Canada is rightfully considered. However, despite the fact that in Russia this type of sports game appeared relatively recently, domestic teams today occupy enviable places.
in Russia
In the world of hockey to her appeared at the turn of 1870-1880... The first ho kkey teams in Russia began to appear shortly thereafter. They just started playing with a ball on the grass. Neo official birthday hockey in Russia is considered to be 1899. On this day, the first ice hockey match for the Russian hockey team took place in St. Petersburg. The match took place between the Russian "Sport" and England. Ended game with a score of 4: 4 - the opponents drew.
NS People have been trying to make hockey in Russia since 1911, but for a long time this game did not take root in the vastness of the country and in the minds of citizens. The official birthday of ice hockey in Russia is December 22, 1946. Then open games took place in many cities of the USSR.
1953 in the history of Russian hockey was marked by the entry of the Soviet national team to the international level. And already next yearthe victory over the national team of Canada took place. With a score of 7: 2, the USSR national team achieved the title of world leader in hockey.
Today, Russia maintains a leading position and is one of the five best around the world. There are over a hundred strong hockey clubs, but there are those that undoubtedly stand out. Some of the oldest and most confident are HC "Salavat Yulaev" and CSKA (Moscow).
Hockey team "Salavat Yulaev"
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TO bast developed rapidly and held its position amongother hockey teams in Russia.The first international match took place already in 1961, on December 30. The opponent of "Salavat Yulaev" was the German team.
Have in 1989 the club of the same name was created.The most memorable club scorer was V. Bykov, who scored 342 goals in fourteen seasons.
WITH Now the hockey team "Salavat Yulaev" is not in the most confident positions in the standings. However, there is great potential and every chance of success.
Hockey team CSKA
O the bottom of the oldest teams -HCCSKA (Moscow). The beginning of its history hockey the team has been taking since 1926, December 22. On that day, the players of this particular team opened the games throughout the Union.
TO the team, like the club, lots of renamed once, but the essence never changed. M Oskovsky CSKA has always been one of the strongest and most successful teams.
By tradition, CSKA has its own symbolism, like all hockey teams in Russia. Traditionally the players have a red star on their chests as a tribute to the USSR. And the horse is the mascot of the team. For a long time, the horse was the unofficial companion of all the team's games, and only recently he was given full mascot rights.
Today day, according to the standings, the CSKA (Moscow) hockey team took the most optimal positions. Taking into account all the nuances, subtleties and tricks, you can safely make predictions and bet on the success of the team. CSKA has always been able to use its advantages.
And his assistants, club managers, doctors and other service personnel. The main team itself consists of twenty or more players.
One club can own several teams, playing in different leagues, a youth team, sports schools, a stadium and a training base.
In Russia
In Russia, the activities of any sports clubs are regulated by the federal law "On physical culture and sports in the Russian Federation." Sports clubs can be created by legal entities and individuals. At the same time, the clubs can be assisted by executive authorities of any level through:
- construction, reconstruction, repair of sports facilities and other sports facilities;
- transfer for gratuitous use or long-term lease on preferential terms of premises, buildings, structures that are the property of the Russian Federation or constituent entities of the Russian Federation or municipal property;
- provision of sports equipment and equipment;
- provision of other support in the manner and in cases established by regulatory legal acts of federal executive bodies, regulatory legal acts of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation or municipal legal acts.
Sports clubs operate at their own expense and other sources not prohibited by law. In Russia, funds for the maintenance of hockey clubs usually come from two sources - the regional budget and money from private firms (primarily the owner). Starting in 2012, budget funding for Russian clubs will most likely be banned. Especially wealthy clubs can afford to build stadiums.
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The Kontinental Hockey League is the main international hockey league of the Eurasian continent, which includes teams from Russia and the CIS countries, as well as Croatia, China, Slovakia, Finland and other countries. In this article, we will tell you about the history of the teams, the names and nicknames of the KHL clubs in the Western Conference. How did the Zubrs appear in the KHL? Which KHL team is called the "Jokers"? Why is "Torpedo" called "Deer"? Why is the Croatian club called Medvescak? Why is the hockey club "Slovan" called "Eagles". You will find answers to these and many other questions in this material.
