The composition of SKA for 2017-2018 has changed slightly. The team was forced to resort to new transfers, since two main attackers from the first link left in the off-season: Vadim Shipachev and Evgeny Dadonov. The first of them will continue his career in Vegas, and the second in Florida (both clubs from). The remaining losses in the face of two spare goalkeepers, forward Moses and defender Yudin will not affect the game of the army team.
As you know, in hockey, the goalkeeper is half the team. The result of the matches largely depends on the goalkeeper's performance, so the composition of the main goalkeepers of SKA remained unchanged. In the 2017-2018 season, St. Petersburg will have to reflect the puck:
- Mikka Koskinen;
- Igor Shesterkin;
- Konstantin Volkov.
Obviously, the place of the main keeper belongs to the young Russian Igor Shesterkin. He played 39 games last season with an impressive 93.7% save percentage. His replacement Finn Mikka Koskinen played 23 games in the regular season with a figure of 91.6%. The position of the third goalkeeper, which SKA only needs to complete the squad, belongs to Konstantin Volkov. Usually the reserve goalkeeper is allowed to play no more than 1-2 games. For example, Evgeny Ivannikov, who moved to Lada, defended the gates of the army team only once last season.
defensive line
Contracts with the club in the offseason extended the vast majority of hockey players. The composition of SKA for 2017-2018 in defense is as follows:
- Artem Zub;
- Dinar Khafizullin;
- Roman Rukavishnikov;
- Patrick Hersley;
- David Rundblad;
- Vyacheslav Voynov;
- Andrey Zubarev;
- Egor Yakovlev;
- Vladislav Gavrikov;
- Egor Rykov;
- Maxim Chudinov;
- Anton Belov.
Good performance in the past marked the defenders of the first two links. Vyacheslav Voinov scored 37 points in the goal + pass system, Anton Belov - 27, Yegor Yakovlev - 21. Obviously, the army team will not experience problems with supporting the attack during the match and when playing extra. In addition, when defending their own goals, the defenders show a good game, because last season 112 goals were missed in 60 fights (less than 2 per match). Only CSKA Moscow, which took the puck out of its own net 104 times, can boast of a smaller indicator.
In general, the SKA defense does not need to be strengthened: here are some of the best hockey players in the world who know their stuff 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 the departure of Shipachyov and Dadonov, a gap appeared in the attack of the first and second links. A number of new players are called upon to fill the attacking potential of the team. In the summer transfer window, the SKA roster for the 2017-2018 season was replenished with: Viktor Komarov (Lada), Danila Kvartalnov (CSKA), Sergey Kalinin (Toronto, NHL), Maxim Karpov (Dynamo Moscow) ). Also on offense will be:
- Jarno Koskeranta;
- Ilya Kovalchuk (captain);
- Viktor Tikhonov;
- Arkhip Nikolenko;
- Sergey Plotnikov;
- Ilya Kablukov;
- Evgeny Ketov;
- Sergei Shirokov;
- Nikolay 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 feel the difference, let's look at the numbers of the closest pursuer of the army team in this component - Metallurg Magnitogorsk had only 199 goals for 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 St. Petersburg remained one of the most powerful in the league.
Thus, the composition of SKA in 2017-2018 did not weaken compared to the previous draw. The club still has a pool of talented stickmasters ready to fight for the highest places. The main goal of the "soldiers" from the banks of the Neva, of course, will be the Gagarin Cup, for the conquest of which they will make every effort.
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At the end of 1946, the All-Union Committee for physical education and sports decided to hold the USSR championship in Canadian hockey. Since the last days of 1946, all the oldest hockey clubs in Russia have traced their pedigree - CSKA, Dynamo, Spartak and SKA. The first name of our team was the whimsically sounding now “House of Officers named after. CM. Kirov. The team was headed by Alexander Semenov.
