CHELYABINSK (Interstat) — Boris Katchouk had one goal and one assist, and Traktor Chelyabinsk scored four straight goals before holding off the Shanghai Dragons 5-2 in a Kontinental Hockey League game Tuesday at Traktor Sport Palace in Traktor Arena. The home team built a 4-0 lead before Shanghai scored twice in the third period, and Katchouk closed the scoring with 18 seconds remaining. Attendance was 7,500 at the arena. Shanghai fell to 14-9, while Traktor improved to 11-14.

Traktor opened the scoring at 10:11 of the first period when Mikhail Goryunov-Rolgizer scored his sixth goal of the season, with Nathan Legare assisting. Artemy Nizameyev doubled the lead at 15:56, with Ivan Vydrenkov and Andrei Svetlakov picking up assists. Traktor held a 2-0 lead after the first period and had controlled much of the early play.

The game turned physical early in the second period. Traktor’s Alexei Savelyev received a two-minute tripping penalty and a five-minute fighting major at 21:06, while Shanghai’s Turner Ottenbreit received a five-minute fighting major on the same sequence. Traktor then pulled away. Alexander Shen scored at 22:50 with Sergei Telegin assisting, and Nikita Soshnikov made it 4-0 at 27:48 with assists from Vladislav Valentsov and Katchouk. Traktor’s Andrei Pribylsky took a tripping penalty at 25:07, and Shanghai’s Colby Williams and Daniil Malorosiyanov each were called for tripping later in the period. Traktor carried a 4-0 lead into the second intermission.

Shanghai responded in the third period. After Traktor’s Dmitry Breus was called for too many players on the ice at 47:09, Dmitrij Jaskin scored at 48:14 with assists from Brennan Menell and Yegor S. Solovyov. Solovyov then scored at 53:32, with Brett Murray and Riley Sutter assisting, to cut the deficit to 4-2. Katchouk sealed the result at 59:42, scoring with assists from Legare and Mikhail Grigorenko. Shanghai’s comeback attempt fell short.

Katchouk, a 6-foot-2, 212-pound forward, led Traktor with one goal and one assist on two shots. His assist came on Soshnikov’s second-period goal, and his goal capped the scoring in the final minute. He had assists in two of his previous four games, including contests against Ak Bars Kazan and CSKA Moscow. Legare, listed at 6-foot-0 and 201 pounds, had two assists, three shots on goal and two hits. Traktor goaltender Henrik Haukeland, 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds, stopped 22 of 24 shots for the win. Svetlakov, a 5-foot-11, 203-pound forward, added one assist, two shots and one hit, while Soshnikov, 5-foot-11 and 183 pounds, had one goal on three shots. For Shanghai, Solovyov had one goal and one assist on one shot with one hit. Nizameyev, listed at 388 pounds, had one goal on one shot with one hit. Telegin, 5-foot-11 and 172 pounds, had one assist, two shots and three hits. Shen, 5-foot-11 and 192 pounds, had one goal on two shots with two hits, and Goryunov-Rolgizer, 5-foot-9 and 163 pounds, had one goal on one shot.

Traktor had dropped a shootout decision to Avtomobilist in its previous game but had won two of its prior three home contests. Shanghai had split its previous four games, with losses to Dynamo and Barys and wins over Severstal and Salavat Yulaev. The Dragons could not recover from Traktor’s four-goal run. The teams had met once earlier this season, with Traktor winning that game at Shanghai 6-2. Traktor next travels to Severstal, while Shanghai continues its road swing at Avtomobilist.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Shanghai 3, Traktor 2, while its ELO system gave Traktor a 63.6 percent probability to win. The total score of 7 went under the over/under line of 4.5.