SKA Saint Petersburg
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SKA Saint Petersburg is a Russia
n professional ice hockey
club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League
. SKA is an abbreviation for "Sports (K)Club of the Army". In spite of its long history, they have never competed in a league final.
On October 4, 2010, the team defeated the Carolina Hurricanes
5–3 in an exhibition game.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n professional ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
. SKA is an abbreviation for "Sports (K)Club of the Army". In spite of its long history, they have never competed in a league final.
On October 4, 2010, the team defeated the Carolina Hurricanes
Carolina Hurricanes
The Carolina Hurricanes are a professional ice hockey team based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League , and play their home games at the 18,680-seat RBC Center...
5–3 in an exhibition game.
Runners-up
- Soviet LeagueSoviet Hockey LeagueThe Soviet Championship was the highest level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union, running from 1946 to 1992. Before the 1940s the game of ice hockey was not cultivated in Russia, instead the more popular form of hockey was bandy, with history of the game in Russia dating several centuries into...
Championship (2): 1971, 1987