World Championship. Facts of the second games

Jarno Koskiranta scored the 80th SKA goal at a World Championship. They have been spread out between the USSR/Russia (52), Norway (12), the Czech Republic (8), Ukraine (3), Latvia and Kazakhstan (2), and Finland (1).

Evgeny Dadonov was the scorer of the 50th goal netted by a SKA player for the Russian national team.

Defenseman Maxim Chudinov has now competed in 21 World Championship games for Russia. Viktor Tikhonov is just behind him on 20. Also, Maxim has six points overall (1+5).

Anton Belov, who took four points during the win over Kazakhstan (2+2), only had two points beforehand (1+1).

Also, Anton repeated Ilya Nikulin's feat of taking four points in one game, the most recorded by a Russian defenseman in history. However, all of Ilya's were assists.

No SKA defenseman had ever before tallied up four points in a single match. Nevertheless, forwards Viktor Tikhonov (2014) and Evgeny Dadonov (2015) had done the same in one fixture in the past.

Norwegian Patrick Thoresen holds the all time SKA record for amount of points in one match - 6 (3+3). That came in a match between Norway and Germany in 2012 (12:4).

Vadim Shipachyov has more assists than anyone other SKA player for the national team - 11. Viktor Tikhonov has 10.

Maxim Chudinov made his 75th Russian appearance.

Evgeny Dadonov picked up his 30th point for the team. After the game with the Kazakhs, that total has been increased to 31 (9+22).

Sergei Shirokov has played in 30 World Championship matches.