HC "Dynamo Minsk"(Dinamo Minsk) - nicknames: "Bison", "Bison", "Bulls", "Minskers", "Dynamo", "Minsk".
Minsk "Dynamo" is currently the only representative of Belarus in the Continental Hockey League. The Dynamo-Minsk club was founded in 1948, and for the first few years the team played in the amateur leagues of the BSSR. In 1980, "Dynamo" made its way to the Supreme League of the USSR, but the team could not gain a foothold there, having flown into class "A". Eight years later, in 1988, the club entered the Premier League again. In the early 1990s, due to a lack of funds, the Dynamo sports society abandoned the hockey club. In 1993, the team received financial support from individuals and passed into their hands. The club was renamed "Tivali". After the 1999/2000 season, the team was disbanded. The revival of the team took place in 2003. Dynamo received financial support from enterprises of the Minsk region, and the law enforcement agencies of Belarus acted as the founders of the club. In 2008, the team joined the newborn hockey league - the KHL. Despite the fact that rather interesting variants “Partizan” and “Minsk Bison” were proposed as a name for the team, the leadership of the FHRB decided to keep the traditional brand “Dynamo”. True, the name of the city in which it is based - Minsk, was added to the name of the team. The nicknames "Bison" and "Zubry" at "Dynamo-Minsk" have appeared since 2009, when the management decided to change the club's emblem in order not to pay for the use of the brand, the rights to which belong to the BFSO "Dynamo". Instead of the traditional letter "D", a bison appeared on the team's logo, which is sometimes confused with a bison. The fans affectionately call the team "bulls", and the nicknames "Dynamo" and "Minskers" are quite logical, and do not require additional explanations.
HC "Dynamo Riga"(Dinamo Riga) - nicknames: "Riga", "Latvians", "Riga", "Dynamo".
Club Dynamo, based in the capital of Latvia - Riga, was founded in 2008. Riga "Dynamo" is the sole representative of their country in the Continental Hockey League. The predecessor of the current “Dynamo Riga” is considered to be the club of the same name, formed back in 1946 to participate in the first championship of the USSR. The team changed its name very often, but most of its existence was called "Dynamo". In addition, under this name the club has achieved the greatest success. In 1995 the Dynamo team was disbanded and the club ceased to exist. In 2008, a new hockey league, the KHL, was formed, so it was decided to revive the club. In the same year, the team spent its debut season in the newly formed league. The nicknames "Riga" and "Riga" are associated with the city in which the team is based. The team is called "Latvians" as a representative of Latvia. The nickname "Dynamo" is derived from "Dynamo".
HC "Jokerit"(Helsingin Jokerit) - nicknames: "Jokers", "Helsinki Jokers", "Clowns", "Jesters", "Jokers".
The Jokerit Club was founded in 1967. Based in the capital of Finland, the city of Helsinki. He is currently the only representative of the "Land of a Thousand Lakes" in the KHL. In 2013, an agreement was signed to relocate the club to the Continental Hockey League, and in 2014 it was officially announced that the Jokers would join the KHL from the 2014/15 season. Before joining the KHL, Jokerit played in the Finnish SM-League, of which he became the champion six times. The nickname "Jokers" is a translation of the word "Jokerit". In addition, the club emblem depicts a winking joker (joker). Sometimes the team is called "Clowns", but this is not true. The correct nickname for "Jokerita" is "Jokers", the nicknames "Jesters" and "Balagurs" are also acceptable.
HC "Medvescak"(Klub hokeja na ledu Medveščak) - nicknames: "Bears", "Bears", "Zagreb bears", "Bears".
The Medvescak hockey team appeared in the Croatian capital city of Zagreb in 1961, where it is based today. From 1961 to 1991, the club was played in the UHL (Yugoslavian Hockey League). In 1991, due to the fact that Croatia separated from Yugoslavia, the team began to play in the XXL (Croatian Hockey League). During one season (2008/2009), the club played in the Slo-Hockey League. After a year in the Slo Hockey League, the team was admitted to the AHL (Austrian Hockey League), and played there until the end of the 2012/2013 season. In 2013, the club received the go-ahead from the KHL leadership to represent their country in the strongest league of the Eurasian continent. In the same year, “Medvescak” made his debut in the KHL with a home match against Moscow “CSKA”, in which he defeated the “army team” with a score of 7: 1. Team "Medvescak" bears the name of the eponymous district of Zagreb (Gorniy Grad - Medveschak), one of the seventeen districts of the capital of Croatia. Medvescak's emblem depicts a bared bear. The nickname of the team "Medvescak" is "Bears", which is quite logical, as well as all derivatives of this word.
