Athletistic/Hockey. CSKA Moscow in the game for the opening Cup of the Kontinental Hockey League confidently dealt with Metallurg Magnitogorsk – 6:2.

In the first half, the Magnitogorsk club took the lead thanks to goals from Akolzin and Koshelev, but already in the second twenty-minute period, the army team sent five unanswered goals into the guest gates . Grigorenko, Karnaukhov, Pankratov, Plotnikov and Yurtaikin stood out. In the third period, Grigorenko scored a brace and set the game’s final score.

This is CSKA’s second victory in the Opening Cup. The army team had already won the trophy in 2015.