SKA - Lokomotiv. Match facts

It was SKA's 200th KHL regular season home match, and our team has 143 victories and 57 defeats. The goal difference is also 689-214 in our favour.

The last time that SKA failed to score in a home match was back on the 11th of December 2013 against HC Metallurg Magnitgorsk (0:2). Overall our team scored in 61 games in a row, however the record stands at 65 matches.

Andrei Zubarev made his 350th KHL appearance, and he has taken 94 points (26+68).

It was Yegor Yakovlev's 200th KHL match, and so far he has 37 points (16+21).

Alexei Ponikarovsky has been involved in 150 games, racking up 46 points (16+30).

In his 53rd SKA match, Mikko Koskinen conceded his 100th goal.

SKA had last failed to find the net against Lokomotiv on the 16th of March 2008 (0:2). The last time that Lokomotiv beat SKA with a clean sheet in Saint Petersburg was well back on the 23rd of February 2004 (0:5).

Alexey Murygin's Russian championship debut came on the 19th of October 2006, when while representing HC Amur Khabarovsk he appeared as a substitute inside the Saint Petersburg Ice Palace. He then went on to play for Amur against SKA a further six times, and never conceded less than four goals.

In three out of four games last season, then Atlant head coach Alexei Kudashov defeated SKA in three out of four fixtures.