Lada beat SKA for first time in KHL to end ten-game losing streak

Lada defeated SKA 1–0 at home in the KHL regular season on October 15. It was the Tolyatti club's first victory over the St Petersburg side in the league and ended a ten-game losing streak.

Makarov struck in the twenty-second minute. The score remained unchanged at Lada Arena until the final buzzer.

Lada's previous victory came on September 14, when they beat Dinamo Minsk 4–2 at home. Igor Larionov's SKA have not won since defeating Admiral 6–5 in a shootout on October 3.

Lada now have eight points from sixteen games and sit tenth in the Western Conference. SKA are eighth with seventeen points after fifteen matches.

Lada host Dynamo Moscow on October 18. SKA's next home game is against Avtomobilist on October 20.