HC Dinamo Minsk
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Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
team based in Minsk
Minsk
- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
, Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
. They are members of the Tarasov Division of 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....
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Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs (Gagarin Cup
Gagarin Cup
The Gagarin Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League playoffs, and is named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space...
) only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season.
Jaroslav Obšut
Jaroslav Obšut
Jaroslav Obšut is a Slovak professional ice hockey player currently playing for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
is the current captain
Captain (ice hockey)
In ice hockey, each team can designate an official captain for each game. The player serving as captain during the game wears a "C" on his or her jersey...
of the team, with his alternates being Geoff Platt
Geoff Platt
Geoff Platt is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently contracted to HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Career :...
and Andrei Mikhalev
Andrei Mikhalev
Andrei Aleksandrovich Mikhalev is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for Dynamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. Mikhalev began his professional career in 1995 and played five season with Yunost Minsk...
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History
The club was formed in 1976, played 5 seasons in the Soviet Top Ice Hockey League, best result was the 10th place in 1989/90 season. Dinamo-Minsk was renamed as Tivali MinskTivali Minsk
Tivali Minsk is an ice hockey club based in Minsk, Belarus.- History :Formed in 1946, this Minsk based hockey team went through several identity changes all the while playing amongst several hockey leagues in Europe. It went bankrupt in 2001...
in 1993 and four times became a champion of the Belarusian Championship in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 2000. Tivali was disbanded in 2000. Dinamo-Minsk re-emerged in 2003 and won champion title and Belarus Cup twice.
On March, 26, 2008, the KHL
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....
confirmed the Belarusian club's inclusion in the Bobrov Division. Dinamo-Minsk started to play on the ice of Minsk Palace of sports
Palace of Sports
The Kiev Palace of Sports is situated in the center of Kiev, Ukraine, on the right bank of the Dnieper River.It was built in 1960, under the leadership of Mykhailo Hrechyna and Aleksei Zavarov, as a major indoor sports arena....
and was relocated to the newly build Minsk-Arena
Minsk-Arena
Minsk-Arena is a multi-use indoor arena in Minsk, Belarus. The Minsk-Arena Complex is unique in its complexity and functionality not only in Belarus but also in Europe...
in December 2009. The first head coach of the Belarusian club was Paul Gardner, who was dismissed until the championship had begun. The next one became Jim Hughes, a protege of previous Belarus national team head coach Curt Fraser
Curt Fraser
Curtis Martin Fraser is a former ice hockey player of dual American and Canadian citizenship...
. But after the first twelve games the team came down next to the last place and soon Jim Hughes was dismissed. New vacancy was taken by Russian specialist Vasili Spiridonov whose efforts were not enough to raise Dinamo-Minsk from the bottom of the tournament table. The club became the 22nd out of 24 teams.
The next season team began under command of Glen Hanlon
Glen Hanlon
Glen A. Hanlon is a retired Canadian National Hockey League goaltender and a former head coach of the Washington Capitals of the NHL, Dynamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League , and the Belarusian national ice hockey team. He was a goaltender scout for the Vancouver Canucks...
, who brought the Belarus national team to the sixth place at WC2006
2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
The 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships was the 70th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams representing 45 countries participated in four levels of competition. The competition also served as qualifications for the 2007 competition...
in Riga. The team roster was fulfilled with world famous players Ville Peltonen
Ville Peltonen
Ville Peltonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the HIFK of the SM-liiga . He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks as their third round pick, 58th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft....
and Ossi Väänänen
Ossi Väänänen
Ossi Väänänen is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for Jokerit of the Finnish SM-liiga, with whom he was won two silver medals as runner-up for the Kanada-malja in 2000 and 2005...
, also one of best the Belarus goalkeepers Andrei Mezin
Andrei Mezin
Andrei Anatolyevich Mezin is a Belarusian goaltender currently playing for Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.- Interntaional :Mezin gained international attention in 2002 as a member of the Belarus national men's ice hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics...
was employed by HC Dinamo-Minsk. Season of 2009/2010 was alike to the previous. Team hadn't showed good result and Glen Hanlon
Glen Hanlon
Glen A. Hanlon is a retired Canadian National Hockey League goaltender and a former head coach of the Washington Capitals of the NHL, Dynamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League , and the Belarusian national ice hockey team. He was a goaltender scout for the Vancouver Canucks...
was substituted by head coach of HK Homiel. Dinamo-Minsk finished at the 17th spot in the KHL
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....
, while missing the play-offs, but still managed to win Spengler Cup
Spengler Cup
The Spengler Cup is an annual ice hockey tournament held in Davos, Switzerland. First held in 1923, the Spengler Cup is often cited as the oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world. The event is hosted by the Swiss team HC Davos and played each year in Davos, Switzerland, between...
under the guidance of Alexander Andrievsky.
Season 2010/2011 became the best season in KHL history of Dinamo-Minsk. The new head coach of the team became Marek Sýkora. Pan Sýkora is widely thought as one of the best coaches of 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....
