SKA's 2024/2025 presentation

SKA Hockey Club held the official presentation for the upcoming 2024/2025 season on 30 August.

In the morning, all of the players, coaches and staff members visited the Lakhta Centre, where the team went up to the top floor of the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and then met with the Chairman of the Management Board of PJSC Gazprom Alexei Miller and received his well-wishes for the campaign.

The event subsequently continued at the Repino-Leninskoye country club. In the first part of the presentation, an exhibition match of the SKA Academy teams was staged on the ice.

The official part started with welcoming speeches by the Head of the Presidential Directorate for State Policy in the Sphere of the Defence Industrial Complex Viktor Yevtukhov, Chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the Government of Saint Petersburg Anton Shantyr, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SKA Alexander Medvedev and SKA Head Coach Roman Rotenberg.

Members of the championship-winning 2023/2024 SKA-1946 side were presented with their special rings, before Medvedev, Rotenberg and Vladimir Yurzinov presented the senior SKA players with their season jerseys.

After the completion of the official part, an ice show was witnessed with the participation of Russian figure skating champion Adelia Petrosyan and students of the SKA Figure Skating Academy. Singer Tatyana Kurtukova also performed for the guests of the presentation.

The final part of the presentation included a charity friendly match with the participation of SKA coaches and players, as well as honourary guests of the presentation. As a result of the game, three million rubles were collected.

This amount consists of donations made by the the entire SKA team. The money will be sent to the Country for Children fund and will be used to purchase humanitarian aid for children from Kursk Region.