Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist beat Torpedo in the KHL championship match

Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg defeated Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the home match of the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). The meeting took place on October 29 and ended with a score of 3:2 in favor of the ice masters, the winner was determined in a shootout.

In the main time, Maxim Tarasov scored goals for Avtomobilist in the fifth minute and Alexander Kadeikin in the 20th. Egor Vinogradov scored for the visitors in the 27th minute and Sergey Goncharuk in the 45th. Jordan Gross made the decisive shot in the shootout.

For the Yekaterinburg club, this success was the fourth in a row, which is the team's best streak this season. After 20 meetings, Avtomobilist scored 22 points and is on the fourth line in the Eastern Conference standings. Torpedo is in third place in the West with 27 points after 20 games.

Avtomobilist will play their next game at home on October 31 against Metallurg Magnitogorsk. Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo will play away from Spartak Moscow on November 1.

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On the same day, the CSKA Moscow hockey club beat Traktor Chelyabinsk with a score of 5:1 in the home match of the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League.