Dinamo Riga - SKA. Match facts

In the team's 372nd KHL regular season game, it was the 50th match in which penalty shots were required - in turn meaning that 13.72% of SKA's matches have gone down to the wire. 27 victories have gone SKA's way, with 24 wins for the opponents. SKA have now won all four penalty shootouts against Dinamo Riga, with three other wins coming against Ak Bars Kazan and Vityaz Podolsk.

Out of 25 KHL games against each other, eight have gone into overtime or to the shootout.

It was Artemiy Panarin's first shootout winner for SKA, although when representing Vityaz, he also scored a penalty shot against SKA on the 10th of January 2011.

Ilya Kovalchuk has now played in 200 Russian championship matches, with so far 191 points to his name (86+105). 132 of those appearances have been for SKA, and he has 135 points with our team as yet (59+76).

SKA's previous victory in Riga before yesterday came exactly two years ago - on the 16th of January 2013 our players came out on top 2:1.