The composition of SKA for 2017-2018 has changed slightly. The team was forced to resort to new transfers, since two main strikers from the first line left in the off-season: Vadim Shipachev and Evgeniy Dadonov. The first of them will continue his career in Vegas, and the second in Florida (both clubs from). The remaining losses in the form of two reserve goalkeepers, forward Moses and defender Yudin will not affect the army team’s game.
As you know, in hockey the goalkeeper is half the team. The results of matches largely depend on the goalkeeper’s performance, so the composition of SKA’s main goalkeepers remained unchanged. In the 2017-2018 season, the St. Petersburg team will be able to hit the puck:
- Mikka Koskinen;
- Igor Shesterkin;
- Konstantin Volkov.
Obviously, the place of the main goalkeeper belongs to the young Russian Igor Shesterkin. Last season, he played 39 games with an impressive save percentage of 93.7%. His replacement, Finn Mikka Koskinen, played 23 matches in the regular season with a percentage of 91.6%. The position of the third goalkeeper, which SKA requires only to complete the lineup, belongs to Konstantin Volkova. Usually the reserve goalkeeper is allowed to play no more than 1-2 games. For example, Evgeny Ivannikov, who moved to Lada, defended the goal of the army team only once last season.
Defensive line
The vast majority of hockey players renewed their contracts with the club in the off-season. SKA's defensive lineup for 2017-2018 is as follows:
- Artem Zub;
- Dinar Khafizullin;
- Roman Rukavishnikov;
- Patrick Hursley;
- David Rundblad;
- Vyacheslav Voynov;
- Andrey Zubarev;
- Egor Yakovlev;
- Vladislav Gavrikov;
- Egor Rykov;
- Maxim Chudinov;
- Anton Belov.
The defenders of the first two lines showed good results in the past. Vyacheslav Voynov scored 37 points using the goal+pass system, Anton Belov – 27, Egor Yakovlev – 21. Obviously, the army team will not have any problems supporting the attack during the match and when playing too much. In addition, when defending their own goal, the defenders show a good game, because last season they conceded 112 goals in 60 matches (less than 2 per match). Only CSKA Moscow can boast of a lower figure, which took the puck out of its own net 104 times.
In general, SKA’s defense does not need to be strengthened: it has some of the best hockey players in the world who know their job and can improve in the playoff series. The team's head coach Oleg Znark has a huge choice, so it is possible that a number of young players will go to the SKA-Neva farm club, which plays in the VHL.
Attack line
After Shipachev and Dadonov left, a gap appeared in the attack of the first and second links. A number of new players are called upon to fill the team's attacking potential. During the summer transfer window, the roster of HC SKA for the 2017-2018 season was replenished with: Viktor Komarov (Lada), Danila Kvartalnov (CSKA), Sergei Kalinin (Toronto, NHL), Maxim Karpov (Dynamo Moscow) ). Also in attack will be:
- Jarno Koskeranta;
- Ilya Kovalchuk (captain);
- Victor Tikhonov;
- Arkhip Nikolenko;
- Sergey Plotnikov;
- Ilya Kablukov;
- Evgeny Ketov;
- Sergey Shirokov;
- Nikolai Prokhorkin;
- Alexander Dergachev;
- Alexander Khokhlachev;
- Alexander Barabanov;
- Nikita Gusev.
Last season, SKA became the record holder for goals scored: the team hit the opponents' goal 252 times. To get a sense of the difference, let’s look at the numbers of the Army team’s closest pursuer in this component – Metallurg Magnitogorsk had only 199 goals during the season. The team's top scorer was Ilya Kovalchuk (32 goals), followed by Dadonov (30 goals) and Shipachev (26 goals). Despite the departure of two of the best strikers, the attacking potential of the St. Petersburg team remained one of the most powerful in the league.
Thus, the SKA roster in 2017-2018 has not weakened compared to the previous season. The club continues to have a pipeline of talented puttermakers ready to compete for the top spots. The main goal of the “army team” from the banks of the Neva will undoubtedly be the Gagarin Cup, to win which they will make every effort.
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At the end of 1946, the All-Union Committee for physical culture and sports decided to hold the USSR Canadian Hockey Championship. All the oldest hockey clubs in Russia - CSKA, Dynamo, Spartak and SKA - trace their lineage back to the last days of 1946. The first name of our team was the now bizarre-sounding “House of Officers named after. CM. Kirov". The team was headed by Alexander Semenov.
