Severstal - Ak Bars: betting tip (cf 1.70) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

In the coming year, the Cherepovets team is demonstrating generally good results, allowing it to confidently enter the number of participants in the playoffs - 29 points in 25 matches. Now Cherepovets are second in the West, ahead of Dinamo Minsk by one point, but Minsk residents have a game in reserve. After a difficult away victory over Metallurg on February 24 (4-3, OT), Severstal's hockey mechanism stalled somewhat. This was followed by losses in matches with Torpedo at home (1:2), with Lokomotiv at home and away (2:3, B), (3:4, OT), and finally, after defeating modest Lada (3:1), an away fiasco in the game against SKA (0:5). The team's poor condition was confirmed by its head coach Andrey Kozyrev: Today, in principle, we had a lot of mistakes and mistakes. Nothing worked out for us. This match was also interesting because it was possible that these teams would make up a pair of one-eighth of the Gagarin Cup from the West.

Severstal, thus, suffered its fourth defeat in the last five matches, and SKA has its fifth victory in a row and a 3-1 victory in the season series with Severstal. For the Cherepovets team, this is the first goalless defeat in 2026 and the fourth of the season. In 2026, the team played eight overtimes (seven of them in away matches), of which they won five and lost one, and two more matches ended with Severstal losing in shootouts.

Disqualifications and injuries

Severstal will play in full strength.

Interesting betting trends

• According to statistics, Severstal gets 5.17 minutes of penalty time.
• Cherepovets players win 46.7% of face-offs on average.

Current form

The team from Kazan, with 90 points in 65 matches, feels comfortable in third place in the regular season in the Eastern Conference and has come close to the milestone of 200 goals scored. Kazan players are confidently moving along the tournament distance, not allowing themselves prolonged slumps. At the end of February, the Leopards slowed down somewhat, losing three games in a row, but they all brought the team one point each, because their fate was decided in a series of post-match shots. We are talking about matches with Torpedo (2:3, B), Lada (4:5, B) and Avtomobilist (2:3, B). However, in the next five matches held in March, four victories were won: over Traktor (1:0), Siberia (6:3), Spartak (4:1) and HC Sochi (2:0).

In the game against Sochi, Dmitry Yashkin scored one of the goals, which became the forward's eighteenth of the season and the two hundredth anniversary of his time in the KHL. Yashkin is among the best Ak Bars snipers along with Kirill Semenov (16), Alexander Khmelevsky (17), Mitchell Miller (19) and Alexander Barabanov (20). After the game with Severstal, Kazan completes the regular tournament with away matches against HC Sochi and Dynamo Moscow. 

Disqualifications and injuries

To date, Ak Bars has no problems with the squad.

Interesting betting trends

• According to statistics, Ak Bars wins 54.3% of face-offs
• On average, Ak Bars makes 19 power plays per game.