Overview
- Moscow Dynamo beat Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2–0 on Dec. 25, with Anton Slepyshev reaching 300 KHL points and goalie Maksim Motorygin posting his fourth shutout of the season and eighth in the league.
- Goals from Slepyshev and Nikita Gusev sealed the win as Dynamo moved to 53 points in the West, one behind conference leader Lokomotiv; Dynamo visits Dinamo Minsk on Dec. 28 and Lokomotiv hosts Torpedo on Dec. 30.
- SKA St. Petersburg won 4–1 at Dinamo Minsk on Dec. 26, with Brendan Leipsic, Matvei Polyakov, and a Mikhail Vorobyov brace scoring as SKA rose to sixth in the Western Conference with 45 points.
- Zenit Kazan edged Zenit St. Petersburg 3–2 in the semifinal and defeated Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 3–1 in the Dec. 26 final to secure a third straight Supercup and an 11th overall in the event’s first four-team edition, held in St. Petersburg and dedicated to coach Vyacheslav Platonov.
- In the women’s league on Dec. 26, Tulitsa defeated Lokomotiv Kaliningrad 3–1 in Tula, snapping Lokomotiv’s four-match winning run and leaving the sides seventh and fifth in the table respectively.