Birthday
The first match was played by Leningrad officers against the team of Vasily Stalin himself - the MVO Air Force. The pilots were headed by Anatoly Tarasov, in the future one of the greatest specialists in the history of hockey. Then he was an ordinary player-coach. The debut of the Leningraders was not successful. They lost with a score of 3:7. The first goals in the history of our club were scored by hockey players Dmitriev, Khabarov, and the legendary Tarasov scored one own goal. Then there was a 1:1 draw with CDKA and a technical defeat for failure to appear at the match with the Sverdlovsk House of Officers. IN final part Leningraders did not qualify for the tournament.
Return to the elite
The Leningraders missed the 47/48 season, so next year they had to start from a lower level - class “B”. In December 1950, class “A” was significantly expanded, and the “Leningrad House of Officers” (as our team was now called) again entered the elite. Until 1991, the army team always played on top level. On the second attempt, LDO got into the final group, but took the last sixth place there.
Bekyashev is the top scorer
In the 1953/54 season, the Leningraders led by Anatoly Viktorov stopped one step away from the podium, in fourth place. Just one victory was not enough for the army team to overtake Krylia Sovetov. But top scorer Leningrader Belyay Bekyashev, the leader of the LDO attacks, became the winner of the tournament. He scored almost half of the team's goals - 34 out of 86. Dynamo Sverdlovsk suffered the most from the goal-scoring forward. In the first match, Bekyashev scored 9 goals against the Sverdlovsk team, and in the second, eight.
First successes in the national team
The 55/56 Championship “District House of Officers” started with great success. Of the 10 starting matches, the army team won 9. However, an unsuccessful game at the end of the season deprived them of medals. The team again finished in fourth place, 4 points away from bronze. Bekyashev again became the team's best sniper, scoring 37 goals.
This success continued. ODO hockey players S. Litovko, A. Zhogol, E. Volkov, A. Nikiforov, V. Elesin, V. Pogrebnyak, B. Bekyashev and K. Fedorov were called up to the USSR national team, which went to the World Winter Games student games 1956. Soviet athletes became winners. All army men who defended the colors of the national team were awarded the title of Master of Sports.
New team name
Before the 57/58 season, the Leningrad army team received a new name - SKVO. This abbreviation stood for “Military District Sports Club.” The Leningraders played under this name for two seasons. In the championship, 57/58 took first place in the preliminary group, winning 5 victories in 5 matches. However, in final stage they performed not so successfully - 7th place out of 8 participants. A year later, SKVO took 6th place, but at the same time became the most successful non-Moscow team.
Finally SKA!
In 1959, Leningraders received the name under which they achieved the greatest success. The name they bear to this day is SKA.
Puchkov
In December 1963, a young specialist, the best goalkeeper of the USSR of the 50s, Nikolai Georgievich Puchkov, became the new head coach of SKA. His arrival became an epoch-making event for Leningrad hockey. For almost twenty years (with short breaks), this wonderful coach led SKA and achieved enormous success with the team. Puchkov developed his own signature tactics - effective defensive play - and selected players strictly for it.
In the same year, the SKA team from Kalinin was disbanded, and the Leningrad team was replenished with five wonderful players. These were forwards Valentin Panyukhin, Yuri Glazov and Vasily Adarchev, as well as a pair of defenders Pavel Kozlov and Konstantin Menshikov.
Fourth again...
Puchkov achieved his first noticeable success with the army team in the 1966/67 season. Playing reliably in defense, the Leningraders were in the leading group all season, but in the end they were again content with fourth place. Three points were missing from the podium. The team's best sniper was Valentin Panyukhin, who scored 31 goals.
In the cup final
The next season brought cup success to the army team. For the first time in their history, they reached the final of the USSR Cup. On the way to the final, the Leningraders defeated Angarsk Ermak, Chelyabinsk Voskhod, Kiev Dynamo and Moscow Lokomotiv with a total score of 32:7. However, in the final they lost heavily to CSKA 1:7.
The successes of our hockey players did not go unnoticed. Four army men were invited to the USSR junior national team, which went to the European Championship-68 - S. Solodukhin, A. Novozhilov, E. Fedoseev, V. Solodukhin. A year later, Leningraders V. Shepovalov, O. Churashov, I. Grigoriev, S. Solodukhin and P. Andreev defended the colors of the main national team at the Izvestia Prize tournament
Spengler Cup
At the very end of 1970, the army team showed off on the international stage. From Davos, Switzerland, they brought an honorary trophy - the Spengler Cup. This is the oldest in the world hockey tournament has been held since 1923, and Leningraders have won the cup more than once. In 1970, they surpassed the Czechoslovakian Dukla, the Swedish MoDo, the German Dusseldorf and the host of the tournament, HC Davos.
