SKA - CSKA. Facts of game five

Before this match, SKA had scored in 148 consecutive KHL and Russian championship matches, a league record. 116 of them came in the regular season with the remaining 32 in the Gagarin Cup playoffs. The previous record was 122 successive games, also set by SKA.

Vadim Shipachyov had taken points in eight consecutive KHL Gagarin Cup matches, earning 9 (3+6) overall. Last year, he earned points in nine successive KHL playoff games.

In 200 KHL matches, defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov boasts 39 (14+25) points. 18 (6+12) have come in 64 SKA appearances.

Out of 127 KHL Gagarin Cup playoff matches, SKA have only failed to score on seven occasions. Interestingly, four of those seven games have been against HC CSKA Moscow.

Both of CSKA Moscow forward Kirill Kaprizov's two goals against SKA have been winning ones. The first came on September 6, 2015 for Metallurg Novokuznetsk.