CSKA - SKA. Match facts

Our second goal scored by defenseman Alexander Nikishin marked SKA's 700th against CSKA across 296 matches between the two clubs in the domestic championship. 

Forward Sergei Plotnikov has netted 80 goals for SKA from 294 competitive appearances. Sergei is indeed the ninth SKA player to score a minimum of 80 markers in the KHL.

Nikishin has scored 50 goals in the KHL. 40 of them have been registered in 188 games for SKA, with the remaining 10 having been tallied across 105 matches for Spartak Moscow. He is the fourth defenseman in history to score at least 40 goals for SKA following in the footsteps of Dmitry Kalinin (46) and Evgeny Volkov (48).

For the first time in the KHL, 19-year-old forward Ivan Demidov has scored in three consecutive games.

Fellow forward Pavel Akolzin marked his SKA debut with an assist. Pavel is the 13th player to have dished out an assist in his maiden match for SKA.

SKA lost a first period by a difference of five goals for the first time in the KHL. Furthermore, this was also the first occasion when SKA conceded twice during the first minute of a KHL game.