HC Sochi beat Salavat Yulaev Ufa 6-3 in regulation, and the game turned on a six-minute burst either side of the second intermission. Sochi scored three times between the 43rd and 46th minutes to break a game Ufa had briefly led.
Matvey Guskov opened it at 8 for 1-0 off a Ilya Fedotov feed, and Ufa answered in the middle period through Yegor Suchkov at 25 and Dean Stewart at 30 to lead 1-2. Yegor Petukhov tied it at 38 and Gage Quinney made it 3-2 at 40, the period closing 3-2 and the third opening with Petukhov again at 43, Artur Gizdatullin at 45 and Timur Khafizov at 46 for 6-2.
Guskov finished with a goal and two assists, the only three-point night on the sheet, and Petukhov's two goals in a six-minute window of game time were the difference. Artyom Nabiyev's goal at 57, assisted by Denis Orlovich-Grudkov, only trimmed it to 6-3.