SKA - Salavat Yulaev. Match facts

Dmitry Kalinin played his 200^th match for SKA, and became the first defenceman to reach that mark in the KHL. He is also the top scoring defenceman in the history of Russian championships with 113 points to his name (39+75), and during 7 KHL seasons so far only five SKA forwards have more points than him.

It was Viktor Tikhonov’s 50^th SKA goal in the KHL regular championship. Overall along with Maxim Sushinsky and Patrick Thoresen, he has scored 66 SKA goals overall.

In seven KHL home matches, this was only SKA’s second ever win against Salavat Yulaev in normal time. The previous victory came on the 27^th of September 2012, when incidentally our team won with exactly the same crushing scoreline 7:2. Overall now both sides have scored 45 goals against each other.

Both SKA and Salavat have a number of players who have played for both of these teams. Patrick Thoresen while playing for Salavat grabbed 6 assists against SKA, while with our team he has 6 goals and 1 assist in games against his former club. Dmitry Kalinin stands at 2+4 when facing off against Salavat with SKA, and with the Ufa outfit he got one assist in games against our team. Kirill Koltsov already has 5 points against SKA (2+3), whereas he assisted two goals when on the opposing side.

Andrey Kuteikin, who also used to represent Salavat, now has three goals in meetings between these two teams, with all of them being on the powerplay.

Ilya Kovalchuk in five games against Salavat has six assists, but so far not one goal.