SKA 7-1 Spartak Moscow: five goals in one period under Razin

KHL results, November 9: SKA routed Spartak 7-1 at home. It is the kind of score that makes you look for a catch, but there is no catch, just one incredible first period.

At the first buzzer it was 5-0. Vasily Glotov opened the scoring in the 4th minute, Rocco Grimaldi added one in the 12th, Scott Wilson in the 14th, and Sergei Sapego scored 34 seconds after Wilson. Nikita Nedopyokin got the fifth, and in the second period he did it again: 6-0, the first brace of his KHL career. Spartak goalie Artyom Zagidulin gave way to Evgeny Volokhin after the fourth goal against. Maxime Comtois pulled one back on the power play shortly before the second intermission, and half a minute before the final buzzer Andrei Pedan put the full stop on it: 7-1.

What it means. Glotov collected three points (a goal and two assists), and Sergei Ivanov stopped 21 of 22 shots. For coach Andrei Razin it is the fourth win in eight games, and the first time his team has scored seven. He put Goldobin and Wilson back on the same line with Plotnikov, and the line delivered.

In the standings, SKA have 25 points after 23 games and sit seventh in the West. Spartak have 30 points after 25 games and are fourth. The win doesn't change the picture radically, but the gap has narrowed.