KHL - Bobrov Division - Хоккейный клуб СКА

The club was established in 1946 as a top level club of the Soviet Hockey Championship to participate in its first season. The original name was Kirov LDO (Kirov Leningrad Officers’ Club). It was subsequently changed to ODO (District Officers' Club) in 1953, SKVO (Sports Club of the Military District) in 1957 and finally Sportivnyi Klub Armii (Sport Club of the Army) in 1959. During the Soviet era SKA (along with CSKA Moscow) belonged to the Ministry of Defense sports club system and consisted of Leningrad Military District officers.
After finishing last in their group during the first season LDO skipped the next season and was downgraded to the second level of the championship in 1948. The club returned to the Soviet Class A in 1950–51 and remained in the top division of the Soviet league until 1991. The highest achievements of the club during that time were 1968 and 1971 Soviet Cup Finals (the former was lost to CSKA Moscow 7–1, the latter to Spartak Moscow 5–1) as well as the bronze medals of the 1970–71 and 1986–87 Soviet Championships.
After one season in the second level division of the Soviet League (the first and the only CIS Championship) SKA joined the International Ice Hockey League established by the top ice hockey teams of the former Soviet Union. During its 1993–94 season SKA managed to advance to the IHL Cup semi-finals but lost to that year's champion Lada Togliatti. The club was less successful in the Russian Superleague that replaced IHL as the main Russian championship since 1996 failing to get further than the first playoff rounds.
The formation of the KHL marked the beginning of a new era for the team. HC SKA got into their first conference finals during the 2011–12 season and finishing first during the regular season won the 2012–13 Continental Cup. In April 2015 the team has won the Gagarin Cup to become the KHL Champion, the first nationwide championship in club history. They are owned by Gazprom now.

Honors   
Runners-up - 2015
KHL:
2008-09 - 10th
2009-10 - 9th
2010-11 - 7th
2011-12 - 4th
2012-13 - 3rd
2013-14 - 5th
2014-15 - 1st

Roster

-	forward	Aberg Pontus	23.09.1993	Sweden
69	defense	Alexandrov Denis	17.01.1995	Russia
-	defense	Andersson Calle	16.05.1994	Sweden
44	forward	Artyukhin Evgeny	04.04.1983	Russia
94	forward	Barabanov Alexander	17.06.1994	Russia	30.04.2017
77	defense	Belov Anton	29.07.1986	Russia	30.04.2018
44	defense	Belov Nikolai	13.08.1987	Russia
37	goaltender	Bogdanov Nikita	13.02.1995	Russia
-	forward	Burakovski Andre	09.02.1995	Sweden
71	forward	Burdasov Anton	09.05.1991	Russia	30.04.2017
73	defense	Chudinov Maxim	25.03.1990	Russia	30.04.2016
63	forward	Dadonov Evgeny	12.03.1989	Russia	30.04.2017
22	defense	Demidov Nikolai	16.11.1995	Russia
33	goaltender	Ezhov Ilya	12.01.1987	Russia	30.04.2016
-	defense	Gasyukov Daniil	26.07.1994	Russia
-	forward	Grebennikov Ilya	13.01.1987	Russia
29	forward	Kablukov Ilya	18.01.1988	Russia	30.04.2016
89	forward	Kadeikin Alexander	04.10.1993	Russia
7	defense	Kalinin Dmitry	22.07.1980	Russia	30.04.2017
40	forward	Ketov Evgeny	17.01.1986	Russia	30.04.2017
3	defense	Khafizullin Dinar	05.01.1989	Russia	30.04.2016
-	forward	Khatsei Arseny	28.01.1994	Russia
75	forward	Khokhryakov Pyotr	16.01.1990	Russia
-	forward	Komarov Viktor	17.02.1994	Russia
19	goaltender	Koskinen Mikko	18.07.1988	Finland	30.04.2016
40	forward	Koskiranta Jarno	09.12.1986	Finland
-	defense	Kostygov Boris	04.02.1995	Russia
17	forward	Kovalchuk Ilya	15.04.1983	Russia	30.04.2017
-	forward	Lehkonen Artturi	04.07.1995	Finland
-	forward	Lindholm Elias	02.12.1994	Sweden
11	forward	Lindstrom Joakim	05.12.1983	Sweden
-	defense	Lyutov Dmitry	06.12.1988	Russia	30.04.2016
-	defense	Moskalyov Artyom	24.06.1995	Russia
-	defense	Musil David	09.04.1993	Czech Republic
-	defense	Nielsen Jonatan	11.09.1993	Sweden
-	forward	Orlovich-Grudkov Denis	03.11.1995	Russia
72	forward	Panarin Artemy	30.10.1991	Russia
23	forward	Ponikarovsky Alexei	09.04.1980	Russia
5	defense	Rukavishnikov Roman	20.07.1992	Russia	30.04.2017
30	goaltender	Shestyorkin Igor	30.12.1995	Russia
87	forward	Shipachyov Vadim	12.03.1987	Russia	30.04.2017
90	forward	Soshnikov Nikita	14.10.1993	Russia
73	defense	Tikhonov Mikhail	15.09.1995	Russia
10	forward	Tikhonov Viktor	12.05.1988	Russia
20	forward	Toluzakov Filipp	10.01.1989	Russia
44	defense	Yakovlev Yegor	17.09.1991	Russia
58	defense	Yudin Dmitry	31.07.1995	Russia	30.04.2017
3	defense	Zubarev Andrei	03.03.1987	Russia

