Dinamo St. Petersburg secured a 2-1 regulation win over AKM-Junior Novomoskovsk, carrying the game with an early strike and a decisive third-period goal. The visitors set the tone at 1:00 and managed the match well enough to keep the home side at arm's length.
The opening goal came inside the first minute, and the teams played a scoreless second period, leaving Dinamo with a 1-0 lead through 40 minutes. In the third, Dinamo added to their lead at 43:00, and AKM answered a minute later at 44:00, but the visitors' cushion held in regulation.
The defining detail was the early opener and the quick exchange in the third, with goals at 43:00 and 44:00. That one-goal gap at the final horn sums up a match where Dinamo's timely scoring was the difference.