CSKA defeated Torpedo in the KHL match

Moscow hockey club (HC) CSKA beat Nizhny Novgorod HC Torpedo in the home match of the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). The meeting in Moscow on November 11 ended with a score of 5:1.

Nikolay Kovalenko scored a double, also scoring an assist. Klim Kostin, Maxim Sorkin and Prokhor Poltapov each scored one goal. Sergey Goncharuk scored the only goal of the guests in the last minute of the meeting.

CSKA won its third consecutive victory over Torpedo this season and scored 39 points, retaining first place in the Western Conference. Nizhny Novgorod residents occupy the third place with 31 points.

Torpedo's next match will be against Lada on November 13, and CSKA will face Amur on November 16, the Sport-Express newspaper notes.

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On November 9, St. Petersburg HC SKA scored a major victory over Moscow HC Spartak in a home match of the KHL regular season. The match ended with a score of 7:1 in favor of the hosts. They scored five goals in the first period, and Nikita Nedopekin scored a double. Maxime Comtois scored Spartak's only goal. The victory allowed SKA to break a series of six defeats in matches with the red and white.