HC Kaluga edged Buran Voronezh 1-0 in regulation, settling a scoreless standoff with a single third-period goal. It was the kind of night where one puck was always going to be the whole story.
Neither side scored through 40 minutes, with the scoreboard reading 0-0 after the first and again after the second. The breakthrough came at the 53rd minute, Kaluga finally converting to make it 1-0 and leaving Buran barely seven minutes to respond.
The defining number is zero: Buran never found the back of the net, and Kaluga's goaltending carried a shutout through 60 minutes. One goal, one result.