SKA are the KHL's best team of this pre-season

Today the eighth season of the KHL gets underway, a season which every competing team has been preparing for during the summer.

Out of all the league's clubs, SKA took the most amount of points - 23 with eight victories from 10 matches. Avangard also racked up 23, but they played one game more.

New SKA signing Joakim Lindstrom became the league's pre-season top scorer, as he took 15 points (4+11).