SKA, who played at home, conceded first: already in the 3rd minute of the meeting, Andrei Belevich put the Nizhny Novgorod team ahead. The hosts responded to this with two abandoned washers at once: Vasily Glotov equalized the score, and Mikhail Vorobyov put the team ahead.
In the second period, “Torpedo” through the efforts of Artem Mikheev restored equality, but almost immediately failed again – Emil Galiev realized his chance.
In the remaining time of the second period, the teams scored twice: Nikita Kamalov and Nikita Gusev in SKA and Belevich and Nikolai Kovalenko in Torpedo.
In the third period, the score did not change: 6:5 in favor of SKA, which took the series lead 2-0. The next two matches will take place in Nizhny Novgorod.
In Kazan “Ak Bars” won a decisive victory over the “Admiral”. In the first period, Anton Berlev led the Vladivostok club forward, after the break Ilya Safonov restored equality, and in the 54th minute Vadim Shipachyov scored a winning puck for Kazan – 2: 1.
The score in the series was 2-0, the next two matches will take place in Vladivostok.
