On March 16, at the Sports Palace in Kazan, the Bars hockey club from VHL beat Rubin Tyumen and reached the championship playoffs for the first time in five seasons.

Thus, the Ak Bars farm became the fourth team in the Tatneft ice hockey vertical to play in the playoffs of its championship.

Earlier, Neftyanik from Almetyevsk and the youth team Irbis from Kazan had already qualified for the playoffs of VHL and JHL championships.

Ak Bars, the main team of the system, took the third place in the Eastern Conference of KHL regular season and advanced to the Gagarin Cup playoffs.