95 years since the birth of Nikolai Puchkov

Nikolai Puchkov, one of the greatest goalkeepers and coaches in the history of SKA Hockey Club, would today have turned 95 years of age.

When coaching SKA, he led our team to third position of the 1971 USSR Championship, the first time our club had managed to win a medal of the domestic league. Furthermore, he twice coached SKA to the final of the USSR Cup and Spengler Cup glory.

Nikolai was inducted into SKA's Hall of Fame on 20 September 2003. Two years later, in August 2005, he sadly passed away in Saint Petersburg.