First bronze
In the 1970/71 season, the army team had great success in the championship. The team’s first bronze medals were brought to them by Puchkov’s signature game, with an emphasis on attentiveness in defense. In the key match of the season, Leningraders defeated Spartak with a score of 4:3. The stands of the brand new Yubileiny Stadium, packed to capacity, witnessed SKA's first success. The best scorer of Leningraders in the bronze season was Yuri Glazov, who scored 30 points (26 + 4).
SKA also created a real sensation in the USSR Cup. IN semi-final match in Moscow, Leningraders beat CSKA with a score of 7:5. However, in the final they lost to their main competitor in the fight for bronze medal, Spartak, 1:5. And in December of the same year, the army team won the Spengler Cup for the second time in a row. This time, the victims of the Leningraders were the Czechoslovakian “Slovan”, the Japanese national team, the Swedish “MoDo” and the Swiss “La Chaux-de-Fonds”.
First time at the World Championships
The culmination of a successful period in SKA’s history was the participation of three army men in the World Championship. In 1972, Nikolai Puchkov was invited to the coaching staff of the USSR national team. He, goalkeeper Vladimir Shepovalov and forward Vyacheslav Solodukhin became the first representatives of Leningrad at the world hockey forum. Unfortunately, our team failed to win the Prague tournament. Soviet hockey players won silver.
Switzerland again, Cup again
After the bronze medal in 1971, the army team failed to gain a foothold in the leading positions in the championship and fell back to the middle, or even the bottom, of the table. One of SKA's few successes in the late 70s was its third victory in the Spengler Cup. The team, in which the Solodukhin brothers continued to play and young Alexei Kasatonov and Nikolai Drozdetsky began their bright careers, was ahead of the Czechoslovakian “Dukla”, the Swedish “AIK”, the German “Cologne” and the Swiss national team.
Drozdetsky is the best in the USSR
In the early 80s, the Leningrad army team was still far from the podium, but the factory of talented hockey players was working at full capacity in the Northern capital. Goalkeeper Evgeniy Belosheykin, defenders Alexey Gusarov and Alexey Kasatonov and, of course, forward Nikolai Drozdetsky shone for CSKA and the USSR national team. This guy from Kolpino, who had been choosing between football and hockey for a long time, quickly broke into the ranks best players USSR. At the age of 18, he already played for SKA, and from the age of 22 he defended the colors of CSKA, the base team of the national team. The finest hour of this powerful striker was 1984. At the Olympics in Sarajevo, largely thanks to his excellent performance Soviet team won gold medals. At the end of the 83/84 season, Drozdetsky was recognized as the best hockey player in the country.
Second bronze
The creator of the second bronze medal in Leningrad hockey was Valery Vasilyevich Shilov. He took over the team from Boris Mikhailov in 1984 and added his vision of the game and psychological emancipation to discipline and physical readiness. Under Shilov, the army team relied on aggressive attacking hockey. Only the recognized leaders - CSKA and Dynamo - scored more goals. Nikolai Drozdetsky’s return to his home team couldn’t have come at a better time. The forward moved to Leningrad at the right time - in January 1987 and had a crazy run at the end of the season, scoring 13 goals in 13 games.
Four champions
In the troubled 90s, SKA even managed to play in the First League, but in just one season it returned to the elite. A new page in the history of the team turned out to be closely connected with the name of Boris Petrovich Mikhailov. In 1993, this specialist combined work for SKA and the Russian national team. Under the leadership of Mikhailov, our national team won the world championship in Germany. In addition to the head coach, three players from St. Petersburg, Sergei Pushkov, Sergei Shendelev and Dmitry Frolov, also became triumphants.
MHL semifinals
Changes in the country have changed not only the name of the Russian hockey championship, but also the formula for holding it. The MHL has a playoff. In the second edition of the International Hockey League, the St. Petersburg army team reached the semifinals. Mikhailov's team knocked out Magnitogorsk Metallurg and Ufa Salavat Yulaev from the draw. However, two steps away from the trophy, the army team was stopped by the future champion - the Togliatti Lada. It is interesting that the colors of that SKA were defended by both the 1987 bronze medalists Dmitry Kukushkin, Yuri Gailik, Nikolai Maslov, and the future stars of the city on the Neva Maxim Sushinsky and Maxim Sokolov.
