SKA - Spartak. Match facts

In the club's 502nd KHL match, the overall goal difference was increased to 1615 - 1112.

It was SKA's 250th KHL home game, and the team has 172 victories with a positive goal difference of 838 - 514.

At 19 years, 11 months and 3 days old, Igor Shestyorkin is SKA's youngest goaltender in Russian championships and the KHL to keep a shutout. The previous record was held by Sergei Bobrovsky, who didn't let in a goal against HC Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (1:0) on the 7th of December 2012. He was 24 years, 2 months and 17 days old at that point. This was only Igor's eighth SKA appearance, and two of those came only for penalty shootouts.

It was Igor's second overall KHL shutout, as he got one for Spartak on the 2nd of March 2014 in an away match against HC Slovan Bratislava.

The last time that SKA kept a clean sheet against Spartak was on the 21st of January 2009 (1:0, Robert Esche).

SKA is the first KHL club to take 60 shutouts. 47 have come in the regular season, with another 13 in the playoffs.

11 goaltenders have taken these 60 games, and overall only 13 goalkeepers have played for SKA in the KHL.

The fifth goal was SKA's 100th against Spartak in the KHL, and it took 28 games for our players to reach this landmark.

In 203 official games against each other, this is the first time that SKA have beaten Spartak 5:0.