The key facts

  • CSKA beat Traktor 5:1 in Moscow and moved into first place in the Western Conference with 30 points
  • Traktor has 18 points and sits 10th in the East
  • The return game is on November 1 in Chelyabinsk, starting at 14:00 Moscow time

Match recap in Moscow

CSKA Moscow defeated Traktor Chelyabinsk 5:1 in a KHL regular-season game, Gazeta.Ru reports. For the winners, goals were scored by Maxim Mamin, Dmitry Samorukov, Ivan Drozdov, Nazar Privalov and Marat Khairullin; the lone goal for the Chelyabinsk side came from Boris Katchuk.

Standings and upcoming games

The win lifted the Army Men into first place in the Western Conference — they now have 30 points. Traktor, with 18 points, sits tenth in the East. The teams won't have to wait long for a rematch: on November 1 they will face each other again, this time in Chelyabinsk, with the puck dropping at 14:00 Moscow time. Before that, Traktor will play an away game against Minsk Dynamo on October 30 (19:10 Moscow time).

Context

The reigning KHL champion remains Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, which won the Gagarin Cup for the second season in a row — in the final series it beat Ak Bars Kazan 4-2. The Gazeta.Ru article also mentions an incident involving an Avtomobilist player who lost consciousness after a collision with a teammate; no details of this case are given in the publication.