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Contents.History The club was founded in 1946 as CDKA ( Centralnyy Dom Krasnoy Armii – Central House of the, referring to the Army community centre in Moscow). It was known as CDSA (with Red Army changed to ) from 1952 – 1954, as CSK MO (Central Sports Club of the ) from 1955 – 1959, and acquired its current name in 1960.As a hockey powerhouse CSKA won 32 Soviet regular season championships during the Soviet League's 46-year existence, far and away the most in the league's history; no other team won more than five. This included all but six from 1955 to 1989 and 13 in a row from 1977 to 1989. By comparison, no NHL team has won more than five in a row since the NHL took de facto control of the trophy in 1926.CSKA was just as dominant in the. They won all but two titles from 1969 to 1990, including 13 in a row from 1978 to 1990. The team's first coach was, who would later become famous as the coach of the.
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Tarasov coached the Red Army Team, either alone or with co-coaches, for most of the time from 1946 to 1975. The team's greatest run came under, who was coach from 1977 to 1996—serving for most of that time as coach of the national team. Who was the Head Coach of the team for 22 years in totalThe Red Army Team was able to pull off such a long run of dominance because during the Soviet era, the entire CSKA organization was a functioning division of the Soviet Armed Forces via the Ministry of Defence.
Taking full advantage of the fact that all able-bodied Soviet males had to serve in the military, it was literally able to draft the best young hockey players in the Soviet Union onto the team. There was a substantial overlap between the rosters of the Red Army Team and the Soviet national team, which was one factor behind the Soviets' near-absolute dominance of international hockey from the 1950s through the early 1990s. By the late 1980s, however, the long run of Red Army dominance caused a significant dropoff in attendance throughout the league.One of the most feared lines in hockey history was the KLM Line of the 1980s. The name came from the last names of the three players,. Together with defensemen and, they were known as the Green Unit because they wore green jerseys in practice. The five-man unit formed a dominant force in European hockey throughout the decade. All five players were later permitted to go to the NHL in 1989, with mixed results.
Krutov had the shortest NHL career, lasting only one season in; Makarov (who won the in 1990) and Kasatonov were out of the NHL by 1997; Fetisov and Larionov won the Stanley Cup twice together with before Fetisov retired in 1998; Larionov would win a third Cup with Detroit in 2002, before retiring from in 2004.Not surprisingly, discipline was quite strict, especially under Tikhonov. His players practiced for as many as 11 months a year, and were confined to training camp (an Army ) most of that time even if they were married. However, it became less restrictive after the collapse of the Soviet Union.At the, out of 6 players selected 4 players once played at CSKA Moscow.CSKA and the NHL. Main article:CSKA played 36 games against NHL teams from 1975 to 1991 and finished with a record of 26 wins, 8 losses, and 2 ties. 34 of these games were played in, including the of North America in 1975/1976. The Super Series also introduced eventual goaltender of the CSKA squad to North American ice hockey fans.
On New Year's Eve 1975, CSKA played the, widely regarded as the league's finest team (and that year's eventual Stanley Cup winners). The game ended with a 3–3, but was widely hailed as one of the greatest games ever played. The goaltender of theAnother was played on 11 January 1976 against the, who at the time were the defending Stanley Cup Champions and were known as the 'Broad Street Bullies' for their highly physical play. The game was notable for an incident where, after a delivered by Philadelphia's, the CSKA's top player, (like Tretiak eventually a Hall of Famer), was left prone on the ice for a minute. CSKA coach pulled his team off the ice in protest that no penalty was called. They were told by NHL president to return to the ice and finish the game, which was being broadcast to an international audience, or the Soviet Hockey Federation would not get paid the fee that they were entitled to. They eventually complied and lost the game 4–1.CSKA Moscow alumni have made a large impact on the NHL; perhaps the largest impact came with the of the mid-1990s., and had established themselves as key members of the Wings when they were joined by and, forming the.
These five players would play an integral role in the Wings' consecutive Stanley Cup championships in. Joined the 1998 squad, following Konstantinov's career-ending injury on 13 June 1997; since Konstantinov was kept on the roster despite his injury, the 1998 squad marks the largest contingent of CSKA veterans (six) to win the.Super Series game log: 26–2–8 (home: 2–0–0; road: 24–2–8). CSKA celebrating victoryAlthough CSKA has remained one of the strongest teams in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it did not win a title in the or its predecessors until 2015, when the club finished first in the regular season and became for the first time in a long time, but failed to win the. From 2008 to 2016, the team did not advance past the conference semifinals of the Gagarin Cup playoffs; they missed the playoffs altogether in 2011.
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