MYTISHCHI, Russia (Interstat) — Dmitry Nikolayev made 38 saves on 40 shots and Traktor Chelyabinsk scored three first-period goals Wednesday in a 6-2 Kontinental Hockey League victory over the Shanghai Dragons at Municipal‘nyj Stadion Stroitel‘. Mikhail Grigorenko opened the scoring at 2:29, Stepan Gorbunov scored at 3:31, and Yaroslav Fedoseyev made it 3-0 at 4:20. Grigorenko finished with two goals on three shots. Maxim Dzhioshvili had one goal and one assist, while Artemy Nizameyev added two assists. Grigory Dronov, Andrei Svetlakov and Nathan Legare each recorded one assist. Alexei Savelyev also scored, and Mikhail Goryunov-Rolgizer had four shots. Svetlakov had three shots and three hits, and Dronov had two shots and two hits. Shanghai answered in the second with goals from Dmitrij Jaskin and David Chen, cutting the deficit to one. Savelyev restored a two-goal cushion at 29:41, and Grigorenko made it 5-2 at 33:32. Dzhioshvili capped the scoring at 56:38. Traktor improved to 6-8. Shanghai is now 8-5. Attendance was 5,583.