MOSCOW, December 30 – RIA Novosti. Moscow region “Vityaz”, in the home ground of the regular season of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), St. Petersburg defeated SKA in overtime.

The match, which took place in Balashikha, ended in 6:5 (1:1, 4:1, 0:3, 1:0) favors in overtime. Stepan Starkov (20th and 35th minutes), Alexander Yaremchuk (30), Tyler Graovac (32), Alexey Volgin (39) and Vladimir Galuzin (65) scored goals for Vityaz. Among the guests, Igor Ozhiganov (10), Dmitry Yashkin (39, 49), Marat Khairullin (43) and Mikhail Vorobyov (45) scored.

With the score 2:4 at the end of the second period, the army team pushed the goalkeeper away by majority and sent the fifth puck into the empty nets. During the match, SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg changed goalkeepers twice.

SKA leads the Western Conference standings with 74 points, while Vityaz (48 points) is sixth. The Moscow Region team will host the Chinese Kunlun in the next match on January 3, while the Petersburgers will face Traktor in Chelyabinsk the next day.

In another match, Cherepovets “Severstal” beat “Torpedo” 3:2 at home, breaking Nizhny Novgorod’s six-game winning streak.