SKA"(SKA) - nicknames: "Army men", "Petrograd", "Army men of St. Petersburg", "Club from the banks of the Neva", "Wallets", "Fat bags".
The hockey club "SKA" was born in 1946 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) under the name "House of Officers named after S. M. Kirov". Two years later, the club was renamed "LDO" (Leningrad House of Officers) and bore this name until the end of the 1952/1953 season. In 1953, the current "SKA" became known as "ODO" (District Officers' House). In the seasons 1957/1958 and 1958/1959 the team played under the name "SKVO" (Military District Sports Club). It was only in 1959 that the club was renamed into our usual "SKA" (Army Sports Club). From 1994 to 2006, the city in which the team is based - "SKA St. Petersburg", was added to the name, but from the 2013/2014 season the name of the club was again reduced to "SKA". In fact, the names of sports teams that are an abbreviation (SKA, CSKA, etc.) are not quoted according to the rules, but many still put SKA in quotation marks. In fact, this is not so important. With the nickname "CSKA" everything is clear - Army Sports Club. The team is sometimes called "Wallets" and "Fat bags", because "SKA" is one of the richest teams in the Continental Hockey League.
HC "Slovan"(HC Slovan Bratislava) - nicknames: "Eagles", "Eagles", "Proud Eagles", "Slovaks", "Bratislava".
Hockey club "Slovan" is based in the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava. The club was founded in 1921 under the name "CSK Bratislava". In 1939 the name of the club was changed to "Slovan". Since 1949, the club began to be called "Sokol NV", but already in 1952 it was decided to return the team to its former name - "Slovan". Before joining the KHL, the team from Bratislava played in the CHL (Czechoslovak Hockey League), and later in the SHL (Slovak Hockey League) and the Slovak Extraliga. In 2012, the club applied to join the KHL, which was approved by the league's management. Slovan began playing in the KHL in the 2012/2013 season. Slovan's emblem shows a proud eagle in profile, hence the nicknames "Eagles", "Eagles" and "Proud Eagles". The nicknames "Slovaks" and "Bratislava" refer to the country and city that the team represents.
HC "Spartak"(Spartak Moscow) - nicknames: "Red and White", "Spartachi", "Spartak", "Gladiators".
The Moscow hockey club "Spartak" was founded in 1946. Throughout its history, the club has been based in the capital of Russia. “Spartak” is one of the oldest ice hockey clubs and is one of the four Russian teams that took part in the first USSR ice hockey championship. In the Continental Hockey League, the “red-whites” have been playing since the day of her birth - since 2008. Starting from the 2011/2012 season, the team could not make it to the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup for three years in a row. In the 2013/2014 season, the “red and white” experienced serious financial difficulties. The Central Bank revoked the license from the general sponsor of Spartak - Investbank, as a result of which the hockey club was practically left without funding, and was declared bankrupt, and the team was disbanded. Unable to find sponsorship in the offseason, the club's management and the Kontinental Hockey League agreed that HC Spartak would miss the 2014/2015 season. At the same time, the leadership of the league assured the team and the fans that they would not let the great club disappear, and would render every assistance to him so that Spartak returned to the KHL in a year. The promise was kept, and in the 2015/2016 season the club again became part of the Kontinental Hockey League. The colors of Spartak are historically red and white, the nickname “red and white” is associated with the club colors. Also, the club is called "Spartacus", "Spartacus" - these nicknames are derived from "Spartacus". The nickname "Gladiators" is a reference to the gladiator-slave Spartacus, whose name the hockey club bears.
HC "Vityaz"(Vityaz ") - nicknames:" Knights "," Wars "," Heroes "," Vitki ".
