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Hallowe’en turned into a nightmare for three teams: Sibir suffered a 1-7 drubbing at Avtomobilist, Admiral lost 0-5 at Salavat Yulaev and Barys allowed six goals in defeat at Traktor. The closest battle of the night was also the highest profile clash: Lokomotiv moved two points clear at the top of the Western Conference after edging a 3-2 verdict over SKA, which remains outside the playoff spots.

Dynamo Moscow blanked in-form Severstal, snapping the Western Conference leader’s hot streak after eight games. Dinamo Minsk also had a good evening, handing Amur its second 6-2 defeat in three days. Torpedo joins Severstal on 28 points in the West after a 2-0 win over Lada.

Ak Bars thrashed KHL leader Metallurg 4-0 to record a club record 11th straight victory in Wednesday’s big game. Salavat Yulaev also enjoyed a big win, beating Admiral 6-1, while Avangard edged Barys 4-3 to halt a two-game losing streak. The only Western Conference team in action, SKA, came out on top at home to Sibir.

Spartak grabbed a 3-2 derby win over CSKA thanks to a last-minute goal from Adam Ruzicka, while Lokomotiv scored twice in the last couple of minutes to come from behind and beat Lada by the same scoreline. There were big wins for Dinamo Minsk (8-2 vs Sochi), Severstal (6-2 vs Amur) and Dynamo Moscow (5-1 at Shanghai Dragons), while Avtomobilist edged a shoot-out verdict after a 1-1 tie at Traktor.

Ak Bars recorded a 10th successive victory, but left it late before claiming an overtime verdict against Admiral. Table-topping Metallurg eased to a 4-1 win at Avangard, with Vladimir Tkachyov making a goalscoring return to Omsk with his new club. Monday’s other game saw Neftekhimik beat Barys 3-2.

A seventh successive victory moved Severstal to the top of the Western Conference. Sunday’s 4-1 success over Shanghai has Andrei Kozyrev’s team on top. Torpedo is tied on 26 points after a 7-4 win over Avtomobilist: five goals on nine first period shots tipped this one in the home team’s favor. Nathan Todd scored twice for Spartak as Sochi fell to another loss, and CSKA made it four wins from four with a 2-1 verdict over Amur.

In-form Ak Bars has not lost in October and today’s 5-3 verdict over Admiral made it nine wins on the spin. Traktor became the first to win a shoot-out against Sibir this term after recovering from 1-3 in Novosibirsk. And Salavat Yulaev got a third straight win with a 2-1 success at Neftekhimik.

Matvei Korotky’s first KHL hat-trick helped SKA to a crushing 8-1 win over struggling Sochi. It was a second win in 10 games for the Petersburg club, while the Leopards fell to a seventh straight loss. Elsewhere, Dinamo Minsk edged a shoot-out success after a 1-1 tie with Shanghai Dragons. Barys beat Amur 3-1 at home in a battle between two playoff rivals in the East. Lada snapped a four-game skid thanks to a shoot-out verdict over Torpedo.

A 5-0 thrashing of Moscow rival Spartak was the perfect tonic for Dynamo after losing two of its last three. Vladislav Podyapolsky played a big role, stopping 33 shots. Anton Golyshev returned from his suspension as Avtomobilist beat Traktor 5-3, and Neftekhimik defeated table-topping Metallurg by the same scoreline. Yanni Kaldis scored twice in Omsk as Severstal recorded a sixth successive win, and Salavat Yulaev won 5-2 at Sibir.

Ak Bars edged a 1-0 verdict over Lokomotiv to secure an eighth successive victory and climb to second in the Eastern Conference. Torpedo goes second in the West after Shane Prince scored two late goals in a 3-1 win at Sochi. SKA lost for the seventh time in eight games, dropping a 3-4 verdict at home to CSKA. Lada paid the penalty at home to Dinamo Minsk, allowing three power play goals in a 0-4 loss.

