SKA - CSKA. Match facts

This was SKA's 700th competitive match at the Ice Palace. SKA have recorded 470 victories from these games, with 50 of them having been earned in overtime.

The goal difference is 2244-1460 in SKA's favour. Furthermore, a grand total of 6 million and 640 thousand fans have attended the arena across the 700 matches.

Both SKA and CSKA have now achieved 10 OT wins against each other in the KHL. Interestingly, Alexander Nikishin became the first SKA defenseman to score in overtime against CSKA Moscow.

Only Patrik Hersley (39) and Dmitry Kalinin (46) have scored more KHL goals for SKA among defensemen than Nikishin (37).

Forward Arseniy Gritsyuk netted his 70th KHL goal from 220 games, with 29 of his markers having been scored for SKA.

At the same time, fellow forward Sergei Plotnikov scored his 70 league goal for SKA. It took him 273 matches for our club to achieve this.

Since 1992, 100 different players have represented both SKA and CSKA in games between the two clubs. Nikita Zaitsev (defenseman, SKA), Nikita Sedov (defenseman, CSKA) and Mikhail Grigorenko (forward, SKA) became the three latest players to join this list.