HC Budivelnyk
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HC Budivelnyk was a potential professional ice hockey team to based in Kiev, Ukraine
. It planned to join the Kontinental Hockey League
for the 2010-11 season. However on June 24, 2010 the team's management announced the postponement of the team's debut in the KHL. If it joins the KHL, it would be the first Ukrainian hockey team to compete at the elite level of European hockey since 1996, when the Russian Superleague
was formed. The team is owned and operated by the same group
as the Kiev based basketball club, Budivelnyk
.
-based PrivatBank
, the vision behind Budivelnyk was to create a team composed of the top Ukrainian hockey players in the world that would also be capable of competing at the highest European level. In similar ambitions, the group intended to promote his basketball team, BC Budivelnyk
, to the Euroleague. Operations would be run by team president Bogdan Gulyamov, president of BC Budivelnyk, and team vice president Vyacheslav Zavalniuk, the acting general manager of Sokil Kyiv and the Ukrainian national team. The team's first general manager was announced to be Oleg Kupriyanov, who had previously acted in the same role for the KHL's Metallurg Magnitogorsk
for 19 years. Assistant coach to the Czech national team Josef Jandač was originally announced helm as the team's first head coach, and was to be assisted in his role by long time NHLer Dmitri Khristich
.
The league had planned to experiment with Budivelnyk's rink size, shrinking it to NHL size standards.
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
. It planned to join the Kontinental Hockey League
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
for the 2010-11 season. However on June 24, 2010 the team's management announced the postponement of the team's debut in the KHL. If it joins the KHL, it would be the first Ukrainian hockey team to compete at the elite level of European hockey since 1996, when the Russian Superleague
Russian Superleague
The Russian Superleague , commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second best league in the world, after the National Hockey League of North America...
was formed. The team is owned and operated by the same group
Privat Group
The Privat Group, or PrivatBank Group is a international business group, based in Ukraine and grouped around the Privatbank. Privat Group controls dozens of companies of virtually every industry in Ukraine, Ghana, Russia, Romania, United States and other countries. Steel, oil&gas, chemical, energy...
as the Kiev based basketball club, Budivelnyk
BC Budivelnyk Kyiv
BC Budivelnik is a Ukrainian professional basketball club based in Kiev. The club is currently playing in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. Budivelnik is owned and operated by the same group as the Kiev based hockey club, Budivelnyk.-History:...
.
Formation
The team was founded on March 16, 2010 when the KHL announced publicly a letter of intent had been signed declaring the organization's aspirations to join the league for the following season. The product of the DnipropetrovskDnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...
-based PrivatBank
Privatbank
PrivatBank is the largest commercial bank in Ukraine, in terms of the number of clients, assets value, loan portfolio and taxes paid to the national budget. Unlike most other large Ukrainian banks, PrivatBank is not based in Kiev, the capital city, but is headquartered in Dnipropetrovsk, a smaller...
, the vision behind Budivelnyk was to create a team composed of the top Ukrainian hockey players in the world that would also be capable of competing at the highest European level. In similar ambitions, the group intended to promote his basketball team, BC Budivelnyk
BC Budivelnyk Kyiv
BC Budivelnik is a Ukrainian professional basketball club based in Kiev. The club is currently playing in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. Budivelnik is owned and operated by the same group as the Kiev based hockey club, Budivelnyk.-History:...
, to the Euroleague. Operations would be run by team president Bogdan Gulyamov, president of BC Budivelnyk, and team vice president Vyacheslav Zavalniuk, the acting general manager of Sokil Kyiv and the Ukrainian national team. The team's first general manager was announced to be Oleg Kupriyanov, who had previously acted in the same role for the KHL's Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League...
for 19 years. Assistant coach to the Czech national team Josef Jandač was originally announced helm as the team's first head coach, and was to be assisted in his role by long time NHLer Dmitri Khristich
Dmitri Khristich
Dmytro Anatoliiovych "Dmitri" Khristich is a former professional ice hockey player. The Ukrainian played 811 games in the NHL in his career, for the Washington Capitals, Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs...
.
The league had planned to experiment with Budivelnyk's rink size, shrinking it to NHL size standards.
See also
- BC Budivelnyk
- Potential Kontinental Hockey League expansionPotential Kontinental Hockey League expansionThe potential of including addition franchises to the Kontinental Hockey League has been an ongoing topic since the league's inception. It has been reported that the league seeks to expand to 30 teams.-Proposed pan-European league:...
- Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey LeagueUkrainians in the Kontinental Hockey LeagueThis is a List of Ukrainians who have played at least one game in the Kontinental Hockey League .Ukrainians constitute the 7th most numerous nationality within the league. During the 2009-10 KHL season, 26 Ukrainian players participated in the competition, the most to date...