SKA - Dinamo Minsk. Facts of game two

In 362 appearances, forward Andrei Kuzmenko has scored 100 KHL goals. 75 of them have been registered in 239 games with SKA, with the remaining 25 having been tallied in 123 matches for CSKA Moscow. Andrei has indeed scored a minimum of one goal against all 24 teams which he has faced when playing for SKA.

Nine of his goals have been witnessed in games against Dinamo Minsk.

24 goals in one single KHL campaign is a personal record for Kuzmenko. Last season, he had netted 22 markers in the league for our team.

Boasting 16 (9+7) points to his name, Kuzmenko is also now SKA's top scorer against Dinamo Minsk in the KHL. Vadim Shipachyov (5+9) and Nikita Gusev (4+10) held the previous club record against the Belarusians.

This was the third time when a SKA player scored two goals in two consecutive KHL Gagarin Cup playoff games. On Wednesday, Kuzmenko had hit the target twice in game one of the first-round series before repeating the trick on Friday. Viktor Tikhonov (2012/2013 against Severstal Cherepovets) and Evgeny Dadonov (2014/2015 against CSKA Moscow) had previously achieved this in the playoffs for SKA.

Defenseman Mikko Lehtonen has earned 82 (28+54) points in 100 KHL matches. 12 (2+10) of them have been gained in 17 SKA games.

His tally of 45 (24+21) points is a new personal KHL record for forward Anton Burdasov, beating his previous best of 44 (17+27) points in the 2015/2016 campaign.

Fellow forward Marat Khusnutdinov picked up his maiden KHL playoff point, as he dished out an assist for Mat Robinson's goal in the third period.

Dinamo Minsk forward Denis Mosalyov became the first player to score 10 goals against SKA in the Gagarin Cup playoffs. Five were scored for Dynamo Moscow, three for Minsk and a further two for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.