Lokomotiv won the fifth match in a row since the start of the season of the Kontinental Hockey League

In the next match of the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League, Yaroslavl Lokomotiv outplayed the Chelyabinsk Tractor at a party - 4: 1. The current winner of the Gagarin Cup began the new season with five consecutive victories, reports sb.by.

Polar bears, of course, really wanted to stop the victorious march of the railway workers. And after two periods on the scoreboard was equality - 1: 1. However, the third game period was completely left to the guests.

The winners were distinguished by Georgy Ivanov (39th minute), Ilya Nikolaev (51), Matvey Kotkov (59) and Alexander Radulov (60), who scored his 300th goal in the league. And among the losers, the author of the capture of the gate was Artemy Nizameev (34).

Belarusian defender of Lokomotiv Stepan Falkovsky did not score score.

Of all the KHL squads, only the Yaroslavl team retains zero in the “Defeat” column, so that Dmitry Kvartalnov’s wards now top the Western Conference table with ten points.

In another game of the day, which ended by this time, Omsk Avangard defeated Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist on its ice - 3: 2 (in overtime). At 19:30, the match SKA (St. Petersburg) – Shanghai Dregons began.

Minsk “Dynamo” this season suffered four defeats in four fights. Our team lost to the Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo (3: 4, according to the Bullitts), Shanghai Dregons (3: 4, in overtime), Dynamo Moscow (2: 3, in Bullitts) and Togliatti Lada (2: 4). Now the “teeth” are preparing for home matches against Novosibirsk “Siberia” (18 September) and “Automobilist” from Yekaterinburg (20 September).

According to the results of the regular championship 2025/2026, the Belarusian squad scored 88 points and finished on the second line in the table of the Western Conference immediately after the future champion - Yaroslavl Lokomotiv. At the stage of the 1/8 finals, the “teeth” won the series against Moscow teammates with a dry score of 4: 0, but in the quarterfinals, the Minsk Dynamovites lost four times to the Kazan “Ak Bars”. In the overall table of the Kontinental Hockey League, the white-blues took fifth place for the first time in history.