SKA - CSKA. Facts of game one

For the seventh consecutive time in the KHL Gagarin Cup playoffs, SKA lost to CSKA Moscow in the first game of a series between the two clubs (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023).

Our first goal scored by forward Svyatoslav Grebenshchikov was SKA's 250th against CSKA in the KHL (104 games) and the 100th against these particular opponents in the playoffs (47 games).

This was SKA's longest first match (102 minutes and 24 seconds) of a particular KHL playoff series.

For the first time in the history of the KHL playoffs, a match involving SKA didn't contain a single penalty during regulation time.