. He brought 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...
to the final games in 2005 and a rookie of the KHL Avtomobilist
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Avtomobilist is a professional ice hockey team based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. They replaced Khimik Voskresensk in the Kontinental Hockey League in 2009.-External links:...
to KHL play-offs in 2010. Dinamo-Minsk under his command managed not only to get into the play-offs, but stayed in one step from the Western Conference semi-finals when Lokomotiv
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....
prevailed in the decisive game seven of the series.
Also Dinamo-Minsk was named the most attended club in the KHL
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....
after the 2010-2011 season.
The new season of Dinamo-Minsk was to have begun on September, 8, 2011 versus Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....
. However, on September 7, 2011, a plane carrying the Lokomotiv team to the game in Minsk crashed shortly after takeoff
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
, killing all of the team's roster. Four days later, a memorial ceremony took place at the Minsk-Arena
Minsk-Arena
Minsk-Arena is a multi-use indoor arena in Minsk, Belarus. The Minsk-Arena Complex is unique in its complexity and functionality not only in Belarus but also in Europe...
, with all Minsk players paying tributes to each one of the victims.
Champions
- Belarusian ExtraligaBelarusian ExtraligaThe Belarusian Extraleague , officially formed in 2006, is the top ice hockey league in Belarus...
Championship (1): 2007 - Belarus Cup (2): 2005, 2006
- Spengler CupSpengler CupThe Spengler Cup is an annual ice hockey tournament held in Davos, Switzerland. First held in 1923, the Spengler Cup is often cited as the oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world. The event is hosted by the Swiss team HC Davos and played each year in Davos, Switzerland, between...
(1): 20092009 Spengler CupThe 2009 Spengler Cup was held, as it always was, in Davos, Switzerland between 26 and 31 December, 2009. All matches were played at host HC Davos's home Vaillant Arena...
Franchise scoring leaders (KHL)
These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history while being a KHL club. Figures are updated after each completed KHL regular season.Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; bold = current Dinamo player
Points
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | P/G |
 Geoff PlattGeoff Platt Geoff Platt is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently contracted to HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Career :... |
LW | 123 | 46 | 36 | 82 | 0.67 |
 Andrei MikhalevAndrei Mikhalev Andrei Aleksandrovich Mikhalev is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for Dynamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. Mikhalev began his professional career in 1995 and played five season with Yunost Minsk... |
C/LW | 162 | 30 | 22 | 52 | 0.32 |
 Hannes HyvönenHannes Hyvönen Hannes Ossian Hyvönen is a Finnish professional ice hockey right wing, currently playing for Färjestads BK of the Elitserien .- Playing career :... |
RW | 57 | 28 | 19 | 47 | 0.82 |
| Sergei Demagin Sergei Demagin Sergei Aleksandrovich Demagin is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. He previously played for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. During the 2005–06 season he led the Belarus second league with 61 points in 39 games... |
LW | 89 | 27 | 20 | 47 | 0.53 |
| Alexander Kulakov |
RW | 130 | 20 | 27 | 47 | 0.36 |
| Dmitry Meleshko Dmitry Meleshko Dmitry Meleshko is a Belarussian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-References:... |
RW | 119 | 22 | 24 | 46 | 0.39 |
| Yaroslav Chupris |
LW | 115 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 0.31 |
 Konstantin GlazachevKonstantin Glazachev Konstantin Glazachev is a Russian professional ice hockey forward. he currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.... |
LW | 52 | 12 | 23 | 35 | 0.67 |
| Andrei Antonov Andrei Antonov Andrei Igorevich Antonov is a Belarusian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:... |
D | 116 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 0.28 |
 Peter PodhradskýPeter Podhradský Peter Podhradský is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays in the Kontinental Hockey League for HC Dinamo Minsk.- Playing career :... |
D | 48 | 8 | 22 | 30 | 0.63 |
Goals
| Player | Pos | G |
| Geoff Platt Geoff Platt Geoff Platt is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently contracted to HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Career :... |
LW | 46 |
| Andrei Mikhalev Andrei Mikhalev Andrei Aleksandrovich Mikhalev is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for Dynamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. Mikhalev began his professional career in 1995 and played five season with Yunost Minsk... |
C/LW | 30 |
| Hannes Hyvönen Hannes Hyvönen Hannes Ossian Hyvönen is a Finnish professional ice hockey right wing, currently playing for Färjestads BK of the Elitserien .- Playing career :... |
RW | 28 |
| Sergei Demagin Sergei Demagin Sergei Aleksandrovich Demagin is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. He previously played for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. During the 2005–06 season he led the Belarus second league with 61 points in 39 games... |
LW | 27 |
| Dmitry Meleshko Dmitry Meleshko Dmitry Meleshko is a Belarussian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-References:... |
RW | 22 |
| Alexander Kulakov |
RW | 20 |
 Serhiy Varlamov |
C | 15 |
| Jozef Stümpel Jozef Stümpel Jozef Stümpel is a Slovak professional ice hockey centre currently playing for HC Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:... |
C | 12 |
| Konstantin Glazachev Konstantin Glazachev Konstantin Glazachev is a Russian professional ice hockey forward. he currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.... |
