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SKA Saint Petersburg’s KHL playoff promo is all sorts of intense (Video)

SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube
SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube

The KHL’s 2017 Gagarin Cup playoffs began on Tuesday with regular season champions SKA St. Petersburg taking Game 1 of their series with Vityaz by a 3-1 score.

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In preparation for the team’s attempt to win its second title in three seasons, SKA released a hype video on Wednesday ahead of Game 1, and boy, is there a lot going on.

That video had everything, from Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk, to our very happy friend above, to an ode to their military history, to this guy, who’s probably been watching that Colorado Avalanche/Imagine Dragons mash-up from 2014 a few too many times:

SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube
SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube

There was also the hockey glove-wearing rocker who has no need for a pick:

SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube
SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube

Sometimes when you need to relax after a game you pick up your drum sticks and smash the hell out of your 16 cymbals:

SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube
SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube

What signals an intimidating presence to opponents more than bullets hitting the floor?

SKA St. Petersburg / YouTube
SKA St. Petersburg / YouTube

Finally, we go to an August clip of Datsyuk firing off a cannon during a ceremony.

SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube
SKA Saint Petersburg / YouTube

This one was certainly ranks on par with last year’s promo, which featured lots of things on fire, like drum sticks, boxing gloves, cymbals and their mascot (for real), as well as sledgehammers, MMA fighting and a dude giving the camera the finger. Really.

We’re already eagerly awaiting next season’s video.

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