Facts of SKA’s tense victory over Lokomotiv on the road

Igor Larionov has now worked over 250 KHL matches as a head coach. So far, he’s achieved 127 victories with a positive goal difference of 719-676. With SKA, Igor has tallied 15 wins from 30 games with our players scoring 87 goals along the way.

SKA have recorded 60 wins across 135 matches against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl as a part of the domestic championship. The goal scored by defenseman Andrei Pedan marked our 300th against these particular opponents.

Furthermore, Pedan became the 12th SKA defenseman to gain a minimum of 50 assists in the KHL. Since joining our organisation, Andrei has picked up 50 (11+39) points from 161 games.

For the first time in his KHL career, Brendan Leipsic has netted at least one goal in six consecutive matches.

Fellow forward Marat Khairullin scored his maiden overtime goal with SKA in the league.

Forward Sergei Plotnikov now boasts 194 (81+113) points in the KHL regular season for SKA. It’s also worth pointing out that this was the 163rd league game in which Plotnikov tallied a minimum of one point with our team.