SKA - Lokomotiv. Match facts

This marked the 25th KHL match in which SKA won by a score of 1:0. 20 of them have been recorded in regulation, two in overtime and three after a penalty shootout. Interestingly, five of those 25 games have been played against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. SKA have defeated 17 different opponents 1:0 in the league.

For the 10th time in his KHL career, goalkeeper Lars Johansson tallied shutouts in two consecutive games. Eight of those occasions were witnessed when playing for CSKA Moscow and two for SKA.

Forward Marat Khusnutdinov scored his first KHL winning goal for SKA. At the age of 19 years, two months and 18 days, Marat is the second youngest player to score a winner for SKA in the KHL, trailing only Vasily Podkolzin who was 19 years, two months and 15 days of age when tallying the decisive marker against Torpedo in Nizhny Novgorod on 8 September 2020.

So far, two of Marat's three goals this KHL season have been scored against Lokomotiv. In Yaroslavl, he hit the target at 38:58, before he hit the target yesterday at 39:35.