Torpedo beat SKA in the KHL regular season match

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod defeated SKA St. Petersburg in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) regular season match. The match took place on September 8 and ended with a score of 3:2.

Forwards Egor Sokolov (7th minute), Vladislav Firstov (31st minute) and Egor Vinogradov (65th minute) scored for the Nizhny Novgorod team. Strikers Nikolai Goldobin (22nd) and Sergey Plotnikov (51st) scored for SKA.

In addition, Canadian SKA striker Joseph Blandisi was disciplined for unsportsmanlike conduct in the 18th minute for the rest of the game.

This is the second defeat in a row for SKA at the start of the KHL season. For the head coach of the team, Igor Larionov, who took over the team in June, this was the first game against Torpedo.

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On September 6, the KHL website reported that the Chinese hockey club Shanghai Dragons defeated SKA in an away match. The game ended with a score 7:4 (2:2, 4:1, 1:1). Valentin Zykov, Mikhail Vorobyov, Nikolai Goldobin and Rocco Grimaldi scored their goals for SKA, while Parker Fu, Nikita Parugaev, Gage Quinney, Borna Rendulich and Max Ellis scored for the Chinese team.

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