SKA - Lada. Match facts

Sergei Zubov became the sixteenth SKA head coach in Russian championships and the KHL, and the first interim head coach who managed to win their first game.

Other first games for interim SKA managers:

- Sergei Cherkas, 25.01.2006. SKA - HC MVD - 2:3 (OT).

- Vaclav Sikora, 20.11.2010. SKA - CSKA - 2:3.

- Mikhail Kravets, 28.11.2012. Donbass - SKA - 3:2.

Alexander Zhukov also won his first match as interim head coach in 1999 (CSKA - SKA - 3:7), but it wasn't a Russian Super League match.

It was Ilya Kovalchuk's 250th Russian championship appearance, and it was also his 150th KHL game for SKA. For SKA he has 146 points (68+83), and overall he has 226 (101+125).

Alexander Kadeikin has competed in 100 KHL matches, taking 33 points (12+21).

Last season Anton Burdasov scored nine goals in 43 KHL regular season games, however this campaign he has already hit the back of the net on 10 occasions. 30 of his 40 KHL goals have come for our club.

Until Anton Shenfeld's goal yesterday, Lada couldn't score against SKA for 158 minutes and 8 seconds.

On the 23rd of January 2008, Evgeny Ketov notched an assist and two goals for Lada when they defeated our team 4:0.