Salavat Yulaev Ufa beat Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 3-0 in regulation, and the game was effectively settled inside the opening ten minutes. Two goals in a 90-second stretch gave Ufa a cushion they never had to defend under real duress.
Maxim Zagrebin opened it at 6, set up by Yaroslav Tsulygin, and Denis Orlovich-Grudkov made it 0-2 a minute later, unassisted. Dean Stewart, from Yegor Suchkov, pushed it to 0-3 at 29, and the third period went scoreless — the turning point was the first-period burst, not anything late.
The number that matters: three different scorers, none of them repeating, and a clean sheet at the other end. Torpedo did not solve Ufa's structure once across sixty minutes.