CSKA Moscow took a 4-3 decision in Vladivostok, the game settled in a shootout after 3-3 through regulation and a scoreless overtime. The visitors were pushed to the limit but won the only period that produced a difference — the skills competition, which they took 1-0.
Denis Gurianov opened it at 12 off a Nikolai Kovalenko feed for a 1-0 CSKA lead after twenty. Admiral flipped it in the second with Dmitri Mukhtarov at 27 and Yegor Chezganov at 30, before Klim Kostin answered at 35 to make it 2-2. The turn came late: Kostin again at 58 for 3-2, then Anthony Camara at 59, set up by Daniel Usmanov, forced overtime at 3-3.
Kostin was the difference-maker in regulation with both CSKA equalizer and go-ahead goals, each assisted by Pavel Karnaukhov. Admiral scored in each of the last two periods and got the tying goal with a minute left, but had nothing in the shootout.