After the away series to the Far East and Siberia, the CSKA team had several days to recover. 52 days after the injury-related break, Nordstrom returned to the ice. Prior to that, Yuakim played in the team list on September 10 in the match against Lokomotiv. The defenders Kiselevich and Svedberg returned to the lineup. Kotkov, Pankratov and Rtischev also found themselves in the application. For the first time, a 17-year-old defender, a graduate of the CSKA school Vladimir Grudinin received a red-blue jersey.
Kamenev shot from the right hand in the opening period, but the puck stopper deflected the puck. Then it was Reideborn who deflected Prince's shot with his leg pads. After that, Okulov made a shot from the blue line, but his shot was blocked by a defender. In the first period, the game was played toe-to-toe with few stoppages.
In the middle of the game, the puck hit the post after the same Prince's shot. In the second half of the period, CSKA moved the game to a foreign zone. On 14 minutes, Plotnikov's effort brought a result - the forward opened the scoring with assists from Okulov and Blazhievsky, and shot from the center into the corner of the cage.
Before going into the locker room, the CSKA team could have increased its lead. But shots by Andronov, Sergeev and Guskov fell to Shikin.
At the start of the second period, Okulov run to break even, but the puck did not fall on the attacker's stick. Closer to the middle of twenty minutes, the game leveled off, and a number of dangerous attacks were carried out by the guests. However, the reliable actions of Reideborn did not allow the opponent to show its best. The CSKA team also did not allow the Avtomobilist puck stopper to relax. At the end of one of the attacks, the puck hit Shikin's helmet after a shot by Karnaukhov.
At the beginning of the third period, Adam helped out after a dangerous shot from Da Costa. In the final third of the match, there was a lot of fighting near the side board. At the end of the match, the red and blue pressed the opponent to its cage, 8 minutes before the final siren, the earned the power play. And only the selfless play of the puck stopper and defenders of Yekaterinburg players did not allow our team to make score 2: 0.
With two minutes left in the match, the visitors removed their puck stopper and took a timeout with 45 seconds left. But CSKA's competent defensive actions did not allow the opponent to transfer the game into overtime.
Sergey Fedorov's team wins with a score of 1: 0. Sergei Plotnikov scores his 10th goal in the championship, and in total he has 18 (10 + 8) points. Adam Reideborn is making his third shutout of the season. In addition, CSKA has conceded the least of all teams in the League so far - 50 goals in 25 matches. It should be noted that the game was played correctly. In a stubborn duel there was only one penalty, the CSKA team played in a disciplined manner, avoiding penalties.
In the next game in Podolsk on November 5, our club will meet with "Vitiaz".
