Tolpar UFA took this one 5-2, and the margin was built almost entirely in the third period. Through 40 minutes it was a one-goal game at 2-1; the home side then scored three times in the final frame to settle it in regulation.
Tolpar opened the scoring at 18 minutes and led 1-0 after the first. The middle period was traded 1-1, leaving the hosts up 2-1, and the turning point came in the third with Tolpar goals at 48, 55 and 56 minutes; Kuznetskie Medvedi answered late at 59, but by then the game was gone.
The number that carries it: 3-1 on the period-goals sheet in the third, and four of Tolpar's five goals came after the opening intermission. Kuznetskie Medvedi managed one goal in each of the last two periods and never led.