Arena
Ice Palace 12,300
Dobrolyubova prosp. 16/2 lit. A, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197198
 

NHL News

Washington: Expectations for Capitals forward Marcus Johansson will be high this season. On Friday, an arbitrator awarded him a one-year, $3.75 million contract. Johansson, taken by Washington with the 24th pick in the 2009 NHL Draft, scored a career-high 20 goals and 47 points last season. With center Nicklas Backstrom recovering from hip surgery, and the additions of Justin Williams and T.J. Oshie, the top-six forward group in Washington is in flux. Backstrom is expected to be ready for the season opener, but the Capitals are preparing for any possibility. That includes inserting Johansson, who turns 25 on Oct. 6, into a larger role. Johansson played top-six minutes and on the power play last season, and MacLellan said he envisions him in a similar role this season in addition to working on his two-way game. Johansson was one of two Capitals to file for arbitration. Goaltender Braden Holtby signed a five-year, $30.5 million contract after his July 23 arbitration hearing. Comparable players were easier to find in Johansson's case, and MacLellan said that made the process a bit easier than with Holtby, where finding an apples-to-apples comparison with age, experience and salary was tougher. MacLellan said the Capitals aren't planning on making any roster moves right now but haven't ruled out the possibility. With limited remaining space under the NHL salary cap, if Washington wanted to add a player, it would most likely be via trade. The Capitals are about $1.5 million under the salary cap, according to war-on-ice.com.


Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan: "It's going to be more competitive on the team this year, with a deeper top six, and you're going to have to play well and compete hard to keep your job just like everyone else. Hopefully it's a competitive environment and the whole team will benefit from it. Marcus could be a potential penalty-killer. We haven't used him [there] much, but the way he skates … we want him to evolve into a better all-around two-way player, and he has the potential to be offensive and be defensive, but he's a young guy and he's improving. We wanted to pursue a longer-term deal. There [were] differences from the get-go with the value we had on the player and in the marketplace. In our case, the negotiations kind of stalled at certain evaluation points and it didn't feel like it was moving forward. It [arbitration] was an effective tool to get deals done. We're exploring a couple things, but I would say we're done for now. We could fit a cheaper player in if we chose to right now; it's just a matter of what impact it does on players that we've chosen to play right now. We could possibly add, we could not."

2016 World Juniors Camp: Left wing Matthew Tkachuk is a regular chip off the old block. Tkachuk, son of former NHL player Keith Tkachuk and a potential top-five pick in the 2016 NHL Draft, had three goals and two assists for the United States white team in a 10-4 exhibition win against Sweden on Monday during USA Hockey's national junior evaluation camp at Lake Placid Olympic Center's 1980 Herb Brooks Arena. The camp will help determine the roster for the United States at the 2016 World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland, to be played from Dec. 26, 2015, through Jan. 5, 2016. Matthew Tkachuk will play for London in the Ontario Hockey League this season.

"Tkachuk was our best player; he looked like his old man out there, who I coached previously," U.S. coach Ron Wilson said. "He did his dad proud. He looks like he's going to get to stay with us. He was one of the borderline calls [as one of the younger players] but he made up for it and we have no problem keeping him around."

Wilson said after the game he expects to trim the 39-player evaluation roster by seven forwards and three defensemen. Tkachuk, 17, scored a natural hat trick in the second period, including one while on his knees and poking at the puck from the slot. Tkachuk, who scored 38 goals and 96 points in 65 games for the United States National Junior Team, was all smiles when told that Wilson compared his style of play to his father.
"He has a long way to go with regard to his size (6-foot, 188 pounds), but he has a nose for the net and fights and claws and he's tenacious like his dad was. He scored a goal that reminded me just like his dad, on his knees, getting a rebound. That's a Keith Tkachuk goal."
Right wing Brock Boeser (Vancouver Canucks) scored three goals for the United States. Wilson said center Dylan Larkin, who was selected in the first round (No. 15) by the Detroit Red Wings at the 2014 NHL Draft, had his best effort in two scrimmages. Larkin, who had two assists as the center for Boeser, was considered by many to be the top forward for the United States at the 2015 WJC in Montreal and Toronto. U.S. right wing Anders Bjork (Boston Bruins) had two goals and one assist. Defenseman Rasmus Andersson (Calgary Flames) scored twice for Sweden.
"Up to this point, I don't think he had done as much as I would have hoped for but [on Monday] he was much better, He's the best player we have by reputation and by his work in other tournaments. He's very highly rated by USA Hockey, but he hadn't really brought it until [Monday] afternoon. I feel we will have good balance once we get both teams together. We're strong at center, especially on the white team. We have that checking center as well; you can't have a team that's all offense, and you have to have people in their roles. I think we've identified those people in their roles."

NHL Announce Ground-Breaking Media Deal

The National Hockey League and Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, today announced a groundbreaking digital media rights partnership. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred jointly announced the six-year agreement at NHL headquarters.


Key details of the partnership include:
• MLBAM receives exclusive rights to distribute live, out-of-market NHL telecasts in the United States and certain international markets, including via the NHL GameCenter LIVE subscription service.
• MLBAM receives exclusive rights to distribute live, out-of-market telecasts via the NHL Center Ice subscription service in the United States to cable, satellite and over-the-air broadcasters.
• MLBAM receives exclusive rights to operate the NHL Network as an agent for the NHL. The NHL Network's daily on-air operations will be based out of MLB Network's headquarters in Secaucus, N.J.


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