The hockey team appeared in Podolsk back in the 1960s. It was called "Torpedo" and existed until 1990, after which it was disbanded. For six years, there was no professional hockey in the city. Big hockey came to the region again, when in 1996 on the basis of two cities - Podolsk and Chekhov, the sports club "Vityaz" was created. The club spent the 1996/1997 season in the championship of the Moscow region, and was based in the Venyukovo microdistrict of the city of Chekhov, which is 52 kilometers from the capital. In the 1997/1998 and 1998/1999 seasons, the team played in the RHL. In 1999, the team made its debut in the Major League, and at the end of the tournament won a ticket to the Super League. In 2000, the club changed its place of registration, moving to the city of Podolsk, Moscow region, where the construction of a new hockey palace was just completed. The debut in the elite turned out to be unsuccessful, and the team again went to the Major League, in which they spent the next four years. After the 2003/2004 season the team returned to Chekhov, and in 2005 Vityaz managed to return to the elite of Russian hockey. In 2008 the club became a member of the KHL. At the end of the 2012/2013 season, the Vityaz hockey club, after ten years in Chekhov, returned to the city of Podolsk, where it is currently based. The main reason for the next move was the insufficient capacity of the ice arena in Chekhov. All nicknames of HC "Vityaz" are directly related to the name of the team ("Voiny," Bogatyrs "). The nickname" Vitka "was invented by the fans, and is derived from" Vityaz "-" Vitya "-" Viti "-" Vitka ".
HC "Dynamo Moscow"(Dinamo Moscow) - nicknames: "Dynamo", "White-blue", "Cops", "Garbage".
Hockey club "Dynamo" was founded in 1946 in the capital of Russia, Moscow. Dynamo Moscow is the first Canadian ice hockey team in Russian history. Back in 1932, the footballers of the sports society, who played "Russian" hockey in winter, participated first in friendly and later in official ice hockey matches against the German team Fichte. “Russian” bandy, which is also called bandy, was different from ice hockey, but “Dynamo” prevailed over the German team in the first official game, defeating “Fichte” with a score of 17: 3. HC Dynamo is a team that is the owner of a unique achievement: championship titles in the USSR, MHL, CIS, European Champions Cup, Russia and KHL (Gagarin Cup). No club has ever achieved this. The Blues have been playing in the Continental Hockey League since its inception (2008). In 2010, due to financial problems of the Moscow “Dynamo”, the team's management decided to merge the two clubs HC “MVD” and HC “Dynamo” into one. Thus, on April 30, 2010, a new team of UHK "Dynamo" (United Hockey Club) appeared, which became the legal successor of the hockey club "Dynamo". In the summer of 2012, it was decided to abandon the United prefix. The patrons of the sports society "Dynamo", including the hockey team, were law enforcement agencies, in particular - the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministry of Internal Affairs). That is why the nicknames "Garbage" and "Cops" have stuck to the team. The nickname "Dynamo" is a derivative of "Dynamo". The nickname "Blue and White" is a reference to the club colors of the team.
HC Lokomotiv"(Lokomotiv) - nicknames: "Railwaymen", "Loko", "Lokomotiv", "Locomotives".
