Dynamo Moscow - Ak Bars: betting tip (cf 1.62) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

In the Western Conference, the March plot turned out to be very famously twisted: the teams are so tightly positioned in the table and there are so many unexpected results that there is only one round left until the end of the regular season, and not a single cup pair of the first round of the playoffs has yet been decided, and only two teams out of the eight playoff participants have secured places that will not change: Lokomotiv First, and CSKA The fourth one. Dynamo Moscow is currently on the fifth line, but it may end up on the sixth or seventh, depending on the result of its game with Ak Bars and the results of Torpedo and SKA in their recent matches.

Dynamo had a good time in February and March, scoring 21 points in 15 matches and defeating direct competitors in the top eight of the West Spartak (twice), SKA and Torpedo, and higher-ranked Metallurg, Avtomobilist and Dinamo Minsk. The blue and white team had a four-game winning streak from March 9 to March 16. However, on March 18, in a home game with Admiral, who had lost hopes for the playoffs and was finishing the season, they unexpectedly lost (1:2) and missed a good opportunity to compete with CSKA for fourth place and for the right to their ice in the first round of the relegation games.  

Disqualifications and injuries

Kirill Gotovets and Fredrik Klasson will miss the upcoming match.

Interesting betting trends

• On average, Dynamo gets 7.25 minutes of penalty time.
• According to statistics, Muscovites win 50.3% of face-offs.

Current form

Tatarstan's main team will advance to the playoffs from third place in the Eastern Conference, where it will begin its first-round series with two home meetings with Traktor Chelyabinsk. This certainty allows the coaching staff to calmly plan preparations for the upcoming most important matches of the season. To get an idea of the team's current form, let's look at the matches it played in March. Kazan defeated Traktor (1:0) and HC Sochi (4:2), lost to Lada (3:5) and Severstal (2:4); defeated Siberia (6:3), Spartak (4:1) and HC Sochi (2:0) on home ice – That's a total of 10 points in seven meetings with a goal difference of 22-15.

The result should be assessed as good, but it is worth considering that the main tournament task had already been solved by the beginning of March, and that there were no leading teams among his rivals this season, except perhaps Severstal. It is interesting to analyze, so to speak, the team's playing rhythm in 2026. Ak Bars starts and finishes matches strongly: in the first periods, the ratio of goals scored and conceded is 31-14, in the third 28-15. And you can't say that about the middle of the match, the difference in the second period is negative 22-24. And one more observation: seven Ak Bars matches in January and February went beyond the regular time. Of these, two ended in overtime (one in favor of Kazan, one lost), and Ak Bars lost in all five shootout series. However, this hardly bothers the coaches, because post-match shootouts do not make their way to the playoffs.

Disqualifications and injuries

All the guest leaders will play in the Russian capital.

Interesting betting trends

• On average, Ak Bars performs 19 power moves per match.
• Kazan wins 54.5% of face-offs