Dinamo Minsk will play the first match of the 1/4 finals of the Gagarin Cup against Ak Bars Kazan today

The match starts at 19:30 at the Minsk Arena. At the 1/8 finals stage, the Belarusians won four times against their Moscow counterparts. (3:1, 4:1, 2:1, in overtime, 2:1, in the second overtime). The last five face-to-face meetings with the team from the capital of Tatarstan ended in favor of the "white-blue" (3:2, 3:1, 5:1, 4:3, 7:3). Following the results of the regular season, Dinamo Minsk scored 88 points and for the first time in history finished on the second line in the Western Conference table. Ak Bars Kazan became the third in the Eastern conference with 94 points.