The history of the hockey club "Lokomotiv" was divided into "before" and "after" September 7, 2011, when the entire staff of the Yaroslavl club, as well as the team's coaching staff, died in a plane crash. But first things first. Hockey club "Lokomotiv" was founded in 1959, but the club was then called "YaMZ" (Yaroslavl Motor Plant). The YMZ team in the 1959/1960 season had the honor to represent the Yaroslavl region at the RSFSR championship. However, "YaMZ" was not the first club in the region. Before him, the honor of the glorious city of Yaroslavl was defended by the Lokomotiv railroad team, which was disbanded in 1951 and has nothing to do with the current Loko, as well as Spartak and the team of the Yaroslavl tire plant Khimik. Before the 1963/1964 season, YMZ was renamed Trud, and a year later the team received the name Motor. In the 1965/1966 season, the team was given a new name - "Torpedo", under which the Yaroslavl team played in the Second, in the First, and then in the Supreme League of the USSR championship. From 1992 to 1996 "Torpedo" played in the MHL (International Hockey League). In 1996, the MHL was disbanded, and “Torpedo” this season took the gold of the Russian championship. In 2000, the team from the city of Yaroslavl was taken under their wing by Russian Railways, and the club changed its name to Lokomotiv. In the 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 seasons, Lokomotiv became the Champion of Russia, and in the last Superleague championship in the history of the Superleague, the railway workers reached the final, but lost in the decisive series to Salavat Yulaev from Ufa. In 2008, Lokomotiv became part of the newborn Kontinental Hockey League, which replaced the Russian Super League. On September 7, 2011, near Yaroslavl, immediately after takeoff from the Tunoshna airport, the Yak-42D plane crashed, on which the local hockey team Lokomotiv went to the capital of Belarus, Minsk, where they were supposed to fight with the Dynamo club. There were 45 people on board: 37 passengers and 8 crew members. 43 people were killed at the crash site, the striker of the "railroad workers" Alexander Galimov died on the morning of September 12 at the Institute of Surgery. Vinshevsky. The only person who managed to survive the crash was the flight attendant Alexander Sizov. Already on September 10, 2011, the team's management decided that HC Lokomotiv would miss the 2011/2012 Kontinental Hockey League season, and play it in the VHL (Higher Hockey League) with the youth squad, and return to the KHL in the 2012/2013 season. In 2012, Lokomotiv returned to the KHL. The leadership of the League said that the “railroad” will receive a guaranteed place in the playoffs, regardless of what place the team will take at the end of the regular season. However, the club refused such privileges. In the first season after their return, Lokomotiv reached the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup, but lost in the first round series to Severstal from Cherepovets. The hockey club "Lokomotiv" has the nicknames "Loko", "Locomotes", "Railroad workers", "Locomotives", and it is quite understandable why.
HC "Severstal"(Severstal) - nicknames: "Cherepovites", "Miners", "Steelworkers", "Seva", "Metallurgists", "Industrialists".
The birthday of Cherepovets hockey is considered to be December 18, 1955, when the first match took place on the newly built hockey rink, in which the team of the city of Cherepovets fought and "Torpedo" from the Hero City of Volgograd. In 1956, the "Builder" team was founded in Cherepovets. She performed in the championship of the Volgograd region, where in the very first year she became the champion. Since 1957, "Builder" began to perform in republican competitions. Since 1959, the team began to play in the championship of the RSFSR under the name "Metallurg", and was called that way until 1994, until it finally became "Severstal". The team played in the Super League from 1992 until 2008, when the Kontinental Hockey League was formed. The Severstal team is named after the steel and mining company of the same name, PJSC Severstal, which is the main sponsor of the club. The nickname "Cherepovites" refers to the region where the team is based. The nicknames "Miners", "Industrialists", "Steelworkers", and sometimes the team is called "Metallurgists", refer to the history of the name and activities of the main sponsor of the team.
HC "Sochi"(Sochi) - nicknames: "Southerners", "Leopards", "Predators", "Cats", "Sochi".
A hockey club in the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, appeared in 2014, when the KHL leadership decided to expand the league. Earlier in the city for the 2014 Winter Olympics, a large-scale sports infrastructure was built, including the future home arena of the Sochi hockey club - the Bolshoi Ice Palace (12,000 seats). HC Sochi has been playing in the Kontinental Hockey League since the 2014/2015 season. In the very first season in the KHL, the Sochi team reached the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup, but lost to the Moscow “army team” in the first round series (4: 0). Hockey club "Sochi" is the only representative of the southern region of Russia in the KHL, therefore it is quite symbolic that the team from the city of Sochi received the same name. The nicknames "Leopards", "Cats" and "Predators" HC "Sochi" received because the symbol of the club is a leopard, the image of which is shown on the team logo.
HC "Torpedo"(Torpedo) - nicknames: "Torpedo", "Deer", "Avtozavodtsy".
