The match, which took place at the CSKA Arena in Moscow, ended with a score of 5: 4 in favor of the army team.

As part of the winners, Pavel Karnaukhov scored a hat-trick, Brendan Lipsik scored a double.

Maksim Tsyplakov, Robin Ganzl, Andrei Kuteikin and Lukasz Radil scored with abandoned goals at Spartak.

CSKA won their fourth victory in a row.

Spartak suffered the first defeat in the last three matches.

Earlier, Lokomotiv beat Ak Bars and ended a series of three defeats in the KHL.