On the 7th of October in their starting game of another away series HC Dinamo Minsk continued their catastrophic performance, losing to HC Spartak Moscow with the score 1:4 thus extending their ongoing losing streak to three.
       The hosts grabbed the lead 6 minutes into the game on a goal by Yegor Mikhailov. Three more goals from Andrei Shefer, Anatoly Nikontsev and Andrei Ankudinov in the second gave Moscow a plenty of cushion.
       Tim Stapleton denied Spartak’s goalie Sergei Borisov to record his third shutout of the season by pulling one back in the third. Andrei Mikhalyov and Geoff Platt assisted on Tim Stapleton 6th goal of the season.
       After that game Dinamo Minsk with 14 points in 14 games plunged to the bottom of the seven-team Tarasov Division and 13th place in the 14-team Western Conference.