The game of the day was in Moscow, where Spartak scored three goals in the last five minutes to tie with Shanghai before one-time Dragons hero Luke Lockhart potted a shoot-out winner. That result meant that Severstal jumped up to second in the Western Conference thanks to a 4-1 win at Admiral. Metallurg got past Sibir in overtime thanks to Vladimir Tkachyov’s second goal in two games. Salavat Yulaev snapped a five-game skid with victory over Traktor.

A 3-2 win at Dynamo, thanks to a three-point game from Alexander Volkov, saw Lokomotiv five points clear at the top of the Western Conference. Monday’s other game was also in Moscow, where CSKA beat Dinamo Minsk 5-3 thanks to three power play goals.

The highest-scoring game of the season to date saw Metallurg defeat Neftekhimik 9-6. An action-packed encounter brought three short-handed goals for the visitor, while the Steelmen had nine different goalscorers. Elsewhere, Severstal recorded a fourth straight win with a shoot-out success over Amur. Avangard edged Avtomobilist in overtime thanks to Konstantin Okulov, then Torpedo struck late to sink Lada.

Lokomotiv won 3-1 at SKA, leaving the Petersburg club out of the playoff spots in the West. Josh Leivo scored the winner for Traktor against his former club Salavat Yulaev, and Ak Bars made it seven straight wins with a shoot-out success at Barys.

Spartak’s 4-3 success at Admiral makes it 100 wins in the KHL for head coach Alexei Zhamnov. Avtomobilist got a welcome boost as Stephane da Costa and Brooks Macek scored their first goals after returning from injury, helping secure an overtime win at Sochi. There was OT in Minsk, too, where Neftekhimik grabbed a last-minute tying goal before winning in the extras. Spencer Martin and Maxim Dorozhko celebrated shut-outs, respectively helping CSKA win 1-0 at Torpedo and Amur down Lada 3-0.

Ak Bars reeled off a sixth straight win with a 4-1 success at Sibir. Barys scored six on Avangard to end its seven-game skid, and Metallurg kept up the theme with a 6-4 victory over Metallurg. The pattern was broken in St. Petersburg, where Dynamo beat Shanghai Dragons 3-2 in a shoot-out.

Wednesday’s big game was at Lokomotiv, where Gagarin Cup-winning head coach returned to Yaroslavl with his CSKA team for the first time since leaving the defending champion. The home team rose to the occasion, winning 4-1 to leave the Muscovites outside the playoff places. There was drama in St. Petersburg, where SKA saw a last-minute goal disallowed before tying its game against Neftekhimik: the verdict went to the visitor in a shoot-out. Avtomobilist welcomed back big-name forwards Stephane da Costa and Brooks Macek, but failed to score in a 0-2 loss at Severstal. Earlier, Admiral thrashed Lada 6-1 and Amur snatched a last-minute victory over Spartak.

The goals kept coming. In Chelyabinsk, Avangard beat Traktor 8-5 in a wild game. In Minsk, Dinamo racked up seven on Torpedo. Alexander Chmelevski’s marker for Ak Bars at Salavat Yulaev was perhaps the most resonant of the day; the American forward scored on his first return to his former club. Shanghai Dragons moved level with Lokomotiv at the top of the Western Conference thanks to a 3-2 win over Dynamo, while Sibir won its sixth shoot-out of the season at Barys.

Monday’s two games saw the end of two long streaks. SKA ended a run of five losses with a 2-1 victory over Avtomobilist, which had won its six previous games. And Severstal edged Lokomotiv 4-3 after the Railwaymen battled back hard from 0-4 at the second intermission.

Avangard won 5-1 in Magnitogorsk to halt Metallurg’s five-game winning run. Mike McLeod made his debut for the Hawks after agreeing a three-year deal with the Omsk club. Ak Bars posted a fourth successive win, beating CSKA 3-2 in Moscow on Alexander Barabanov’s power play goal. Sibir handed Neftekhimik a fifth successive loss with a shoot-out verdict, while Torpedo got back on form with a 5-3 result at Barys.

Traktor claimed a psychologically important 3-1 win over Lokomotiv, snapping an unhappy streak against the team that defeated it in last season’s Gagarin Cup final. In Saturday’s other game, Ryan Spooner shot down his former Dinamo Minsk clubmates with a goal and an assist in Shanghai Dragons’ 2-1 victory.

