HC Khimik Voskresensk handled Olympia Kirovo-Chepets 5-1 on the road, a game settled in regulation and effectively over by the second intermission. Khimik scored in all three periods and never trailed.
The visitors took a 0-1 lead in the 17th minute and then broke it open in the middle frame with goals in the 23rd and 24th, going to the second break up 0-3. The third period was the highest-scoring of the night — Khimik added markers in the 48th and 53rd, with Olympia's only reply coming in the 50th on the way to the 1-5 final.
The number that frames it: four of Khimik's five goals came in a stretch spanning the second and third periods, while Olympia managed a single goal across 60 minutes. Khimik won each period on the scoreboard — 0-1, 0-2 and 1-2.