Chemist Voskresensk
With obvious enthusiasm, the team of the Moscow region should expect the sixth match of the semi-final series. In the previous meeting, Grishina’s team managed to beat the rival with a score of 3:1 in a cautious away match. The sticky hockey in the 1st period with 5 knockouts was replaced with an extremely accurate 2nd and only 1 puck was abandoned in the first 40 minutes. In the last 20 minutes, the teams managed to score two more goals, one of which finally fell into an empty net.
Metallurgist Novokuznetsk
During the last visit to Voskresensk, the “forge” was able to play the most difficult swing match, snatching the victory in overtime. These efforts by Parkhomenko’s team proved futile given the result of the previous home fixture, and now Metallurg has no right to make a mistake as everything could be over for him in the upcoming match in this series. Of course, the guests will try to play first and score first, because the result in the series forces them to do so, but in this situation and on the opponent’s territory, I do not expect direct active zeal to attack and the next question is what the opponent will do in his zone with such an account .
Forecast
At such a high stage of the play-offs, every match is important, and there is nothing to discuss about the sixth game with the score 3:2 for the Grishina team. The “blue and yellow” can decide everything on their own ice, in front of their fans. Both coaching staffs will clearly pay special attention to the preparations for the decisive, perhaps decisive match for the hosts. Metallurg’s lack of room for error and Chemist’s unwillingness to fly back to Novokuznetsk should affect the reporting game where I don’t expect events to be pushed, a large number of dismissals and playing on a collision course similar to the last game when in the last 4 minutes of the match there were 3 out of 4 goals.