Traktor Chelyabinsk won 4-2 in Moscow, decided in regulation and effectively decided inside a three-minute stretch of the middle period. Trailing 2-1, the visitors scored three times between the 36th and 38th minutes and never gave the lead back.
Vladislav Valentsov opened the scoring in the second minute off a Nikita Soshnikov feed, and Mikhail Maltsev answered at 6 to make it 1-1 after twenty minutes. Danil Pivchulin, assisted by Yegor Filin, put Spartak up 2-1 at 33, but Alexei Rykmanov tied it at 36, Alexander Rykov made it 2-3 at 37 and Mikhail Grigorenko finished the sequence at 38 for 2-4. The third period produced no goals.
The number that frames it: 3-1 Traktor in the second period, all three of their goals in a 180-second window. Soshnikov was the connective tissue with two assists, on the Valentsov and Rykmanov goals; Grigorenko's marker, set up by Grigori Dronov, was the insurance Spartak never touched.