Moscow’s Spartak won the surrender and advanced straight to the semifinals of the Western Conference.
The joke of the jokers in KHL is over. The Eastern League will not elevate another team to the Jokerers in the playoffs. AOP
The Eastern KHL will have a good time deciding whether to replace the Jokers with another team in the playoffs. Does not replace.
The Jokers had to face Spartak Moscow in the opening round of the playoffs. As the Helsinki team dropped out of the season due to Russian hostilities, Spartak was declared the winner of the match series according to KHL rules. The team will continue their journey straight to the semifinals of the Western Conference.
The Torpedo Nizhni-Novgorod team was already ready for the playoffs, but the team’s season ended with a Saturday night practice game against SKA St. Petersburg.
Torpedo’s North American coaches and players quickly left home for St. Petersburg via Finland.
15 teams will take part in the playoffs.
Latvian Dinamo Riga announced on Sunday that the team will leave the KHL league due to Russian hostilities. It’s hard to see the Jokers playing in Vladimir Putin’s propaganda league next season either.
KHL is thus becoming Russian at a rapid pace.