SKA - CSKA. Match facts

Yesterday's first goal was SKA's 1000th at home in the KHL. It has taken the club 292 games to reach this landmark. 868 have come in 243 regular season games, while the remaining 137 were in 49 playoff fixtures.

Ilya Kovalchuk's empty netter was SKA's 100th home goal this campaign alone in 20 matches. This is the sixth time when SKA have scored 100 in one season.

Fellow forward Vadim Shipachyov has overtaken Maxim Sushinsky to have more assists than anyone other SKA player in history. Vadim now boasts 159 killer passes. Interestingly, Vadim has made 19 assists in matches with CSKA. Only Donbass and Kunlun Red Star have prevented Vadim from gaining an assist against them.

Evgeny Dadonov brought his SKA points total up to 151 (77+74) from 175 matches.

In his 481th KHL appearance, Maxim Chudinov grabbed his 50th goal. 27 goals have been scored in 293 SKA games. Overall, only Dmitry Kalinin (46) has scored more SKA goals by a defenseman.

Only Tony Martensson has competed in more KHL games for SKA (333) than Maxim Chudinov (293).

Ilya Kovalchuk owns a large 25 points against CSKA (13+12).

Goaltender Igor Shestyorkin, who notched up two assists yesterday, gained his first SKA points. The only other SKA goalkeeper to tally two passes in one game was Sergei Bobrovsky on the 1st of October 2012 against Ak Bars (5:2).

During the 2012/2013 season, Pavel Datsyuk scored twice against SKA for CSKA. Now, Pavel has his first goal in a match with the Muscovites as opponents.