Birthday
The Leningrad officers played the first match 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 playing coach. The debut of the Leningraders failed. 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 forfeit defeat for not showing up for the match with the Sverdlovsk House of Officers. IN final part Leningraders didn't make it to 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 fell into the elite. Until 1991, the army team invariably played on highest 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 a step away from the podium, in fourth place. Only one victory was not enough for the army team to overtake the Wings of the Soviets. But top scorer Belyai Bekyashev from Leningrad became the leader of LDO attacks. He scored almost half of the team's goals - 34 out of 86. Dynamo Sverdlovsk suffered the most from the forward. In the first match, Bekyashev scored 9 goals against the Sverdlovsk team, and eight in the second.
First team success
Championship 55/56 "District House of Officers" began with great success. The army team won 9 out of 10 starting matches. However, an unsuccessful game at the end of the season deprived them of medals. The team again settled in fourth place 4 points away from bronze. The best sniper of the team was again Bekyashev, who scored 37 goals.
This success continued. Hockey players ODO S. Litovko, A. Zhogol, E. Volkov, A. Nikiforov, V. Yelesin, V. Pogrebnyak, B. Bekyashev and K. Fedorov were called up to the USSR national team, which went to the World Winter student games 1956. Soviet athletes became winners. All the 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 meant "Sports Club of the Military District". Under this name, the Leningraders played for two seasons. In the championship, 57/58 took first place in the preliminary group, having won 5 wins in 5 matches. However, in final stage they were not so successful - 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 in the 50s, Nikolai Georgievich Puchkov, became the new head coach of SKA. His arrival was a landmark event for Leningrad hockey. For almost twenty years (with short breaks) this wonderful coach led SKA and achieved great success with the team. Puchkov developed his signature tactic - an effective defense game - 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 notable success with the army team in the 1966/67 season. Reliably playing defensively, the Leningraders were in the leading group for the entire season, but in the end they were again content with fourth place. Three points were missing from the podium. The best sniper of the team 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 Yermak, Chelyabinsk Voskhod, Kiev Dynamo and Moscow Lokomotiv with a total score of 32:7. However, in the final they lost big to CSKA 1:7.
The successes of our hockey players have not gone unnoticed. 4 army men were invited to the junior team of the USSR, 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 country's main national team at the Izvestia Prize tournament
Spengler Cup
At the very end of 1970, the army team flashed on the international stage. From Davos, Switzerland, they brought an honorary trophy - the Spengler Cup. This 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 Düsseldorf and the host of the tournament HC Davos.
First bronze
In the 1970/71 season, the army team also had a resounding success in the championship. The first bronze medals were brought to the team by the same signature Puchkov's game, with an emphasis on attentiveness in defense. In the key match of the season, the Leningraders defeated Spartak with a score of 4:3. The stands of the brand new "Yubileyny", packed to capacity, witnessed the first success of SKA. Yury Glazov became the best scorer of Leningraders in the bronze season with 30 points (26 + 4).
A real sensation was made by SKA in the USSR Cup. IN semifinal match in Moscow, Leningraders beat CSKA with a score of 7:5. However, in the final, they lost to the main competitor in the fight for the bronze of the championship, 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 Czechoslovak Slovan, the Japanese national team, the Swedish Modo and the Swiss La Chaux-de-Fond became the victims of the Leningraders.
First time at the World Cup
The crown of a successful segment of the history of SKA was the participation of three army men at once in the World Championship. In 1972, Nikolai Puchkov was invited to the coaching staff of the USSR national team. He, goalkeeper Vladimir Shepovalov and striker 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.
