Since their formation in 1946, SKA Saint Petersburg (under their original name SKA Leningrad) has never won a major championship domestically. That has officially changed thanks to their Gagarin Cup Finals series win over a very good Ak Bars Kazan team in five games. Getting to this point wasn't easy, as they had beat Torpedo in the first round, and from there, to overcome their arch nemesis Dynamo Moscow in the Conference semi-finals, as well as a 3-0 series deficit to CSKA in the Conference Finals to make it here. Evgeny Dadonov set a KHL record for most goals in the playoffs and Ilya Kovalchuk was named playoff MVP, something that he handed off to Dadonov in a show of team unity. It was a long season and an even longer wait, but the city of Saint Petersburg finally has a championship and the second largest city in Russia is out of Moscow's shadow for this moment.
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