CSKA beat Metallurg and became the owner of the Opening Cup

MOSCOW, Sep 1 The current winner of the Gagarin Cup CSKA defeated Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Opening Cup match — the first meeting of the new season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)01 September 2022 • Start at 19:00EndCSKARussia6 : 2Metallurg MgRussiaThe meeting in Moscow ended with the score 6:2 (0:2, 5:0, 1:0 ) in favor of the army. As part of Metallurg, goals were scored by Pavel Akolzin (9th minute) and Semyon Koshelev (14), after which Mikhail Grigorenko (21, 44), Pavel Karnaukhov (27), Semyon Pankratov (28), Sergey Plotnikov ( 38) and Danil Yurtaykin (39). In the 12th minute, the army forward Prokhor Poltapov was sent off before the end of the match for a dangerous blow to the head. At the 44th minute, a fight took place between the guests' defender Artem Minulin and the Red-Blues striker Maxim Sorkin.