MINSK (Interstat) — Denis Kostin stopped 23 of 26 shots as Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod beat Dinamo Minsk 4-3 in a Kontinental Hockey League shootout Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, at Minsk-Arena. Attendance was 15,086. Anton Sizov scored at 7:31 of the first period, with assists from Igor Geraskin and Sergei A. Skvortsov. Christopher Tierney tied it for Dinamo Minsk. Sergei Kalinin and Maxim V. Maltsev then scored in the second, giving the home team a 3-1 lead. Daniil Zhuravlyov answered for Torpedo, and Nikita Kamalov tied the game in the third. Mikhail S. Vorobyov scored the decisive shootout goal. Sizov finished with three shots and a hit. Maltsev had three shots and a hit, while Bogdan Konyushkov put four shots on net for Torpedo. Sergei Goncharuk recorded two assists, and Ilya Usov had one for Dinamo Minsk. Torpedo improved to 2-0-0. Dinamo Minsk fell to 0-1-0. Torpedo visits CSKA Moscow on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026.