SKA won the KHL regular season for the third time in history

SKA won the KHL regular season for the third time in history

The Petersburg club became the owner of the Continental Cup ahead of schedule due to the defeat of CSKA from the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv

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Hockey players of CSKA lost to Yaroslavl Lokomotiv with a score of 1:4 in the home match of the regular season Fonbet – KHL. Thanks to this, SKA St. Petersburg became the owner of the Continental Cup, which is awarded to the winner of the KHL regular season.

As part of Lokomotiv, goals were scored by Maxim Shalunov (9th minute), Alexander Polunin (41), Ivan Chekhovich (48) and Rushan Rafikov (58). The losers scored Mikhail Grigorenko (29).

This season SKA has 97 points in 64 matches. The Petersburg club won the Continental Cup for the third time in its history, the last time it happened in the 2017/18 season. In the entire history of the KHL, the club that won the regular season only once won the Gagarin Cup afterwards. In the 2018/19 season, CSKA succeeded.

Shalunov set a new club record for goals for one regular season in the Russian championships. In the match with CSKA, he scored the 28th goal of the season and surpassed the achievement of Andrei Kovalenko, who scored 27 goals in the 2001/02 season.

Lokomotiv climbed to second place in the Western Conference with 88 points in 65 games. CSKA is in third place with 87 points in 63 games.

Other results of the day:

“Avangard” (Omsk) – “Salavat Yulaev” (Ufa) – 1:3;

“Barys” (Astana) – “Dynamo” (Minsk) – 2:5;

“Metallurg” (Magnitogorsk) – “Neftekhimik” (Nizhnekamsk) – 2:4.

After the defeat to Dynamo Minsk and the victory of Neftekhimik in Magnitogorsk, Barys became the first club in the Eastern Conference to lose the chance of reaching the playoffs.