Minsk “Dynamo” will take SKA from St. Petersburg in the match of the championship of the Kontinental hockey League

Today, October 8, Dynamo Minsk will host SKA from St. Petersburg. The start of the match of the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League is scheduled for 19:10, reports sb.by.

Earlier, within the framework of this home series, the “teeth” defeated Togliatti Lada (5: 4) and Yaroslavl Lokomotiv (4: 3), but lost to Moscow CSKA (1: 4) and Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo (1: 2, according to bullites). Of course, the wards of Sergey Brylin will try to reach a positive balance of victories and defeats in the series. And the potential for achieving a positive result in Minsk has. However, SKA, which has won eight of its 11 meetings in the season, is certainly set to take the maximum.

Dynamo currently have the best majority in the league (44.4 percent of sales). Forward Christopher Tierney (2+11 in the system “goal plus pass”) right now closes the top 6 in the list of scorers of the KHL, and Ty Smith (1+10) is the top scorer and second assistant among defenders. For the goalkeeper of Minsk Zak Fukale, the next victory will be the 100th for the entire time of his performance in the Kontinental Hockey League, and another goalkeeper of the “dents” Vasily Demchenko is still only one step away from the 30th shutout in the KHL.

Next, Dynamo Minsk will hold guest matches against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (October 10) and Shanghai Dregons (October 12). Now the “teeth”, having 13 points after 12 meetings, occupy the eighth place in the Western Conference table.

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” immediately after the 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.