Overview
- Dynamo won 8–4 in Chelyabinsk on December 7 to extend its KHL streak to six games.
- Nikita Gusev produced two goals and four assists and became the fourth player to reach 600 regular-season KHL points.
- Dynamo’s scorers were Jordan Weal (two), Maxime Comtois, Artem Shvets-Rogovoy, Anton Slepyshev, Egor Rimashevsky and Gusev (two).
- Traktor’s goals came from Mikhail Goryunov-Rolgizer, Alexander Rykov and Egor Korshkov, who scored twice late.
- The result puts Dynamo at 46 points in fourth place in the West, while Traktor sit sixth in the East on 35 points with four straight losses; next up after the Channel One Cup break is Dynamo vs. Spartak on December 16 and Traktor vs. Metallurg on December 19.