Again Switzerland, again the Cup
After the bronze in 1971, the army team failed to gain a foothold in the leading positions in the championship and rolled back to the middle, or even the bottom of the table. One of the few successes of SKA in the late 70s was the third victory in the Spengler Cup. The team, in which the Solodukhin brothers continued to play and the young Aleksey Kasatonov and Nikolai Drozdetsky began their bright career, 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 worked at full capacity in the Northern capital. Goalkeeper Yevgeny Belosheikin, defenders Alexei Gusarov and Alexei Kasatonov and, of course, forward Nikolai Drozdetsky shone in CSKA and the USSR national team. This guy from Kolpino, who had been choosing between football and hockey for a long time, quickly burst into the ranks the best players THE USSR. At the age of 18, he already played at the base of 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 Sarajevo Olympics, thanks in large part to his excellent game 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
Valery Vasilievich Shilov became the creator of the second bronze of Leningrad hockey. He took over the team from the hands of 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 recognized leaders scored more than them - CSKA and Dynamo. The return to the home team of Nikolai Drozdetsky also came in handy. The forward moved to Leningrad at the right time - in January 1987 and gave a crazy stretch 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 he 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 in 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 Sergey Pushkov, Sergey Shendelev and Dmitry Frolov also became victors.
Semifinal MHL
Changes in the country have changed not only the name of the Russian ice hockey championship, but also the formula for holding it. The playoffs have appeared in the MHL. In the second draw of the Interethnic Hockey League, the St. Petersburg army team reached the semifinals. Mikhailov's team eliminated Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Salavat Yulaev from Ufa. However, two steps away from the trophy, the future champion, the Togliatti Lada, stopped the army team. Interestingly, the colors of that SKA were defended by both the bronze medalists of 1987 Dmitry Kukushkin, Yuri Gaylik, 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 was headed by the first foreign coach in the history of the team. It was the American specialist Barry Smith. For 20 years, he worked as an assistant head coach for the NHL clubs Buffalo Sabers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings. Won the Stanley Cup five times. Under his leadership, SKA regularly reached the playoffs, but in the knockout games they could not advance beyond the quarterfinals.
Gorovikov and Sushinsky are world champions
After a 15-year break, the Russian national ice hockey team became the world champion. And again, this triumph was not without SKA players. Maxim Sushinsky played 9 games in the championship and scored 5 points (4+1), while Konstantin Gorovikov earned 4 points (2+2) in the same 9 matches.
Gorovikov's second gold
A year later, Russia repeated the world success on Swiss ice. Forward Konstantin Gorovikov became the first ever two-time world champion in SKA. He again participated 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 wards of Vaclav Sikora easily surpassed the Czech "Sparta" and the Swiss "Servette". In the semi-final, we again dealt with 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, Alexei Yashin and Maxim Afinogenov also scored on the puck.
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, the team of Milos Rzhiga dealt with CSKA and Atlant without any problems, but again stopped a stone's throw from the main goal, the Gagarin Cup. This time, the future champion Dynamo Moscow became the stumbling block. Some compensation for the failure in the finals of the conference was the performance of the Russian team at the World Championships. Russians brought gold from Sweden and Finland. Contributed to the victory and our defender Dmitry Kalinin.
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 the nearest pursuer, and for the first time in history became the owners of the Continental Cup. In the playoffs, SKA again reached the final of the Conference, eventually winning the bronze medals of the national championship, and the forward of the army team Viktor Tikhonov became the best sniper of the Gagarin Cup.
SKA players at the World Cup
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 striker Viktor Tikhonov became the best sniper and scorer (out of 16 points - 8 goals), as well as the best forward and entered the symbolic five of the tournament. His new teammate Anton Belov also turned out to be 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. Nevertheless, Petersburgers updated best result in club history silver medals SKA won for the first time.
Gagarin Cup!
On April 19, having defeated Kazan's Ak Bars in the fifth game of the final, SKA became the owner 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 the first in KHL history bounced back from a score of 0:3 in the series.
SKA - 70!
The 2016/17 season was special for the army team from the very start, because the club turned 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 Zvezda SKA magazine, which became a historical almanac with the rarest photos and interviews of the club's veterans, an Internet page where one could study how the army uniforms have changed over the decades, to 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 the fans were treated to a colorful show and an updated Hall 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.
