In his first professional season, Alexander Romanov won the Gagarin Cup with his team, CSKA Moscow. The Tsar didn’t play in the latter part of the playoffs, but was more than happy to celebrate in style with the teammates he played and practised with.
In a season for the ages, Romanov received the award for best defender in the World Junior Hockey Championship while collecting a bronze medal with Team Russia. He played 43 regular-season games with CSKA and has four playoff games to his name. He was injured during the quarter-finals though still served as the seventh defender in the Western conference semifinal series against Dynamo Moscow, and has had the same role during the series against SKA Saint Petersburg and Avangard Omsk.