"Rodina" started the Russian Cup with a loss.

      In the match against Ural Trubnik our hockey players led twice (Litvinov scored in the 23rd minute and Kuraev in the 30th), and early on Nelyubin missed a 12-meter penalty. But the opponent equalized both times and took the lead in the end. The final score was 3-2 in favor of Ural Trubnik. After the match, Rodina defender Vadim Vasiliev noted that before the game the team had agreed to play for a win in every cup match, regardless of the opponent's name or status. "Now all the teams from the West have set the task of reaching the quarterfinals. We have the same goal and went into the match thinking about three points. Unfortunately, we made a regrettable mistake at the end... But we certainly didn't deserve to lose today," the Kirov team's player told the Russian Bandy Federation.