Goal Gorbunov helped “Automobile” to defeat SKA in the game of the championship of the Kontinental hockey League

In one of the three matches on Tuesday, October 20, in the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League, Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist defeated SKA from St. Petersburg - 3: 1. "Army" suffered the sixth defeat in a row, reports sb.by.

The winners scored Alexander Kadeikin (22nd minute), Maxim Tarasov (59) and Belarusian Roman Gorbunov (60, in the empty gate). In the losers, the author of the abandoned puck was Vladislav Semin (31).

SKA lost in the first match after the appointment of Andrei Razin as head coach of the team. In early October, the Magnitogorsk Metallurg removed the mentor from the leadership of the squad, and then dismissed him. A couple of days ago, the club from St. Petersburg announced the appointment of a specialist who replaced Igor Larionov as head coach of the SKA.

In other matches of the game day in the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League, Yaroslavl Lokomotiv was defeated by Nizhny Kamsk Neftekhimik - 0: 1, and Dynamo Moscow lost to Novosibirsk Siberia - 2: 3 (by bullies).

Dynamo Minsk, which in the framework of the last at the moment home series lost to Magnitogorsk Metallurg (1: 3) and Kazan Ak Bars (1: 4), is now preparing for guest games against Sochi (October 22) and Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo (October 24). Zubry with 17 points after 17 meetings are seventh in the standings of the Western Conference.

According to the results of the regular championship 2025/2026, the Minsk squad, we recall, scored 88 points and finished on the second line in the table of the conference “West” after the future champion – Yaroslavl “Lokomotiv”. At the stage of the 1/8 finals, the “teeth” won the series against Moscow teammates with a dry score of 4: 0, but in the quarterfinals, the Minsk Dynamovites lost four times to the Kazan “Ak Bars”. In the overall table of the Kontinental Hockey League, the white-blues took fifth place for the first time in history.