SKA - Salavat Yulaev. Match facts

With 89 goals, Ilya Kovalchuk is now SKA's top scorer in the KHL. He has overtaken Swede Tony Martensson, who has 87. In all Russian championships, Ilya only trails Maxim Sushinsky, who boasts 105 goals.

No player ever before has taken six points in one game. With that exact amount yesterday (3+3), Ilya Kovalchuk has set another SKA record. However, the overall best belongs to Belay Bekyashev, as he scored an incredible nine goals in a match on the 20th of December 1953.

For KHL points, Ilya has 216 to his name (89+127), and is now in front of Patrick Thoresen (210).

In matches against Salavat Yulaev, Ilya Kovalchuk has a total of 16 points (3+13). Avangard Omsk and Admiral are the only teams who have kept Ilya off the scoreboard.

Ilya has three Russian championship and KHL hat tricks, more than any other SKA player. Ex SKA forwards Vladimir Tarasenko and Artemiy Panarin have both scored three goals on two occasions.

This was SKA's biggest ever victory against Salavat in Russian championships and the KHL. Nevertheless, the largest triumph over Ufa came well back in the USSR championship, as our team beat them 12:2 on the 15th of March 1983.

Three SKA players finished the match with a plus/minus rating of +5 for the first time in history.

Pavel Datsyuk and Sergei Plotnikov scored their debut KHL goals for SKA. At 38 years, one month and five days old, Pavel is third in the list of oldest SKA goalscorers behind Viktor Gordiyuk and Sergei Zubov.

On his 40th SKA appearance, Vyacheslav Voynov netted his first club goal.

Nikita Gusev competed in his 50th SKA match, and he has 51 points (19+32).

In his 101st SKA game, goaltender Mikko Koskinen conceded his 200th goal.