CSKA couldn't score in the first period. The Moscow Region club upset Alexander Sharychenkov three times in five minutes. Scott Wilson scored a double, Vladislav Kara also scored a puck.
The CSKA team started the chase in the second period. As befits the captain, Nikita Nesterov scored on the power play with an assist from Konstantin Okulov. And already at the end of the period, Andrey Svetlakov made up ground to a minimum. Total shots on goal for the period were 25-1 in favor of CSKA.
In the third period, "Vityaz" managed to keep the winning score for a long time. But CSKA debutant Matvey Vasin weighed in on. The young striker of the CSKA team substituted a stick for Nikita Nesterov's throw — 3-3. Alas, almost four minutes later, Scott Wilson scored a hat-trick and put "Vityaz" ahead again.
The CSKA team continued to escalate and forced the challenger to make mistakes. First, Maxim Sorkin doubled and evened the score, followed by Andrei Svetlakov, who also scored his second goal of the game and CSKA took the lead. Nikita Nesterov, the captain who started the chase for "Vityaz", iced the game - the puck into the empty net. The winning 6:4 on the scoreboard.
