SKA defeated Spartak and broke a series of six defeats.

St. Petersburg Hockey club (HC) SKA won a major victory over Moscow HC Spartak in a home match of the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). The match in St. Petersburg on November 9 ended with a score of 7:1.

The hosts scored five goals already in the first period, Sport-Express notes. Vasily Glotov scored in the fourth minute, Rocco Grimaldi in the 12th, as well as Scott Wilson and Sergey Sapego— both in the 14th. Nikita Nedopekin scored another goal before the break. He scored a double in the 23rd minute. Andrei Pedan scored the last SKA goal in the 60th minute.

Maxime Comtois scored Spartak's only goal in the 39th minute. Moscow goalkeeper Artyom Zagidulin conceded four goals after seven shots and gave way to Evgeny Volokhin in the 14th minute.

The victory allowed SKA to break a series of six defeats in matches with the Red and white. In the main time, St. Petersburg has not beaten an opponent since October 25, 2024, when they won with a score of 5:2. On home ice, the Army defeated Spartak for the last time on November 23, 2023, when the match ended with a score of 3:2.

After this meeting, Spartak is in fourth place in the Western Conference with 30 points, and SKA, having scored 25 points, rose to seventh place. The St. Petersburg team will play their next match on November 11 against Dynamo Moscow. Spartak will host Amur Khabarovsk a day later.

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