urals to translate the game into overtime. You can lament the inexperience of the performers or the panic of the coaching staff, which handed down the players, but the fact remains: CSKA has been and remains the favorite smooth championship, but has not yet become a cup team

embarrass our forecasters could and deceptively easy way to CSKA to. finals. Having lost only one match in three rounds, “Army men” appeared peremalyvatelyami any opponent, that will get them on their way. However, even in the first round of the series with “Slovan” things have evolved Kvartalnova gang is not as easy as it might seem from the final invoice 4-0. Problems in order to crack the defense and win in the long run, accompanied by CSKA throughout the playoffs. Is it any wonder that the match number 3 saved, “CSKA” helped a blooper Koshechkina, and in a decisive battle Muscovites for the entire third period created half the time? Straightness, which for a long time seemed only a side effect of almost perfect mechanism, eventually destroyed the main favorite of the season.

Now, after CSKA defeat (or victory “MMK”, as you like), you can repeat the thesis, that we are in the material “stripped threads. CSKA Why not save the final with “Magnitogorsk”? “Before the sixth game of the series. As it turned out, then the “CSKA” only postponed the sad end, but the problem after the goal Michael Yunkova will not evaporate. The very “twisted nuts” Kvartalnova seem CSKA and destroyed.

Dmitry V. has not been able to find a balance between the pumping players and their emancipation. Whatever Boris Mikhailov said that this defeat is not coaching, it Quarterly bears the main responsibility for this result. Do not play in their strength and Alexander Radulov , for which he has already managed to repent.

Even as Ilya Vorobyov sang another championship song, Sergei Mozyakin the first time in a long time, was interviewed, and Ian Jan Kovář poured champagne on the head Gennady Velichkin , we write why CSKA lost, not why won “Metallurg”. Probably everyone who mentally or publicly put to 4-0 in the series in favor of the “army” is now digging in itself. Nevertheless, it is impossible not to note the tremendous work that has done the youngest champion coach in the history of the KHL. For some reason, it assumed that Vorobyov continued the work of Keenan and with bated breath, trying not to breathe in the direction of his structure. Yes, but without the construction of a modern defense that “Metallurg” grafted successor to Iron Mike, the CSKA did not go through. Partly sacrificing creativity, Ilya Petrovich markedly increased organization of the game. This pragmatic and balanced “MMK” only vaguely resembled the team romantics, that two years ago defeated in seven games “Lion”. And finals 2014 and 2016 combines except that timing. In all other respects they are bright antipodes.

Of course, we should not disown Keenan heritage or deny that Mozyakin defeated in a duel Radulov leaders, but above all it is a victory Vorobyev, who found the same antidote to CSKA hockey. All final, except for confusion in the starting game, his players kept the level of rigidity and read the winners of the “regular season” like an open book. Cocktail of tactical proficiency and dedication resulted in 35 (!) Blocked shots in the final match. His victory “MMK” was successful in the competition Igor Eronko , who walked his counterpart on the “Sport-Express” Paul Klimovitsky due to the fact that the set of winning Urals seven and at six games. Pavel Lysenko from the “Soviet Sport” and Andrey Kuznetsov from the “Sportfakta” Guess the score of the final series at one point broke out of the middle peasants in the leaders and finished in four. Revision “Championship”, in contrast to the invited experts almost unanimously believed in the triumph of CSKA. Decoupling in the Gagarin Cup final, had no effect on the final decomposed and left Paul Panysheva in the status of the most visionary journalist of our portal. The only one who believed in “Magnitogorsk”, turned out to be Alexander Rozhkov . From now on, we will listen to the views of our colleagues even more closely than in quotes bookmakers.