MINSK (Interstat) — Vasily Demchenko made 20 saves and Nicolas Aube-Kubel scored twice as Dinamo Minsk beat Sibir Novosibirsk 4-1 on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, at Minsk-Arena. The Kontinental Hockey League game drew 15,086. Dinamo Minsk improved to 1-4. Sibir dropped to 1-5. Sergei Kalinin opened the scoring at 24:42, with assists from Bogdan Belkin and Daniil Sotishvili. Daniil A. Lipsky scored at 37:33, assisted by Ilya Usov and Christopher Tierney. Aube-Kubel then scored at 38:51, with Tierney and Dmitry S. Kuzmin assisting. Aube-Kubel added his second goal at 46:23, assisted by Stanislav Galiyev and Ty Smith. Darren Dietz scored for Sibir at 53:51, assisted by Taylor Beck and Yegor Korshkov. Tierney had two assists, while Smith recorded one assist and five shots. Lipsky added a goal, four shots and one hit. Kalinin had a goal and three shots. Dietz finished with a goal, four shots and one hit for Sibir. Demchenko stopped 20 of 21 shots.