Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk beat Sibir Novosibirsk 3-2 in regulation, flipping the game with a two-goal third period. Trailing 1-2 after 40 minutes, the hosts scored twice in the final frame to take it without needing overtime.
Rafael Bikmullin opened the scoring in the 17th minute off a feed from Evgeny Mityakin, and Maksim Sushko answered at the 20th, assisted by Ilya Lyuzenkov, for a 1-1 first period. Yegor Korshkov put Sibir ahead in the 31st with Nekolenko Arkhip assisting, and the turning point came in the 43rd when Damir Zhafyarov, set up by Andrei Al. Belozyorov, tied it 2-2; Neftekhimik added the unassisted-in-the-record go-ahead goal in the 54th.
The number that defines it: 2-0 in the third period, the only frame either side won outright. Zhafyarov's equalizer was the pivot, and Belozyorov's assist on it was the setup that turned a one-goal deficit into a one-goal win.