ice hockey teams of the former Soviet Union. During its 1993–94 season, the SKA managed to advance to the IHL Cup semi-finals but lost to that year's champion Lada Togliatti. The club was less successful in the Russian Superleague, which replaced the IHL as the main Russian championship since 1996, failing to get further than the first playoff rounds. The formation of the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008 marked the beginning of a new era for the team. HC SKA got into their first Conference Finals during the 2011–12 season and finishing first during the regular season the next year winning the 2012–13 Continental Cup. In the 2015 Gagarin Cup playoffs, after defeating both Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and Dynamo Moscow in five games in the first two rounds, HC SKA were in the Western Conference Finals for the third time in four years this time facing CSKA Moscow. HC SKA were already down 0–3 after the first three games, but managed to rebound and win the next four straight clinching the series 4–3. This made them the first team in KHL history to win a playoff series after being down three games to none. The team would go on to defeat Ak Bars Kazan 4–1 to win the Gagarin Cup and become the KHL champions, the first nationwide championship in club history. But they could not manage to retain the Gagarin Cup in the following season, as they were swept by 2015–16 Continental Cup winners CSKA Moscow in the Conference Finals and finished in 3rd place. In the 2016–17 KHL season, SKA drew an average home attendance of 11,735. Awards and trophies Team Gagarin Cup Winners (2): 2014–15, 2016–17 Continental Cup Winners (2): 2012–13, 2017–18,2022–23 Opening Cup Winners (2): 2017–18, 2018–19 Soviet Championship League 3rd place (2): 1970–71, 1986–87 Pre-season Spengler Cup Winners (4): 1970, 1971, 1977, 2010 Motorola Cup Winners (1): 1983 Puchkov Cup Winners (6): 2008,2015,2017,2018,2019,2021,2022 Basel Summer Ice Hockey Winners (1): 2009 Donbass Open Cup Winners (1): 2011 President of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Cup Winners (1): 2012 Tournament Hameenlinna Winners (1): 2013 Sochi Winter Cup Winners (1): 2022 Season-by-season record Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTW = Overtime/shootout wins, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against Players Current roster All-time KHL scoring leaders These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history. Figures