SKA Varyagi handled Red Machine - Junior U20 4-1 in regulation, closing it out with a two-goal third period. The visitors scored in all three frames and never trailed.
SKA took the lead in the 11th minute and carried a 0-1 edge to the first intermission. The middle period was traded 1-1 — a visitor goal at 35 and a home answer at 38 — leaving it 1-2, and the game broke open in the third with SKA goals at 43 and 46.
The decisive number is the period-by-period split: SKA Varyagi won the first 0-1 and the third 0-2, with the only even frame the second. Red Machine's single goal, at 38 minutes, was their only dent in the scoresheet.