JHC Molot took a 4-3 decision in Astana, settled in regulation on the back of a two-goal third period. Snezhnye Barsy matched them through 40 minutes; the visitors found the extra goal when the margins got thin.
Each of the first two periods split 1-1, leaving it 1-1 after 20 minutes and 2-2 after 40. The third broke 1-2 in Molot's favor, with goals logged in the 48th and 51st minutes after Astana's 41st-minute strike, and that stretch was the game.
The number that frames it: three periods, and Molot scored in all three while never conceding more than one in any of them. Scorers and assists were not recorded, so the credit sits with a road group that produced two goals inside four minutes in the third.