Game seven of the KHL final was exactly the tense, exciting, take-your-breath-away affair you started watching hockey for in the first place.
CSKA Moscow has never won a championship in the post-Soviet era. The team has been playing hockey in every league since the formation of the Soviet League in 1946, and in the old days they were so dominant they won the championship 13 years in a row beginning in 1977.
— KHL (@khl) 19 April 2016
We called them Red Army in those days, and they were the symbol of Russian hockey to the West.