Hockey players of the Volga Region University of Sports and Tourism will start in the playoff series of the SHL championship on April 2. In Tambov, the wards of Sergey Lukin will meet with the local team of the state University, the current champion of the SHL. The series will last up to two wins.
The opponent of the Kazan team was determined based on the results of the regular season. In the last round, the hockey players of the University of Sports lost both matches in the additional rounds to the students of the Nizhny Novgorod UNN, as a result of which they remained in second place in the Center division. And now the team of the Volga Region University will play with the owner of the first line of the division "West" - Tombovskaya "Derzhava".
As for the results of the regular season, the wards of Sergey Lukin entered the top five in Russia, taking fourth place.
"We have a very rejuvenated squad this season. For example, only we have a first-year student born in 2003 in our application. But the guy looks very good, promising, - says the head coach of the team of the Volga Region University Sergey Lukin. - Therefore, in general, we consider the result shown quite worthy. There are a few experienced guys left in the team who support and guide young people in terms of psychology, tactics and "physics". And in a difficult moment, they lead the guys behind them. So we have a young, ambitious team. We will fight in Tambov for the next round."
