Amur - SKA. Match facts

SKA have now achieved 30 victories against Amur Khabarovsk in the KHL. Moreover, it only took our team 33 games to achieve this! The same amount of matches had also been required to beat Vityaz Moscow Region 30 times.

12 goals in one competitive match between these two teams is a new record, beating the previous best of 11 markers when SKA defeated Amur 8:3 away on 7 February 2010. It's worth noting that current SKA forward Sergei Plotnikov - who scored in yesterday's game - had netted for Amur in that particular match.

This marked the 17th KHL match when SKA didn't gift the opposing team a powerplay.

Amur forward Alex Galchenyuk became the eigth player to score a penalty shot against SKA during game time and not a shootout.

Fellow forward Marat Khairullin set a new club record with 14 empty-net goals! Furthermore, Marat has now scored in the final minute of games nine times, with seven of those particular markers having been scored into the empty net.

Defensemen Arseniy Koromyslov (40 matches) and Nikita Smirnov (7 matches) both scored their first KHL goals for SKA. 

Thanks to his entrance during the third period, 21-year-old Stanislav Berezhnoi became the 30th goalkeeper to represent SKA in the KHL and the 10th to make his debut as a substitute. 

Khairullin and fellow forward Evgeny Kuznetsov picked up five points each. This was only the second game in which a minimum of two SKA players registered five points during one single match.

Kuznetsov picked up five points in one KHL game for the first time.

This was SKA's second KHL match in which players of both teams - Galchenyuk (Amur) and Khairullin (SKA) - netted hat-tricks.