SKA rally past Dinamo Moscow for 5:3 win
Larionov's SKA overturned a 0:2 deficit to beat Dinamo 5:3 and stay unbeaten in two games, while Tambiev's Dinamo dropped to two straight losses.
SKA beat Dinamo Moscow 5:3 at home, coming back from 0:2 down to make it two wins from two in the KHL regular season.
Nick Merkley put the visitors ahead in the 7th minute, and Yegor Rimashevsky doubled the lead on the 24th.
Vasili Atanasov made it 4:2 in the 45th minute. Rimashevsky pulled one back with his second of the night on the 52nd, but Plotnikov settled the score with 9 seconds left on the clock.
Igor Larionov's SKA have now won both their opening fixtures, having beaten Lada 4:3 in overtime before this game. Dinamo, under Leonid Tambiev, have lost their first two — they went down 1:2 to Avtomobilist in their season opener.
Dinamo's setback follows a heavier one in a different code: they had earlier been beaten 2-1 by Spartak in the Moscow ice hockey derby before winning their first-ever rugby regular-season title. On this form, Tambiev's side head into the next round having taken back-to-back defeats to open the campaign, while Larionov's SKA will look to build on an unbeaten start.
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