LW | 12 |
| Yaroslav Chupris |
LW | 12 |
Assists
| Player | Pos | A |
| Geoff Platt Geoff Platt Geoff Platt is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently contracted to HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Career :... |
LW | 36 |
| Alexander Kulakov |
RW | 27 |
| Andrei Antonov Andrei Antonov Andrei Igorevich Antonov is a Belarusian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:... |
D | 25 |
| Yaroslav Chupris |
LW | 24 |
| Dmitry Meleshko Dmitry Meleshko Dmitry Meleshko is a Belarussian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-References:... |
RW | 24 |
| Konstantin Glazachev Konstantin Glazachev Konstantin Glazachev is a Russian professional ice hockey forward. he currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.... |
LW | 23 |
| Peter Podhradský Peter Podhradský Peter Podhradský is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays in the Kontinental Hockey League for HC Dinamo Minsk.- Playing career :... |
D | 22 |
| Andrei Mikhalev Andrei Mikhalev Andrei Aleksandrovich Mikhalev is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for Dynamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. Mikhalev began his professional career in 1995 and played five season with Yunost Minsk... |
C/LW | 22 |
| Ville Peltonen Ville Peltonen Ville Peltonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the HIFK of the SM-liiga . He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks as their third round pick, 58th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.... |
RW | 20 |
| Sergei Demagin Sergei Demagin Sergei Aleksandrovich Demagin is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. He previously played for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. During the 2005–06 season he led the Belarus second league with 61 points in 39 games... |
LW | 20 |
Regular season
- Most goals in a season: Geoff PlattGeoff PlattGeoff Platt is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently contracted to HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Career :...
, 26 (2009-10) - Most assists in a season: Konstantin GlazachevKonstantin GlazachevKonstantin Glazachev is a Russian professional ice hockey forward. he currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, 23 (2010-11) - Most points in a season: Geoff PlattGeoff PlattGeoff Platt is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently contracted to HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Career :...
, 44 (2009-10) - Most penalty minutes in a season: Duvie WestcottDuvie WestcottDuvie Westcott is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for the Kloten Flyers of the Swiss NLA. Westcott played his whole National Hockey League career with the Columbus Blue Jackets before signing with Dinamo Riga of the KHL.-Playing career:Westcott was signed by Columbus as...
, 146 (2009-10) - Most points in a season, defenseman: Peter PodhradskýPeter PodhradskýPeter Podhradský is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays in the Kontinental Hockey League for HC Dinamo Minsk.- Playing career :...
, 30 (2010-11)
Playoffs
- Most goals in a playoff season: Geoff PlattGeoff PlattGeoff Platt is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently contracted to HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Career :...
, 4 (2010-11) - Most assists in a playoff season: Peter PodhradskýPeter PodhradskýPeter Podhradský is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays in the Kontinental Hockey League for HC Dinamo Minsk.- Playing career :...
, 6 (2010-11) - Most points in a playoff season: Peter PodhradskýPeter PodhradskýPeter Podhradský is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays in the Kontinental Hockey League for HC Dinamo Minsk.- Playing career :...
, 8 (2010-11) - Most penalty minutes in a playoff season: Jordan HenryJordan HenryJordan Henry is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing in the Calgary Flames organization of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, 33 (2010-11) - Most points in a playoff season, defenseman: Peter PodhradskýPeter PodhradskýPeter Podhradský is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays in the Kontinental Hockey League for HC Dinamo Minsk.- Playing career :...
, 8 (2010–11)
Hat-tricks
1. Dmitry MeleshkoDmitry Meleshko
Dmitry Meleshko is a Belarussian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-References:...
, 11-21-2010 at 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...
- needed 43.26 to complete the feat
2. Zbyněk Irgl
Zbynek Irgl
Zbyněk Irgl is a Czech professional ice hockey player.Irgl was selected 197th overall by the Nashville Predators in round 6 of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. The Predators had received the pick from the St. Louis Blues in a trade for Blair Atcheynum...
, 11-22-2011 at Barys Astana
Barys Astana
Hockey Club Barys is a professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. They compete in the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:...
- needed 31.48 to complete the feat
Season-by-season KHL record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, SOW = Shootout Wins, SOL = Shootout Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against| Season | GP | W | OTW | SOW | SOL | OTL | L | Pts | GF | GA | Finish | Playoffs |
| 2008–09 2008–09 KHL season The 2008–09 KHL season was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on February 26, 2009... |
56 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 49 | 124 | 197 | 22nd place | Did not qualify |
| 2009–10 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... |
56 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 65 | 139 | 164 | 6th, Bobrov Division | Did not qualify |
| 2010–11 | 54 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 74 | 150 | 155 | 4th, Tarasov Division | Lost in Western Conference Quarterfinals, 3-4 (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator.... ) |