Metallurg Nk
Hero : Konstantin Baranov, who became the best sniper of the team. He scored 4 points (3 + 1).
Unlucky : Konstantin Baranov, who, despite the above, was still expelled from the club.
"AK Bars"
Hero : Alexander Stepanov, who has scored a goal in every match. In a team with such a first link (be it with or without Zinoviev) it is worth a lot.
Unlucky : Alexander Eremenko. This goalkeeper was not allowed to play a minute even in a match against a “plush” opponent.
The Knight
Hero : Igor Radulov, who scored the only goal in 180 gaming minutes. No one else can be singled out in this team.
Antihero : Reed Simpson, who played roughly against Alexei Cherepanov. After the episode in the second game, even “colleague” Andrei Nazarov opposed him, saying that the Canadian walks on stripteases and leaves at least $ 800 there. Is this an individual dance?
Vanguard
Hero : Norm Maracl and Alexander Fomichev, who played one “dry” match. Now Valery Belousov will have a hard time defining the main goalkeeper.
Unlucky : You can only sympathize with Cherepanova, whom Simpson “ran into”.
SKA
Hero : Maxim Sushinsky, fighting for himself and his salary, like a lion. But what can he alone?
Antihero : Igor Emeleev, who did not realize the bullet in the last meeting against Salavat Yulaev.
"Salavat Yulaev"
Hero : Michal Mikeska - the author of the winning shootout in the third match.
Unlucky : Dmitry Meleshko, who received a finger fracture. For him, the season is over.
HC MVD
Hero : Vitaliy Sitnikov, who became the team's top scorer in the first round of the playoffs - 2 goals.
Antiheroes : Club Management. They took and started a change of coach during the series.
Metallurg Mg
Hero : Yaroslav Kudrna. His 3 goals and 4 assists in three matches will certainly add a headache to Sergei Kotov, head coach of Magnitka’s future rival.
Antihero : Rinat Ibragimov. The young defender, who played the season with dignity, could not stand the test of the playoffs and made a lot of mistakes, bringing the experienced partner Vladislav Bulin into a rage.
Neftekhimik
Hero : Petri Vehanen, who did everything for his team to reach the next round. But he did not wait for the support of partners.
Antihero : Ayrat Kadeikin, head coach. They say that he never learned to properly conduct pre-game settings. Everyone played as they could.
"Siberia"
Hero : Sergey Kotov, who achieved the best result with the team in history. But this coach was rushed to write off after a failure in Tver.
Antiheroes : A pair of Gureni defenders - Karpovtsev, who completed the first round with a -2 rating. True, Alexander corrected himself by scoring a winning puck in the fourth game.
Lada
Hero : Stanislav Zhmakin. After a goal against CSKA Moscow, he was invited to the Russian team.
Antihero : Vasily Koshechkin. To put it mildly, he did not help the team in the first round of the playoffs.
CSKA
Hero : Alexei Simakov. Four goals in the regular season. And two goals in the playoffs. Moreover, it is still constantly released in the majority and minority. Key player of the team.
Antihero : Egor Mikhailov. With each match, it is becoming less and less clear how he gets into the roster.
"Dynamo"
Hero : Sergey Vyshedkevich spent this season very slurred, but in the playoffs he was the best of the defense players.
Unlucky : Denis Kulyash, who lost his job after the defeat.
"Locomotive"
Hero : Semen Varlamov. The goalkeeper has justified the confidence of the coaches. Although he was noticeably “shaking” in the last part of the regular season.
Unlucky : Ivan Nepryaev. The forward of the national team scored just one point (transfer) in three matches. Not the best result for a hockey player applying for a trip to the World Cup.
Severstal
Heroes : Mark Lamot missed just six goals in four games. And it’s not his fault that the season is over for the team.
Unlucky : Oleg Gubin. The hockey player, because of which the “Wings”, “Dynamo” and “Severstal” quarreled, did not score a single point in the playoffs and completed the series with the “-3” indicator.
"Chemist"
Hero : Sergey Borisov, who reduced his team to a performance before the series. The theater is the only thing until then they did not try to save the fading club. In the second round, you can try cinema and opera.
Antihero : Vadim Khomitsky. The defender, who until recently was a player in the national team, is now unrecognizable on ice.
In the quarter finals there are:
AK BARS - CHEMISTRY
Vanguard - Locomotive
SALAVAT YULAEV - CSKA
METALLURG Mg - SIBERIA
Matches will be held on March 20, 21, 23 and, if necessary, on March 24 and 26.
Alexey Shevchenko