Avtomobilist - SKA. Match facts

SKA have now defeated a club from Yekaterinburg/Sverdlovsk on 50 occasions in the domestic championship. In the KHL, our players have gained 19 wins against Avtomobilist in 27 matches between the two organisations.

Dmitry Nikolaev is the third SKA goalkeeper in history to earn a minimum of 25 regulation/overtime victories in one regular season, following in the footsteps of Robert Esche (2009/2010) and Igor Shestyorkin (2016/2017). He required 36 games to achieve 25 wins.

31 (10+21) points during one single KHL regular season is a personal best for Igor Ozhiganov. The defenseman's previous record was 29 (7+22) points in the 2020/2021 regular season.

For the first time in the KHL, forward Marat Khusnutdinov has registered at least one point in five successive games. Across that period, he has picked up eight (2+6) points.

Defenseman Roman Rukavishnikov scored his first goal of the current campaign. Interestingly, before this match, the last time when he had hit the jackpot for SKA in the regular season was on the 13th of September 2016.

This marked the maiden occasion in the KHL when SKA scored an empty-netter against Avtomobilist. 28 teams in the championship have now conceded empty-net goals against SKA.