Overview
- Metallurg Magnitogorsk beat SKA Saint Petersburg 5–1 in Magnitogorsk, with goals from Dmitry Silantyev, Alexander Petunin, Artem Minulin, Sergey Tolchinsky and Derek Barach.
- The victory extends Metallurg’s winning streak to five games and keeps the club atop the Eastern Conference, while SKA remains seventh in the West with 49 points after Markus Phillips scored their lone goal.
- CSKA Moscow rallied from 0–2 down to defeat the Shanghai Dragons 3–2 in Moscow, led by a Prokhor Poltapov brace and a goal from Maxim Sorkin.
- Jake Bischoff and Nate Sucese scored for the Dragons, who marked their 600th KHL game and sit ninth in the West on 43 points as CSKA holds fifth on 52.
- The Dragons’ home game against Sochi has been moved from January 12 to January 29 due to force majeure cited by Sochi, with the match to be played at the Dragons’ Saint Petersburg home arena; SKA is scheduled to visit the Dragons on January 12 and Metallurg hosts Sochi on January 14.