Avangard won the series with Metallurg and advanced to the final of the Eastern Conference

On Thursday, March 23, Omsk hockey players played the fourth match of the Vostok semi-final series with Metallurg 4:1. Thus, they won the series as a whole with a score of 4:0.

On March 23, Avangard again met with Magnitogorsk in the semi-finals of the Vostok conference and won. The score of the meeting is 4:1.

According to the press service of the “hawks”, the guests, contrary to expectations, opened the score themselves, and very quickly – at the 48th second of the meeting. On the “patch” she was finished off by Tolchinsky, who flew there. Five minutes later, Omsk has not yet implemented the majority. Before the break, the Urals still managed to level the score. Dronov threw a touch into the far corner.

2:1 in favor of the “hawks” was already in the second period, at the 29th minute. Bush in that episode scored into an empty net.

Well, the final score was set in the third period. Boucher, Tkachev and Knight rolled into a counterattack. Vladimir made one throw, unsuccessfully, then the second attempt was made by Reid and thus scored a double – 3:1!

There were still 13 minutes left. During this time, the Urals tried very hard to win back, as a result, Avangard had many chances for counterattacks. Metallurg was not helped by the assault with six after replacing the goalkeeper with a field player. Because he just missed the empty net. There, the author of the goal was Alex Broadhurst. 4-0 in the series – Avangard in the Gagarin Cup semi-finals! By the way, this is his third visit there in the last five years.

Further, the opponent of Omsk in the final of the “East” is not yet known. But it is 90% likely that it will be Kazan – Ak Bars leads 3:1 in its series with Admiral.

“Vanguard” with a victory, they were better in details. First of all, in the implementation, we were punished for the slightest mistake. We weren’t able to reveal our attacking potential to the end due to the fact that the opponent played very tightly. We had most of the shots in them, ”Metallurg head coach Ilya Vorobyov assessed the meeting.

Earlier we reportedthat the Hawks won Game 3 of the series in overtime.