Facts of SKA’s comfortable Thursday evening in Astana

Matvei Korotky scored SKA’s 150th goal of the current KHL campaign. It took our team 54 matches to achieve this.

Furthermore, at the age of 20 years, 1 month and 20 days, the forward became the youngest SKA player to score a penalty shot during regulation time of a league game!

With 97 goals to his name, fellow forward Sergei Plotnikov is now one of the leading five goalscorers in SKA’s KHL history! Moreover, he also became our team’s top scorer against Barys Astana with six markers to his name. Four of them were tallied while competing on the powerplay.

Defenseman Markus Phillips has picked up points in two consecutive SKA matches for the first time.

This was the maiden occasion when fellow defenseman Yegor Savikov dished out two assists in one single SKA game.

Across 50 competitive matches for the senior SKA team, forward Matvei Polyakov has registered 22 (12+10) points.

Forward Marat Khairullin boasts 207 (90+117) points from 250 matches for SKA. Overall, he became the 40th player in KHL history to score 150 league goals, and he also made his 100th assist in 218 regular-season games for our club. Marat is the ninth SKA player to gain a minimum of 100 assists in the regular season.