Angarsk Ermak ended the home stage of the Russian hockey championship brightly, beating Chelyabinsk Mechel 5 to 1. The win put the team into the Easts top eight and the playoffs, where the title race continues in knockout games.
Another home victory. Angarsk’s “Ermak” defeated Chelyabinsk’s “Mechel.” The final match of the Russian ice hockey championship was held yesterday in the city of petrochemists. The home team confidently beat the visitors 5:1.The statistics are as follows: in the second stage of the national championship, out of 51 possible points, the hockey players from the city of petrochemists added 34 to their tally. And in home games, “Ermak” lost only two points during this time. The Angarsk team rightfully made it into the top eight teams of the “East” and will continue the fight for the championship title, now in the playoff games - elimination matches.
Goals against “Mechel” were scored by Sergei Khramov, Ruslan Abdrahmanov, Nikolai Zolotukhin, and Andrei Ogorodnikov. The Angarsk team now has 61 points. The next stage for “Ermak” is the playoff matches. On March 5, they will play away in Perm against the local club “Molot-Prikamye.”