The first coach is a foreigner
In April 2007, SKA became the first foreign coach in the history of the team. It was American specialist Barry Smith. For 20 years, he worked as an assistant coach for the NHL's Buffalo Sabers. Pittsburgh Penguins", "Detroit Red Wings". Won the Stanley Cup five times. Under his leadership, SKA regularly reached the playoffs, but could not advance beyond the quarterfinals in the knockout games.
Gorovikov and Sushinsky are world champions
After a 15-year break, the Russian national hockey team became the world champion. And again, this triumph was not without SKA players. Maxim Sushinsky played 9 games at the championship and scored 5 points (4+1), and Konstantin Gorovikov earned 4 points (2+2) in the same 9 matches.
Gorovikov's second gold
A year later, Russia repeated its global success at Swiss ice. The first ever two-time world champion with SKA was forward Konstantin Gorovikov. He again took part in all matches of the tournament and scored 5 points (1+4).
Fourth Spengler Cup
After a 35-year break, the army team won the tournament in Davos. On group stage Vaclav Sikora's team easily surpassed the Czech Sparta and the Swiss Servette. In the semi-finals we again defeated the team from Geneva, and in the super interesting final we beat the Canadian team 4:3. Maxim Sushinsky scored a double in the decisive game, and Alexey Yashin and Maxim Afinogenov scored another goal.
Conference final
Last season, the army team repeated their best achievement since the advent of the playoff series - reaching the semi-finals. On the way to the conference finals, Milos Rzhiga's team dealt with CSKA and Atlant without any problems, but again stopped two steps away from the main goal, the Gagarin Cup. This time the stumbling block was the future champion Dynamo Moscow. Some compensation for the failure in the conference finals was the performance of the Russian team at the World Championships. The Russians brought gold from Sweden and Finland. Our defender Dmitry Kalinin also contributed to the victory.
Continental Cup and bronze medals
In the 2012/2013 season, SKA was strengthened by one of the best players in the country, Ilya Kovalchuk, and goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky, and Finnish specialist Jukka Jalonen replaced Rzhiga on the coaching bridge. The army team had a very powerful regular season, 11 points ahead of their closest pursuer, and for the first time in history became the winners of the Continental Cup. In the playoffs, SKA again reached the Conference finals, eventually winning bronze medals at the national championship, and Army striker Viktor Tikhonov became the best sniper of the Gagarin Cup.
SKA players at the World Championship
In 2014, at the World Championships in Minsk, the Russian team went through the entire tournament without a single misfire and won the gold medals of the championship. SKA forward Viktor Tikhonov became the best sniper and scorer (8 goals out of 16 points), as well as the best forward and entered the symbolic top five of the tournament. His new teammate Anton Belov was also in it.
First silver
In the 2014-2015 season, the Russian champion was determined not by winning the Gagarin Cup, as was the case in previous years, but in the regular season. SKA was in the lead throughout the season, but in the end CSKA celebrated the championship. However, the St. Petersburgers updated best result In the history of the club, SKA won silver medals for the first time.
Gagarin Cup!
On April 19, having defeated Ak Bars Kazan in the fifth game of the final, SKA became the winner of the Gagarin Cup! Seventh KHL season brought the long-awaited trophy to the club. On the way to it, the army team beat Torpedo, Dynamo Moscow, and in the conference final they met with CSKA and were first in KHL history came back from 0:3 in the series.
SKA – 70!
The 2016/17 season became special for the army team from the very start, because the club was turning 70 years old. The anniversary became the leitmotif of the season. The club prepared a number of events dedicated to this event, including a special issue of the SKA Star magazine, which became a historical almanac with rare photos and interviews of club veterans, an Internet page where you could study how the uniform of the army team has changed over the decades, learn more about the history of the club, and SKA played the match closest to the significant date in a special set of “Army” uniforms; before the game, fans were treated to a colorful show and an updated Gallery of Fame of the club, whose members were honored on the ice.
But the army team presented the main gift in honor of the anniversary at the end of the season.
National champions
On April 16, in the fifth match of the Gagarin Cup final against Metallurg Magnitogorsk, SKA won their fourth victory in the series and won the coveted trophy for the second time. But the main difference of this victory is that for the first time it brought the army team the long-awaited title of Russian champion!
Second Continental Cup
For the second time in history, SKA became the winner of the KHL regular season.
