SKA - Dinamo Minsk. Facts of game five

This was the 50th meeting between SKA and Dinamo Minsk in the KHL. So far, our players have achieved 36 wins, with 11 of those having been gained in the Gagarin Cup playoffs. Furthermore, our fifth goal yesterday was the 100th against the Belarusian opponents in 26 home games with this particular club.

Dmitrij Jaskin now boasts 44 goals this campaign, a new personal record for the forward in the KHL. His previous best was 43 markers for Dynamo Moscow in the 2020/2021 season. Also, it's worth pointing out that Jaskin has scored at least one goal in six matches against Dinamo so far in the current campaign.

Fellow forward Marat Khairullin became the first SKA player to score five empty-netters during one particular KHL campaign. The preceding club record was held by Ilya Kovalchuk, who tallied four goals into the empty net in the 2014/2015 season.

With 93 (38+55) points to his name, forward Nikita Gusev is in fifth place of the KHL ranking concerning the amount of points recorded by a single player in the playoffs. Moreover, nine (3+6) points in the first round of the playoffs is a new club record. No SKA player had previously ever picked up more than eight points in the opening phase of the playoffs.

Possessing 12 (3+9) points, Igor Ozhiganov is SKA's leading scorer among defensemen in KHL games against Minsk.

Dmitry Nikolaev's 33 wins so far in either regulation time or overtime is a new record for SKA goalkeepers in one single KHL season. The previous record was held by Mikko Koskinen with 32 regulation/overtime victories in the 2017/2018 campaign.