The Nizhny Novgorod "Torpedo" was born in 1946 in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), and began playing in the USSR championships in the 1947/1948 season. The creation of a hockey team in Gorky is mainly associated with the popularization of "Canadian" hockey in the USSR. The All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports decided to hold the national championship in ice hockey in the 1946/1947 season. The city of Gorky, which was represented by the team of the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ), joined the number of cities participating in the tournament in the 1947/1948 season. At the beginning of 1947, the first official hockey tournament, the City Cup, was held in Gorky, in which the residents of Gorky won, and already at the end of the year, "Torpedovtsy" took part in the USSR championship. In 1961, "Torpedo" won silver medals in the national ice hockey championship. Before the team became part of the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008, Torpedo played in the MHL, RHL and Russian championships. The club did not achieve serious success in any league, however, “Torpedo” has always been famous for its fighting spirit and character, was known as a club-fighter. In 1983 and 1985, the team was awarded the "Thunderstorm of Authorities" prize, which was awarded to the team that took the most points from the championship prize-winners. The owner of the Torpedo hockey club is the GAZ Group, a Russian automotive company headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod. The hockey club logo depicts a deer, the same as the GAZ logo. Hence the nickname of HC "Torpedo" - "Deer". Another nickname for the team is "Avtozavodtsy", from the same opera.
12 best ice hockey teams in the world right now
the site presents a subjective rating of the best hockey teams in the world during a lockout.
Jyväskylä is not one of the richest teams in its league (the budget of UP is about 7 million euros) and is a typical coaching team, and its coach, Jyrki Aho, is considered one of the most promising in the country. The attack in Jyväskylä is run by the familiar Eric Perrin and Ramzi Abid, which only underlines the meaning of the word “coaching”, as well as Rich Peverly from Boston, who decided to wait out the lockout in Finland. It is worth mentioning the presence of Tuomas Tarkki, Petr Gubachek and Jyrka Vyalivaara, well-known to Russian fans. In general, this Finnish club is in many ways similar to Brunes, about which a little later.
11., AHL
Inclusion in the rating of "Oklahoma" is more an advance payment than a reflection of the real picture. After all, the season in the AHL has just begun. But not to include Barons here would be blasphemy, given the presence of the youth super three Taylor Hall - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Jordan Eberle, as well as Magnus Päjärvi, Teemu Hartikainen and a good start Justin Schultz, for whom Edmonton had to fight literally from the entire league ... Last season, Oklahoma made it to the conference finals, and this season, if the lockout drags on, it may well swing at the Calder Cup.
Current place in the championship: 9th in the conference
10., NLA (Switzerland)
The oldest and, by the way, not the richest NLA club (budget - about 12 million euros), which almost flew out in the B league last season, started the season victoriously and is unconditionally leading the championship, which sheltered the vast majority of North American NHL players during the lockout. Geneva itself limited itself to inviting Yannick Weber (Montreal) and Logan Couture (San Jose), and these moves are still fully justified.
It is worth noting that Servette has enough players who are well-known, so to speak, in narrow circles. Brian Potier, naturalized Dan Fritsch, Rico Fata, Alexander Picard, and Tobias Stefan, who are spending an enchanting season, are here. If Stefan continues in this vein, Chris McSorli, who has been working with the team for 12 years, risks reaching the final for the third time.
Current place in the championship: 1st
9., Elitserien (Sweden)
Brunes goalkeeper Johan Holmqvist. Photo: brynas.se
The reigning champion and concurrently one of the poorest (budget - about 7 million euros) Elitserien teams is second in the standings, despite the departure of the team's top scorer Jacob Silfverberg and promising Johan Larsson, Sebastian Wennström and Matthias Ekholm, who went overseas, as well as Niklas Andersen, who moved to Severstal.
But the squad did not seem to notice the losses, which must first of all be associated with the figure of Tommy Junsson - one of the most promising coaches in Sweden, the best Elitserien coach last season, who was his debut in the main role for him. You can, of course, recall some gain in the offseason (hello to our old friend Johan Harju and Cody Franson from Toronto), celebrate Johan Holmqvist, the “heir” of Zetterberg Kalle Jernkrok, who is having a wonderful season, and Elias Linholm, a rising superstar, who is already 17 years old. 10 (4 + 6) points in 14 matches, but the main creator of Brunes' success is Junsson. This team plays in such a way that, according to the impressions, the conditional “Detroit” would have problems with them.
