HC SKA Saint Petersburg is a member of the Bobrov Division in the KHL and utilizes the nickname "Soldiers," as the SKA stands for Sportivnyi Klub Armii, or "Sports Club of the Army." Along with HC CSKA Moscow, SKA is one of the oldest franchises in the league, as their roots trace back to 1946, when they were originally called Kirov LDO. For a while, the team was known as SKA Leningrad until 1991, when the city name was changed to Saint Petersburg. SKA will be seeing more of Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexei Poonikarovsky, as both signed with the team this offseason, and they will join the likes of Kevin Dallman, Viktor Tikhonov, and Dmitri Kalinin, all of whom are established players in the KHL.
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