A thrilling Moscow derby saw CSKA jump to a 3-0 first-period lead at Dynamo, only for the home team to tie the game in the last three minutes. It went to a shoot-out, where Nikita Gusev gave the home team the verdict. Also in the capital, Spartak downed Salavat Yulaev to climb to second in the West. In the east it was a case of quick reunions. Evgeny Kuznetsov made his Metallurg debut and helped the Steelmen record back-to-back wins over Torpedo, while Avtomobilist beat Avangard for the second time in five days. Lada moved off the foot of the Western Conference with a 4-2 verdict over Sibir.

Shanghai Dragons had to dig deep to halt a Dinamo Minsk fightback. After blowing a 2-0 lead, the home team recovered to win it with a Borna Rendulic power play goal in the last minute. Traktor also took a 3-2 scoreline, edging past Barys in overtime. Severstal blanked Sochi in a 3-0 win and Amur came out on top at Neftekhimik for the second time in three days.

Avtomobilist made it five wins in a row with an OT success against SKA, and sent the Petersburg club spinning to a fifth successive loss. In Wednesday’s other game, Dynamo Moscow won 4-1 against Salavat Yulaev, halting Ufa’s mini-revival after two games.

Table-topping Metallurg rolled to a 5-1 win at Torpedo, cementing its position at the KHL summit. Spartak avenged last month’s defeat to Shanghai Dragons, blanking Gerard Gallant’s team in Moscow. Ak Bars kept up its winning streak, but had to withstand a third-period fightback before beating Barys 4-3. Nikita Mikhailov’s hot form helped Lada to a 3-1 win over Sochi, and Amur won 2-1 at Neftekhimik.

Dinamo Minsk’s 4-1 win over Traktor marked Vadim Shipachyov’s 900th KHL game, and head coach Dmitry Kvartalnov’s 600th victory. The Belarusians stay third in the West, behind Lokomotiv after the defending champion beat SKA 4-2 and bounced back from its disappointment in Omsk. Avangard could not build on that win over the Railwaymen, falling 1-4 at home to Avtomobilist.

It’s not how many shots you take, it’s how good those shots are. Metallurg had four goals from 10 shots midway through its 6-2 win at Spartak, and finished with six off 21. Dynamo Moscow also had a great conversion rate, winning 4-1 at Torpedo with just 16 shots on goal. Sibir and Barys could learn something: they had no goals from 69 shots between them before the home team secured a shoot-out win. Elsewhere, there was success for Salavat Yulaev over Sochi (3-1) and Ak Bars over Amur by the same scoreline. CSKA beat Severstal 3-2 and Nikita Tertyshny gave Admiral an overtime verdict at Lada.

Austin Wagner claimed three points on his KHL debut to help Shanghai Dragons edge a 5-4 OT verdict against Traktor. The Canadian winger scored twice and had an assist as he made a bright start to his career in the league. In Saturday’s other action, Avtomobilist won 5-2 at Neftekhimik to move ahead of its host in the Eastern Conference.

Avangard enjoyed a 4-1 win over Lokomotiv, defeating Bob Hartley on his KHL return to Omsk. Friday’s other big game saw Metallurg win 3-1 at CSKA, with Andrei Razin’s team defeating Igor Nikitin’s for the second time this season. SKA suffered a loss at Spartak by the same scoreline, Ak Bars thumped Amur 5-1 and Severstal won an entertaining game at Torpedo 5-3. Admiral’s 5-4 success at Sochi ended a four-game skid.

Last season’s beaten finalist fell to a shoot-out loss in at Dynamo despite retrieving a 0-2 deficit in the last 90 seconds of regulation. Vladislav Podyapolsky was denied a shut-out but claimed the verdict in his first appearance of the season. Earlier, Lada won for the first time in 10 games, beating Neftekhimik 4-1.

