Spartak hockey player Belyaev scored the puck with his face in the KHL match

On October 14, Spartak Moscow striker Alexander Belyaev scored the puck with his face in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) regular season match against Amur Khabarovsk.

At the end of the first period, after a shot by defender Dmitry Vishnevsky, the puck hit the 27-year-old forward in the face and bounced into the opponent's goal.

Thanks to this goal, Spartak equalized the score in the match (1:1). At the same time, the red and white interrupted Amur's streak of 13 matches without conceding goals while playing in the minority.

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Dynamo Moscow defeated SKA St. Petersburg in a KHL home game on October 11. The match at the VTB Arena in Moscow ended in overtime with a score of 4:3 in favor of the home team. Nick Merkley scored a double for the winners, hitting the opponent's goal in the ninth and 48th minutes. Artyom Shvets-Rogovoy scored another goal in the second minute of the match.