KAZAN (Interstat) — Ak Bars Kazan defeated Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 5-2 on Monday at TatNeft Arena in a Kontinental Hockey League game before 7,345. Timur Bilyalov stopped 25 of 27 shots for Ak Bars, which moved to 12 wins and 14 losses. Torpedo fell to 14 wins and 9 losses. Stepan Terekhov opened the scoring at 6:26 of the first period and Albert Yarullin made it 2-0 at 9:10. Igor Geraskin answered for Torpedo at 11:50 but Semyon Terekhov restored a two-goal lead at 19:06. Alexei Byvaltsev scored at 32:29 of the second and Andrei Stas made it 5-1 at 51:26 of the third. Pavel Kraskovsky scored at 57:51. Kraskovsky and Geraskin each had a goal and an assist while Byvaltsev had a goal and an assist. Grigory Denisenko and Alexander Chmelevski each added two assists. Alexei Marchenko and Daniil Seroukh also recorded assists. Ak Bars scored three goals in the first period and one in each of the next two.