The meeting took place in Moscow at the CSKA Arena and ended with a score of 5: 2 in favor of Alexey Zhamnov's charges.

As part of the Russian team, Mikhail Grigorenko scored a double, scoring goals in the 15th and 38th minutes, and also Arseniy Gritsyuk (1st), Daniil Vovchenko (8th) and Artyom Anisimov (40th) scored once.

Jan Kovar (19th) and Milan Gulas (48th) scored the goals of the guests.

On December 19, Russia will play as part of the Euro Hockey Tour home stage with Finland.

Earlier, the President of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation (FHR) Vladislav Tretyak spoke about the possible final match between Russia and Canada at the OI-2022.