Avangard’s 6-1 win over Admiral will be remembered for the rare sight of two goalies getting to a fight: Andrei Mishurov and Adam Huska produced a more competitive contest than the two teams. For a sporting battle, St. Petersburg was the place: SKA led Torpedo 2-0 but fell to Igor Larionov’s previous club for the third time this season. Salavat Yulaev broke its six-game losing streak with a 5-2 verdict over Sibir, Severstal won by the same scoreline at Dinamo Minsk, and there was success for Lokomotiv at Barys and Avtomobilist over Amur.

Tuesday’s action brought a high-scoring game in Moscow, where Spartak defeated Traktor for the second time in 10 days. Pavel Poryadin had four points in a 6-3 success. Artur Tyanulin overtook Ilya Krikunov to become Sochi’s all-time scoring leader. He had two assists in a 4-0 win over struggling Lada, moving to 124 points for the Black Sea team.

After three straight losses, Torpedo won 5-2 at SKA and briefly joined Lokomotiv at the top of the Western Conference. However, the Railwaymen remain clear – but only by a single point after a shoot-out loss in Minsk. Metallurg joins the defending champion on 16 points after fighting back from 1-3 to beat Sibir. Avtomobilist thumped Ak Bars 4-1, Barys blanked Admiral 3-0 and Dynamo Moscow suffered a 2-3 loss at home to Neftekhimik.

Pavel Buchelnikov and Nikolai Kovalenko enjoyed a memorable afternoon as CSKA thrashed lowly Lada. They shared eight points, and Daniel Sprong had four assists in a 7-2 win. Sunday’s other action was also in Moscow, but Spartak finished on the wrong end of a 3-1 scoreline at home to Shanghai Dragons.

The game of the day saw Metallurg power to a 3-0 lead at home to Ak Bars, only to fall to a 3-4 loss after Grigory Denisenko potted two late goals. Early season pace-setter Torpedo suffered a third straight reverse when it went down 1-2 at home to Neftekhimik. The visitor moves to within two points of Magnitka, while Avangard took a share of the Eastern Conference lead after heaping more misery on Salavat Yulaev with a 5-2 win in Ufa. SKA eased past Sochi 4-2 beside the Black Sea and Barys hit back to beat Sibir 6-4 on home ice.

Defending champion Lokomotiv moved one point clear of Metallurg at the top of the KHL’s overall standings after battling to a 3-2 OT win over Avtomobilist. Shanghai Dragons made it two victories in three with a 4-1 success at struggling Lada; the home team suffered its seventh loss in a row. And Dinamo Minsk jumped to third in the Western Conference with a 4-2 verdict over Severstal.

A 5-1 win for Traktor ended Avangard’s six-game winning streak and brought the Thursday’s opponents level on points among the Eastern Conference leaders. In the same section, Ak Bars won 2-1 at Barys, for whom goalie Adam Scheel was making his debut. Today’s other game saw Amur blank CSKA for a 2-0 victory.

Vitaly Pinchuk scored all three goals as Dinamo Minsk became the first team to beat Torpedo in regulation this season. The Belarusians move to third in the West after a 3-2 win in Minsk. Lokomotiv reeled off a fourth straight victory after edging Severstal 2-1, while Neftekhimik defeated Avtomobilist for the second time in four days. Three games went to overtime: Dynamo recorded a third successive win after Jordan Weal shot down Shanghai, Sochi edged a shoot-out after a 4-4 tie at Lada, leaving the home team winless in six, while Sibir recovered from 0-2 to hand Salavat Yulaev another loss.

An overtime verdict against Spartak saw Metallurg overtake Torpedo at the top of the overall KHL standings. Andrei Razin’s team celebrated a fifth successive win, but Avangard went one better with a sixth straight victory. The latest success came at SKA thanks to two goals in the last three minutes. Earlier in the day, CSKA edged a 5-4 thriller at Admiral.

Shanghai Dragons handed Torpedo a first defeat of the season thanks to Nick Merkley’s overtime goal. That 64th-minute strike was the first and only tally of the game after 60 goalless minutes. It was a similar story in Minsk, where Dinamo edged Barys on an OT marker from Sam Anas. Lokomotiv had no such problems in front of the net, blasting Sochi 5-0 with Alexander Radulov claiming a hat-trick. Dynamo Moscow won 3-1 at Amur and Severstal succeeded on the road at Sibir.