Lower and lower in the standings: SKA were defeated due to a mistake in the last seconds of the match with Torpedo

In St. Petersburg on October 27, the next match of the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League of the season 2026/2027 took place at the SKA Arena. This time SKA met with Torpedo from Nizhny Novgorod. Again, defeat. The meeting ended with a score of 3:4 in favor of the guests, according to the sports edition “Championship”.

St. Petersburg had every chance to equalize the score, but the puck missed 14 seconds before the end of the match took away this opportunity. The score was opened in the 15th minute of the match by the guests: the puck was thrown into the gates of St. Petersburg by the Torpedo striker Egor Vinogradov. A few minutes later, SKA in the format of “five on three” equalized the score thanks to Matvey Short.

In the middle of the second period, Nizhny Novgorod again attacked the SKA gate and scored a goal, and in the 38th minute the success finally passed to the Torpedo side: the score became 3: 1. The backlog was reduced in the 53rd minute, Danil Aymurzin scored the puck against the opponent. 45 seconds before the end, Matvey the Short was able to equalize the score, but just 14 seconds before the end of the game, the SKA gate could not resist the onslaught of Nizhny Novgorod, and the guests scored the fourth puck.

This is the eighth loss of the last nine matches. And with the new coach Andrei Razin, St. Petersburg managed to win only one victory out of four.