Country Champions
On April 16, in the fifth match of the Gagarin Cup final against Metallurg Magnitogorsk, SKA won the fourth victory in the series and became the owner of 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 champion of Russia!
Second Continental Cup
For the second time in history, SKA won the KHL regular season.
The army team won 47 wins in 56 games in the 2017/18 season, 14 points ahead of the main competitor for the leadership of CSKA. In addition, SKA for the fourth time won the bronze of the national championship and for the fifth time won the Vsevolod Bobrov Prize, becoming the most productive team in the league.
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Today HC SKA is one of the most successful clubs in Russia. Petersburg team from year to year 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 championship of the USSR. The Leningrad officers played their debut game against the team of Vasily Stalin - the MVO Air Force. The result was major defeat Leningrad army team with a score of 3:7.
The army team received its current name only thirteen years after its 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 sport Club army). Muscovites have been considered the flagship of domestic hockey for 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 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. It happened in the 71st year, successful for the army. Before that, only the fourth place was the best achievement of SKA. It was not very hard to believe that this could be possible, but at that time Nikolai Puchkov, one of the greatest specialists of that time, led the Leningraders. He was a proponent of an organized and disciplined game that prioritizes faultless defensive play.
The second bronze came to Leningraders very slowly: only in 1987. The philosophy of the team was radically different from the one that Puchkov instilled in his SKA. What happened to the team? The style has changed: the club began to show an aggressive attacking game, aimed primarily at the opponent's goal.
Modern period
In the nineties, the team had a difficult period, but this is SKA! What are the difficulties for a club with such traditions? The army team had to play even in the First League, but the team quickly returned to the elite.
However, SKA began to really come into its own only in the 2000s. In 2007, a significant event took place for the team: the first foreign coach came to the team. They became the Canadian Barry Smith. Prior to that, he only worked with the teams of the National Hockey League (Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit, Phoenix), so this was also a kind of challenge for him. This appointment did not become a failure, but with Smith, SKA did not go 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 Petersburgers.
Campaign for the Gagarin Cup
Further more. Two years later, SKA is a finalist in the Western Conference. However, Dynamo Moscow, the future champion of the KHL, stood in the way of the army team. Next season, SKA is already winning the Continental Cup - a trophy that is awarded to the best team according to the results regular season. Also, the composition of the army is replenished by such masters as Ilya Kovalchuk, who shone in the NHL for a long time (in the already defunct Atlanta Thrashers, as well as in the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils), and Sergei Bobrovsky - perhaps one of the best goalkeepers modernity (now playing in the Columbus Blue Jackets). However, it was not possible to take it to the Gagarin Cup again, the matter was limited only to bronze medals. Interestingly, the top scorer of the Gagarin Cup was, nevertheless, SKA striker Viktor Tikhonov, who later also tried his hand at the Ocean in the Arizona Coyotes (formerly Phoenix) club.
The year 2015 was a triumph for SKA, when the club, in its seventh year in the KHL, finally won the Gagarin Cup. Everything was decided by the fifth match of SKA and Kazan "Ak Bars" in the final series.
Confrontation with CSKA
The game with the SKA-CSKA sign is today considered one of the brightest in the entire KHL championship. recent history confrontation between two large army clubs begins in 2007. The advantage, oddly enough, is on the side of the Petersburgers. Interestingly, during the last two finals of the Western Conference, the viewer could watch the incredible hockey SKA-CSKA. Two years ago, SKA won, a year ago - CSKA, and the score in the last conference final was devastating - Muscovites won 4-0.
The most notable SKA players
SKA is a team in which some of the best hockey players in Russia and Europe have been playing for a long time. Now the main stars of the club are strikers Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Datsyuk, Sergey Plotnikov, and Evgeny Dadonov. Among the Defenders, Vyacheslav Voinov and Evgeny Chudinov can be distinguished. There are, of course, talented young people: for example, twenty-one-year-old goalkeeper and nineteen-year-old defender Yegor Rykov.
