“Shanghai Dregons” was stronger than “Automobilist” in the match of the KHL championship

In one of the three matches of the game day in the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League, the Chinese Shanghai Dregons defeated the Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist. The match in St. Petersburg ended with the score 3: 2, reports sb.by.

Literally the day before yesterday, on September 20, the Urals held an extremely energy-consuming game against Dynamo Minsk (3: 5). And for the Dragons, today's meeting was the first since September 15. Mitch Love's wards had an advantage in freshness. And perhaps this was the decisive factor that influenced the outcome.

In the composition of the “Shanghai Dragons” distinguished Brett Murray twice (1st, 41st minutes) and Dmitry Yashkin (37). The Avtomobilist responded with goals from Alexander Kadeikin (7) and Daniel Spong (60).

The Belarusian striker of the team from Yekaterinburg Roman Gorbunov noted as an assist.

In other meetings on Tuesday, September 22, in the KHL championship, Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo defeated Omsk Avangard - 5: 1, and Dynamo Moscow lost to Barys from Astana - 1: 4.

Minsk “Dynamo”, who won the last two matches, the day after tomorrow, September 24, will fight away with Moscow teammates. Now the wards of Sergey Brylin with seven points after six games are located on the seventh position in the table of the conference “West”.

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.