Current place in championship: 2nd
8., KHL
The finalist of the 2012 Gagarin Cup in the offseason lost Raimo Summanen, who could start the team with just the sight of the planchette, and the "hawks" were somehow immediately lost. But lately they have gained a good pace, showing quite a digestible game and good results.
While Tomasz Zaborski is settling in, and Nikita Nikitin does not spoil the mass, the Avangard management made a knight's move, inviting Sergei Kostitsyn during the lockout, with whom, by the way, it is quite possible to link the team's recent successes. However, even without him, Avangard remains a serious force in European hockey.
Current place in the championship: 5th in the conference
7., AHL
As you know, in the offseason, Tampa exchanged farm clubs with Anaheim, so the Norfolk team, which had a record streak of 28 victories in the 2011/12 AHL regular season and eventually won the Calder Cup, almost fully moved to Syracuse, including coach John Cooper, who has won trophies with all the clubs he has worked for. Presumably, in Syracuse, this trick will also pass for him, since the charges with a nice and extremely effective game system are mostly familiar.
Of the really significant losses, it is worth noting perhaps Trevor Smith, who moved to the Pittsburgh farm club, Alexander Picard, who signed a contract with Geneva, and Yaroslav Janusz, who now plays in the KHL for Slovan. However, the replenishment is also quite good: the best goalkeeper of the SM-League is Riku Helenius, Vladislav Namestnikov, who was chosen in the first round, and Dmitry Korobov, who is well known to us. Plus Brett Connolly, who spent the entire last season in the NHL, JT Wyman, also registered with the Bolts, and a recent student JT Brown, who even managed to drive to the 2012 World Cup with the US national team.
6., KHL
The two-time KHL champion has a gorgeous squad and could well lead the standings, but, in his usual manner, he is in no hurry to score points. However, there is no doubt that this is one of the strongest clubs in Europe. Even with one lockout hostage who played only 3 matches, and a new coach, who, in general, is not entirely new.
Current place in the championship: 4th in the conference
5., KHL
In the ranking of the best teams in the world, there simply cannot be a team that has objectively the best player in the world, even if he is not yet in optimal shape. But he is clearly approaching her. I remember that at the World Championships, no one could find a council for Evgeny Malkin, they are unlikely to find it in the KHL either. Nikolay Kulemin and Sergei Gonchar, who also joined Magnitogorsk during the lockout, came to the court in an already very serious team, and Paul Maurice, apparently, is one of those coaches who draw conclusions from local and not so failures.
4., KHL
Despite the lack of teamwork among hockey players, the revived team started the season quite briskly. And the replenishment in the person of Semyon Varlamov, Dmitry Kulikov, Artem Anisimov only added touches to the game picture of Yaroslavl. coaching work, which so far seems to be just that.
Current place in the championship: 2nd in the conference.
3., KHL
The semi-finalist of the 2012 Gagarin Cup managed to do without serious personnel losses in the offseason, and in September signed a full-fledged contract with Andrei Kostitsyn, who has an ambiguous reputation, but certainly strengthened the attack of Chelyabinsk. Plus, Evgeny Kuznetsov is getting closer to his design capacity, and Valery Belousov, whose rollback is still in vogue and very effective, is not particularly sad about anything.
Current place in the championship: 1st in the conference
2., KHL
The current winner of the Gagarin Cup at least did not lose in quality of the composition in the new season and, in addition, strengthened during the lockout by Alexander Ovechkin, who in the near future should be joined by one of the best center-forwards in the world, Niklas Backstrom, who knows how to find Ovi with passes. Well, Oleg Znark's playing system, which is not conducive to entertainment, has long proved its worth at the level of the KHL, where Dynamo is now in first place in terms of points.
Current place in the championship: 1st in the conference
1., KHL
The leader of our rating is also the leader of the KHL regular championship standings in terms of lost points. Ilya Kovalchuk, Vladimir Tarasenko and Sergey Bobrovsky, plus Viktor Tikhonov once again returned to Russia, and the main, in the opinion of many, the favorite of the 2012/13 season, looks as it should look like during the lockout. the main favorite, without much difficulty dealing with most rivals at the expense of only one class of players.
Current place in the championship: 3rd in the conference