SKA - Severstal. Match facts

Out of 54 Russian championship matches, SKA have 25 victories over Severstal. The Cherepovets have 24 wins, while a further five matches finished as a draw. The goal difference is 144-136 in SKA's favour.

The last time that Severstal beat SKA was on the 21st of December 2012, and that means that SKA have now defeated Severstal 12 times in a row in the KHL.

Igor Shestyorkin is the first SKA goaltender in the KHL under the age of 21 to take two shutouts. Yesterday, Igor was 20 years, 8 months and 14 days old. In the past, the youngest two KHL clean sheets belonged to Sergei Bobrovsky, who was 24 at the time.

This was Igor's second shutout in just 17 SKA matches.

Defenseman Maxim Chudinov has 237 KHL regular season penalty minutes with SKA. Only Evgeny Artyukhin has more (456).