SKA - Dinamo Minsk. Match facts
Having participated in 14 regular season matches straight before this game, goalkeeper Dmitry Nikolaev equalled Igor Shestyorkin's SKA record. Apart from Nikolaev and Shestyorkin, no SKA goaltender has competed in 14 games on the bounce in the KHL regular season. In those 14 matches for Nikolaev, only one defeat was suffered in a penalty shootout against Dynamo Moscow in Saint Petersburg.
Defenseman Roman Rukavishnikov made his 500th KHL appearance. Along the way, he has picked up 83 (18+65) points. 34 (6+28) have been registered in 233 SKA games.
In 150 KHL matches, forward Dmitrij Jaskin has earned 148 (64+54) points, with 11 (7+4) having been recorded with SKA.
Fellow forward Emil Galimov has now participated in 100 competitive games for SKA. In the process, he has gained 45 (18+27) points.
Forward Zakhar Bardakov played in his 50th KHL match with our club. This season alone, he has registered eight (3+5) points. Interestingly, in the 2021/2022 campaign, he only managed to tally five (1+4) points for the senior SKA team.
For the first time in his career, forward Vasily Glotov scored a winning goal in overtime in the KHL. Furthermore, never before had Glotov netted winners in two consecutive games and markers in three matches in a row.