The army team won 47 victories in 56 games in the 2017/18 season, beating their main competitor for the leadership, CSKA, by 14 points. In addition, SKA won bronze at the national championship for the fourth time and won the Vsevolod Bobrov Prize for the fifth time, becoming the most productive team in the league.
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Today, HC SKA is one of the most successful clubs in Russia. From year to year the St. Petersburg team claims to win the Gagarin Cup - the main trophy
Early period
HC SKA was formed in the post-war period, in 1946. It was then that the club took part in the first USSR championship. Leningrad officers played their debut game against Vasily Stalin's team - the MVO Air Force. The result was major defeat Leningrad army team with a score of 3:7.
The army team received their current name only thirteen years after their official birth, in 1959. The club has since been called SKA. What does this abbreviation mean? SKA is also Leningraders had, so to speak, “relatives” in the capital - CSKA (central sports club army). Muscovites have been considered the flagship of domestic hockey longer than others, and their confrontation with their “colleagues” from the Northern capital is considered a real army derby.
Being in the shadow of more status rivals from Moscow (CSKA, Dynamo, Spartak, Krylya Sovetov), SKA during the Soviet period was able to win not a single gold in the domestic arena. The main achievements of the club were three victories in the Spengler Cup (1970, 1971 and 1977). Between them there was a place for the long-awaited bronze in the USSR Championship. This happened in the successful year 71 for the army team. Before this, only fourth place was SKA's best achievement. It was not very believed that this could be possible, but at that time the Leningraders were led by Nikolai Puchkov, one of the greatest specialists of that time. He was a proponent of organized and disciplined play, which prioritizes error-free defensive play.
The second bronze did not come to the Leningraders very soon: only in 1987. The team's philosophy was radically different from the one that Puchkov instilled in his SKA. What happened to the team? The style changed: the club began to show an aggressive attacking game, aimed primarily at the opponent’s goal.
Modern period
The team had a difficult period in the nineties, but this is SKA! What are the difficulties for a club with such traditions? The army team even had to play in the First League, but the team quickly returned to the elite.
However, SKA really began to come into its own only in the 2000s. In 2007, a significant event took place for the team: the first foreign coach joined the team. It was Canadian Barry Smith. Before that, he had only worked with National Hockey League teams (Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit, Phoenix), so this was also a kind of challenge for him. This appointment was not a failure, but with Smith, SKA did not advance beyond the quarterfinals of the playoffs, which could not please either the management or the fans.
SKA won its fourth Spengler Cup in 2010 under the leadership of the Czech Vaclav Sikora. In the final between the Canadian team and SKA, the score was 4:3 in favor of the St. Petersburg team.
Going for the Gagarin Cup
Further - more. Two years later, SKA is a finalist in the Western Conference. However, Dynamo Moscow, the future KHL champion, stood in the way of the army team. Next season, SKA will already win the Continental Cup - a trophy that is awarded best team based on the results regular season. Also, the army team is replenished by such masters as Ilya Kovalchuk, who shone for a long time in the NHL (in the now defunct Atlanta Thrashers, as well as in the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils), and Sergei Bobrovsky - perhaps one of best goalkeepers modernity (now plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets). However, it was not possible to take the Gagarin Cup again, the matter was limited only bronze medals. It is interesting that the top scorer of the Gagarin Cup was, however, SKA forward Viktor Tikhonov, who later also tried his hand overseas in the Arizona Coyotes (formerly Phoenix) club.
2015 was a triumphant year for SKA, when the club, in its seventh year in the KHL, finally won the Gagarin Cup. Everything was decided by the fifth match between SKA and Ak Bars Kazan in the final series.
Confrontation with CSKA
The game with the SKA-CSKA sign is today considered one of the most exciting in the entire KHL championship. Recent history confrontations between two large army clubs begin in 2007. The advantage, oddly enough, is on the side of the St. Petersburg residents. Interestingly, during the last two Western Conference finals, the viewer could watch the incredible hockey of SKA-CSKA. Two years ago SKA won, a year ago - CSKA, and the score in the last conference final was devastating - the Muscovites won with a score of 4:0.
The most notable SKA players
SKA is a team that has long boasted some of the best hockey players in Russia and Europe. Now the main stars of the club are strikers Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Datsyuk, Sergei Plotnikov, and Evgeniy Dadonov. Among the Defenders we can highlight Vyacheslav Voinov and Evgeny Chudinov. There are, of course, talented young people: for example, twenty-one-year-old goalkeeper and nineteen-year-old defender Yegor Rykov.
