St. Petersburg SKA won the 16th victory in a row at the start of the KHL championship

The St. Petersburg SKA, in the next match of the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), overcame the Novosibirsk “Siberia” on the road and extended his record winning series at the start of the season.

The meeting in Novosibirsk ended with a score of 3-0 in favor of the army, who distinguished Sergey Shirokov (14:56), Maxim Karpov (21:05) and Patrick Hersli (43:51). The goalkeeper of the visitors Igor Shesterkin repelled 15 shots.

The St. Petersburg club continues its victorious series at the start of the championship. Now it is 16 games and is approaching the absolute record of the league, which was set by the Omsk Vanguard in the 2010/11 season (18 wins in a row in the middle of the season).

In 16 meetings, the team of coach Oleg Znark scored 45 points and had already come off 40 points from the Riga Dynamo, which occupies the last place in the table of the Western Conference.

We add that the Swedish defender Hursley was distinguished in the sixth game in a row, setting the club record among the field players in the duration of the digging series.

SKA will spend the next two games visiting Lokomotiv (October 2) and Salavat Yulaev (October 4).