The meeting, held in Podolsk, ended with the score 3: 2 in favor of the guests.
In the main time, Anton Belov and Sergey Plotnikov scored for SKA. As part of Vityaz, Ville Lajunen and Alexey Makeev distinguished themselves.
In two overtime the teams did not reveal the strongest, and in the third victory for SKA the goal was scored by Lucas Bengtsson.
The score in the series of up to four victories was 4-0 in favor of SKA, which, thus, reached the second round of the playoffs, where it would play with the winner of the Jokerit series - Lokomotiv.
Earlier it was reported that Lokomotiv beat Yokerit and reduced the backlog in the KHL playoffs.