MINSK (Interstat) — Sam Anas had a goal and an assist and Dinamo Minsk held off visiting Lada for a 5-4 Kontinental Hockey League victory Monday at Minsk-Arena in Minsk, Belarus. Dinamo Minsk, the home team, improved to 3-6. Lada Togliatti dropped to 1-9. Attendance was 15,086. The game featured nine goals and eight penalties. Dinamo Minsk scored four goals in the first period and one in the second. Lada scored all four of its goals in the second period. The victory helped Dinamo Minsk bounce back from a recent road loss and avenge an earlier defeat to Lada this season.

Dinamo Minsk built its lead with goals from Stanislav Galiyev, Brady Lyle, Anas, Daniil A. Lipsky and Arseny Chukhrayev. Galiyev opened the scoring from Anas and Christopher Tierney. Lyle followed from Tierney and Dmitry S. Kuzmin. Anas scored from Tierney and Vladimir Alistrov. Lipsky scored unassisted. Chukhrayev added Dinamo Minsk’s fifth goal from Kirill Lozovsky and Kuzmin. Tierney finished with three assists, while Kuzmin had two assists from the blue line. Anas was later named Dinamo Minsk’s top star after finishing with three shots on goal.

Lada answered with a four-goal burst that made the finish tense. Andrei Chivilev started the rally from Nikita Setdikov and Ben King. Jeremy Groleau scored from Nikita A. Rozhkov and Rasim Shakirov. Riley Sawchuk scored from Chivilev and Nikita V. Mikhailov. Setdikov capped the rally from Chivilev and Sawchuk, cutting the deficit to one goal. Lada could not find an equalizer before the final horn. Chivilev was at the center of the comeback, finishing with a goal and two assists. Setdikov and Sawchuk also contributed to the late push.

Chivilev finished with one goal, two assists, one shot on goal and one hit. Setdikov had one goal, one assist and six shots on goal. Anas had one goal, one assist and three shots on goal and was Dinamo Minsk’s top star. Anas also had three shots on goal in his previous game. Kuzmin had two assists, four shots on goal and two penalty minutes. Sawchuk had one goal, one assist, two shots on goal and three hits. Tierney had three assists. Chukhrayev had one goal, three shots on goal and one hit. Groleau had one goal, three shots on goal and one hit. Lyle had one goal, three shots on goal and one hit. Lipsky had one goal and three shots on goal.

Penalties were frequent and disrupted the flow. Lada’s King was called for hooking, Evgeny Groshev for boarding, Doyle Somerby for roughing and Alexander An. Lukin for fisticuffs. Dinamo Minsk’s Bogdan Belkin was penalized for fisticuffs, Kuzmin for tripping, Xavier Ouellet for hooking and Ilya Usov for slashing. Lukin and Belkin received five-minute fisticuffs penalties in the second period. Both teams spent time in the box, but the game remained a one-goal contest after Lada’s final strike.

The loss extended a difficult start for Lada, which has dropped nine of its first 10 games. Lada entered after a 5-0 home loss to CSKA Moscow and a 7-3 road loss to Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. Dinamo Minsk won for the third time in nine games. Dinamo Minsk had dropped a 2-1 decision at Shanghai Dragons and a 4-3 overtime result at Dynamo Moscow in recent action. The teams had met earlier this season, with Lada winning 4-2. Dinamo Minsk controlled much of the afternoon before Lada’s late push, but the home team did enough to protect the lead.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Dinamo Minsk 2, Lada 1. Interstat’s ELO system had given Dinamo Minsk an 80.2 percent probability to win. The projections favored the home side before the opening faceoff.