Minsk “Dynamo” beat SKA from St. Petersburg in the match of the championship of the Kontinental hockey League

In the next match of the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League, Dynamo Minsk broke the resistance of SKA from St. Petersburg - 4: 2. The Zubrs interrupted a series of three home defeats in games against this opponent, sb.by reports.

The wards of Sergei Brylin have long alternated defeats with victories. And today, on October 8, this trend was continued: after the failure in the last game against Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo (1: 2, according to the Bullitts), the Dynamo players were rehabilitated by Victoria over the SKA. So they came out on a positive balance of wins and losses in this home series (3-2).

The owners of the ice scored a double Stanislav Galiyev (29th, 35th minutes), another puck scored Xavier Welle (41) and Daniel Sotishvili (50). Dynamo Minsk striker Christopher Tierney scored two assists. Among the guests, the authors of the gate captures were Matvey Short (16) and Sergey Plotnikov (39).

Alex Limozh returned to Dynamo, for whom today’s match was the first in the current season of the Kontinental Hockey League. We also pay attention to the fact that goalkeeper Vasily Demchenko won the 40th victory in the “dents”.

For SKA coach Igor Larionov, today’s defeat was the first in Minsk for his entire coaching career in the KHL. Earlier, this specialist as the helmsman of Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo and SKA from St. Petersburg won all 11 meetings in the capital of Belarus.

The results of all matches of the game day in the championship of the Kontinental Hockey League: Tractor - Amur - 0: 2, Dynamo (Minsk) - SKA - 4: 2, Neftekhimik - Avangard - 0: 1, Torpedo - Severstal - 2: 3.

Next, Dynamo Minsk will hold guest matches against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (October 10) and Shanghai Dregons (October 12). And the next matches on the ice "Minsk-Arena" "teeth" will play against Magnitogorsk "Metallurg" (October 14) and Kazan "Ak Bars" (18 October). Now the “white-blue”, having 15 points after 13 meetings, occupy seventh place in the table of the Western Conference.

According to the results of the regular championship 2025/2026, the Minsk squad, we recall, scored 88 points and finished on the second line in the table of the conference “West” immediately after the 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.