1000 matches in the KHL!

Yesterday's dramatic 4:3 penalty shootout triumph over Dynamo in Moscow marked SKA's 1000th match in the KHL! The first game in the league had taken place on 3 September 2008, when our team lost 1:2 to Metallurg Magnitogorsk on the road.

A grand total of 18 head coaches have managed SKA: Oleg Znarok (141 matches), Barry Smith (119 matches), Valeri Bragin (109 matches), Jukka Jalonen (101 matches), Milos Riha (97 matches), Vyacheslav Bykov (82 matches), Ilya Vorobyov (80 matches), Alexei Kudashov (66 matches), Sergei Zubov (53 matches), Roman Rotenberg (50 matches), Vaclav Sikora (49 matches), Andrei Nazarov (22 matches), Ivan Zanatta (16 matches), Pyotr Vorobyov (7 matches), Lev Berdichevsky (3 matches), Mikhail Kravets (2 matches), Andrei Kozyrev (2 matches) and Harijs Vitolins (1 match).

Boasting 370 (161+209) points, Ilya Kovalchuk is SKA's leading scorer in the history of the KHL. Fellow forward Nikita Gusev has made more assists than any other SKA player in the championship: 248.

With 521 appearances on the board, Evgeny Ketov has competed in more KHL matches for SKA than any other player. He has also tallied 10 goals while playing shorthanded.

Dmitry Kalinin is SKA's top scoring defenseman with 130 (46+84) points to his name.

Gusev has earned the highest amount of powerplay points for SKA: 172 (44+128). Furthermore, in the 2018/2019 campaign, Gusev became the first SKA player in history to gain a minimum of 100 points in one particular season (101, 26+75).

The longest shutout streak among goalkeepers belongs to Igor Shestyorkin (272 minutes and 8 seconds). Mikko Koskinen has played in more KHL matches (181) than any other SKA goaltender.

Dinar Khafizullin (396) has made the most amount of KHL appearances for SKA among defensemen.

The longest winning streak of 20 victories was set between August 21 and October 9 in 2018. Between the 2nd and 21st of November 2021, SKA set an unwanted record of six losses in a row.

From 28 March 2016 to 4 April 2018, SKA scored a minimum of one goal in 148 games on the bounce, a club and KHL record.

10 goals in one match (SKA - Spartak - 10:2, 4 December 2011) is a club record. A 4:7 defeat to Dynamo in Moscow on 25 January 2011 marked the highest amount of goals which SKA have conceded in one particular KHL game.