Ak Bars - SKA. Match facts

Before this match, SKA had won fourteen KHL away matches in a row. This is a new club record. That particular series began on October 4th, when SKA beat Slovan Bratislava 6:0.

Ilya Kovalchuk has also set a new club record with points in thirteen consecutive matches. During that period, Ilya picked up 20 points (6+14).

With 233 points (69+164), Vadim Shipachyov is second in the all time list of players with points for SKA. Also, scoring goals in four matches in a row, Vadim achieved a personal best.

SKA and Ak Bars have now played in seven KHL shootouts with each other. Our team has four wins, while Ak Bars have the remainding three.

Overall, SKA have lost to Ak Bars in all of the previous three KHL regular championships. The last regular season victory came back on January14th 2014 (3:1).

Emil Garipov is the first goaltender to take two shootout triumphs against SKA in one season.

Our team have lost three penalty shootouts this year. There has been a different goalkeeper for every one of them: Mikko Koskinen, Igor Shestyorkin and Evgeny Ivannikov.