CSKA Moskva

CSKA Ice Palace, Vsevolod Bobrov

The club was founded in 1946 as CDKA (Centralnyy Dom Krasnoy Armii - Central House of the Red Army, referring to the Army community centre in Moscow). It was known as CDSA (with Red Army changed to Soviet Army) in 1952 - 1954, as CSK MO (Central Sports Club of the Moscow Military District) in 1955 - 1959, and acquired its current name in 1960.

CSKA was almost as dominant in the European Cup. They won all but two titles from 1969 to 1990, including 13 in a row from 1978 to 1990. The team first coach was Anatoli Tarasov, who would later become famous as the coach of the Soviet national team. 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 Viktor Tikhonov, who was coach from 1977 to 1996--serving for most of that time as coach of the national team.

The 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 Red Army. 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. 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 most of that time even if they were married. However, he mellowed somewhat after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

CSKA has remained one of the strongest clubs in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, though it has yet to win a championship. Off the ice, the massive exodus of Russian players to the NHL hit CSKA particularly hard, in part because, as mentioned above, nearly all of the country\\\'s best players were on the roster. For a time in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was briefly unofficially known as \\\"the Russian Penguins\\\" after the Pittsburgh Penguins bought an interest in the team.[1]

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, Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, and Sergei Makarov. Together with defensemen Viacheslav Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov, 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 Vancouver; Makarov (who won the Calder Trophy in 1990) and Kasatonov were out of the NHL by 1997; Fetisov and Larionov won the Stanley Cup twice together with Detroit before Fetisov retired in 1998; Larionov would win a third Cup with Detroit in 2002, before retiring from New Jersey in 2004.
At the IIHF Centennial All-Star Team, out of 6 players selected 4 players once played at CSKA Moscow.

• Boris Aleksandrov
• Helmuts Balderis
• Vsevolod Bobrov
• Pavel Bure
• Valeri Bure
• Nikolai Drozdetsky
• Sergei Fedorov
• Vyacheslav Fetisov
• Anatoli Firsov
• Alexander Frolov
• Alexei Gusarov
• Valeri Kamensky
• Alexei Kasatonov
• Nikolai Khabibulin
• Valeri Kharlamov
• Andrei Khomutov
• Vladimir Konstantinov
• Konstantin Korneyev
• Andrei Kovalenko
• Vyacheslav Kozlov
• Igor Kravchuk
• Vladimir Krutov
• Viktor Kuzkin
• Igor Larionov
• Sergei Makarov
• Vladimir Malakhov
• Boris Mikhailov
• Boris Mironov
• Dmitri Mironov
• Grigory Mkrtychan
• Alexander Mogilny
• Mikhail Orekhov
• Vladimir Petrov
• Nikolai Pronin
• Alexander Ragulin
• Anatoly Tarasov
• Vladislav Tretiak
• Gennady Tsygankov
• Nikolai Zherdev
• Viktor Zhluktov
• Sergei Zubov

• from 1946 to 1952: CDKA Moskva
• from 1952 to 1955: CDSA Moskva
• from 1955 to 1960: CSK MO Moskva
• from 1960 to present: CSKA Moskva

• 1996-1997: Vysshaya Liga (RUS-2)
• 1991-1992: Spengler Cup
• 1989-1990: European Cup
• 1988-1989: Soviet League
• 1988-1989: European Cup
• 1987-1988: European Cup
• 1987-1988: Soviet League
• 1986-1987: European Cup
• 1986-1987: Soviet League
• 1985-1986: European Cup
• 1985-1986: Soviet League
• 1984-1985: European Cup
• 1984-1985: Soviet League
• 1983-1984: European Cup
• 1983-1984: Soviet League
• 1982-1983: Soviet League
• 1982-1983: European Cup
• 1981-1982: Soviet League
• 1981-1982: European Cup
• 1980-1981: European Cup
• 1980-1981: Soviet League
• 1979-1980: Soviet League
• 1979-1980: European Cup
• 1978-1979: European Cup
• 1978-1979: Soviet League
• 1977-1978: Soviet League
• 1977-1978: European Cup
• 1976-1977: Soviet League
• 1975-1976: European Cup
• 1974-1975: Soviet League
• 1973-1974: European Cup
• 1972-1973: European Cup
• 1972-1973: Soviet League
• 1971-1972: Soviet League
• 1971-1972: European Cup
• 1970-1971: European Cup
• 1970-1971: Soviet League
• 1969-1970: European Cup
• 1969-1970: Soviet League
• 1968-1969: European Cup
• 1967-1968: Soviet League
• 1965-1966: Soviet League
• 1964-1965: Soviet League
• 1963-1964: Soviet League
• 1962-1963: Soviet League
• 1960-1961: Soviet League
• 1959-1960: Soviet League
• 1958-1959: Soviet League
• 1957-1958: Soviet League
• 1955-1956: Soviet League
• 1954-1955: Soviet League
• 1949-1950: Soviet League
• 1948-1949: Soviet League
• 1947-1948: Soviet League

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• Peski.ru (unofficial)
• Twitter (twitter)
• CSKA Moskva Hooligans (Fans site)
• Red-Blue Point Fans Forum (Fans site)
• CSKA Ultras (Fans site)
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