Dinamo Riga - SKA - 0:3

SKA made the perfect start to the new 2019/2020 KHL regular season away series by defeating HC Dinamo Riga 3:0 in Latvia.

In the first period, Artyom Zub opened the scoring with a beauty, before Yaroslav Dyblenko and Evgeny Ketov completed the triumph with two further goals in the third frame.

Goalkeeper of the Week Alexei Melnichuk, who is in superb form, stopped all 23 shots he faced.

SKA will next play HC Ak Bars Kazan in Tatarstan on Wednesday.

Match protocol:

Dinamo Riga - SKA - 0:3 (0:1, 0:0, 0:2)

Goals:

0:1 Zub (Kagarlitsky), 10.37

0:2 Dyblenko (Plotnikov, Lehtera), 40.39

0:3 Ketov (Zub, Zemchyonok), 58.30

Goalkeepers: Makarov - Melnichuk

Shots on target: 23 - 30

Faceoffs: 24 - 35

Hits: 10 - 11

Penalty minutes: 6 - 6

Referees: Birin, Gofman

30.09.2019.