Torpedo - SKA. Match facts

It was the tenth time in Soviet and Russian championships that SKA had played out a 0:0 draw in normal time. The first 0:0 came against Kirovets on the 26th of December 1961. In the Russian championship the team drew blanks with CSKA Moscow, Neftekhimik and Vityaz, with all of those games being held in Saint Petersburg.

It's the 30th 1:0 victory for SKA, with four of them coming back in the Soviet times. Three more of them were in the play-offs, with a further two being won in overtime. The last time that SKA won 1:0 in the play-offs was on the 20th of February 2013 against Atlant at home.

Our team won in Nizhny Novgorod for the first time since 2009. Since the 13th of November of that year, SKA had lost every game there with a combined score of 9:19.

It was also SKA's first shootout victory against the opponents. Torpedo on the other hand have already beaten SKA twice in a shootout, with both of those wins coming away.

In his 12th SKA appearance, Mikko Koskinen picked up his first shutout. He is the third SKA netminder to grab his first shutout against Torpedo, following in Sergey Bobrovsky's and Alexey Maryn's footsteps.

With already four shutouts this campaign all together, Mikko is the leading Finnish goalkeeper in the KHL in this component. Overall he has kept a clean sheet in eight KHL games during his career.

Artemiy Panarin picked up his 95th point (43+52) in his 100th SKA match.