MOSCOW, 23 Mar – The goalkeeper of the Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo” Adam Huska did not play a single match in the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) due to an injury, he will have to undergo surgery on his hip, said after the defeat from SKA in the 1/4 finals, the head coach of Avtozavodtsev Igor Larionov .

Series “Torpedo” against SKA ended on Wednesday in Nizhny Novgorod. The St. Petersburg team won the fourth match of the confrontation with a score of 5:3 and prevailed in the entire series with a score of 4-0. All matches of the 1/8 and 1/4 finals of the Gagarin Cup against Torpedo were played by Ivan Kulbakov.

“Because the game in the playoffs can be tough and unfair, when someone knows about the injury, they take any step to take the goalkeeper out of the game. Kulbakov in this case. This was the case with both Semyon Varlamov and Nikolai Khabibulin, it requires three to six months of recovery, “the coach added.

Kulbakov has played 42 games in the regular season and 10 games in the playoffs this season. In the regular season, the goalkeeper has 24 wins and two shutouts, and four wins in the playoffs. Huska has played 28 matches this season, in which he won 14 victories and scored two shutouts.