Facts of the maiden home game with Nizhny Novgorod

SKA forward Sergei Plotnikov is now in seventh place of the KHL's all-time scoring record with 551 (239+312) points to his name! Furthermore, the majority of his points have come with SKA (87+124), with the remaining 340 having been tallied for CSKA Moscow (62+62), Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (50+69), Metallurg Magnitogorsk (16+36) and Amur Khabarovsk (24+21).

Before this match, fellow forward Marat Khairullin has recorded a minimum of one point in 12 consecutive league games against Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. The streak lasted from 23 December 2023 to 8 September 2025, with Marat having picked up 14 (5+9) points across that particular period. 

Vladislav Firstov became the first Torpedo player to score a minimum of 11 goals against SKA in the KHL. Furthermore, the forward is the seventh player in league history to net at least 10 goals against SKA for one team, following in the footsteps of Konstantin Okulov (20, CSKA), Mikhail Grigorenko (14, CSKA), Sergei Mozyakin (13, Metallurg), Maxim Sorkin (12, CSKA), Alexander Radulov (11, CSKA) and Mikelis Redlihs (11, Dinamo Riga).