Metallurg Magnitogorsk is a professional 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 Magnitogorsk

Magnitogorsk

Magnitogorsk is a mining and industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River. Population: 418,545 ;...

, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. They are members of the Kharlamov 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....

 (KHL). They also competed in the Champions Hockey League

Champions Hockey League

The Champions Hockey League was a short-lived ice hockey league which was launched in 2008 by the International Ice Hockey Federation and only played in the 2008–09 season. Its creation coincided with the IIHF's 100th anniversary and replaced the IIHF European Champions Cup, the former competition...

 (CHL), losing the 2008-09 season

2008–09 Champions Hockey League

-Group stage:The draw for the group stage took place on Friday, 25 April 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. The twelve teams were drawn into groups of three. Each group played a double round-robin. If the games were decided after 60 minutes, the winner was awarded 3 points and the loser 0 points...

 championship round to ZSC Lions

ZSC Lions

The Zürcher Schlittschuh Club Lions are a professional ice hockey team located in Zürich, Switzerland, playing in the National League A. The home arena, the 10,700 seat Hallenstadion, is in the Zürich district of Oerlikon...

 of the Swiss National League A.

Victoria Cup

On October 1, 2008 Metallurg Magnitogorsk played against NHL's New York Rangers

New York Rangers

The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...

 in the inaugural Victoria Cup

Victoria Cup

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 at the PostFinance Arena in Berne with an attendance of 13,794. Metallurg Magnitogorsk led most of the game, 3-0 at one point, but ultimately lost 4-3 by the Rangers' Ryan Callahan

Ryan Callahan

Ryan Callahan is an American ice hockey forward and captain of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:Callahan played one year of high school hockey for Hilton High School...

 breakaway goal with 20 seconds remaining in the game. Denis Platonov, Vladimir Malenkikh, and Nikolai Zavarukhin scored for Metallurg, and Dan Fritsche

Dan Fritsche

Dan Fritsche is an American professional ice hockey player currently playing for Genève-Servette HC of the Swiss National League A.-Playing career:...

 scored and Chris Drury

Chris Drury

Christopher Drury is an American retired professional ice hockey player. Drury is a Hobey Baker Award-winner with Boston University, a Calder Trophy winner with the Colorado Avalanche, a Stanley Cup champion with the Avalanche, a two-time Olympic silver medalist with the United States, and a...

 scored twice for the Rangers. As a sign of respect, Russian Dimitri Kalinin and Ukrainian Nikolai Zherdev

Nikolai Zherdev

Mykola Olehovych "Nikolay" Zherdev is a Ukrainian-Russian professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Russian Kontinental Hockey League...

 accepted the Victoria Cup trophy on the behalf of the New York Rangershttp://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/new-york-rangers-victorious.html. American analysts and broadcasters reported a rumor that team management was to reward all 22 the Metallurg Magnitogorsk players $100,000 USD for victory.

Champions

• Russian Super League Championship (3): 1999, 2001, 2007
• IIHF European Champions Cup
  IIHF European Champions Cup
  The IIHF European Champions Cup was an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation , which took place during a long weekend in early January. The winner was considered the official club champion of Europe by the IIHF...
  
  (1): 2008
• Tampere Cup
  Tampere Cup
  Tampere Cup is an annual international ice hockey tournament held in Tampere, Finland.Metallurg Magnitogorsk has won the tournament three times and Djurgården, Dynamo Moscow, Tappara and Espoo Blues two times each....
  
  (3): 2005, 2006, 2008
• 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...
  
  (1): 2005
• European Hockey League (2): 1999, 2000
• IIHF Super Cup
  IIHF Super Cup
  The IIHF Super Cup was an ice hockey event played between each winner of the two main European club tournaments of the year.It was played between the champion of the European Hockey League against the champion of the IIHF European Cup in 1997...
  
  (1): 2000
• Pervaya Liga
  Pervaya Liga
  The Russian Hockey League , until 2010 known as the First League , during the 2010–11 season known as the Championship of Russia between the club teams of regions , is an ice hockey league in Russia. It is a feeder league to the Kontinental Hockey League and the Vysshaya Khokkeynaya Liga. Majority...
  
   Championship (1): 1981

Runners-up

• Champions Hockey League
  Champions Hockey League
  The Champions Hockey League was a short-lived ice hockey league which was launched in 2008 by the International Ice Hockey Federation and only played in the 2008–09 season. Its creation coincided with the IIHF's 100th anniversary and replaced the IIHF European Champions Cup, the former competition...
  
  (1): 2009
• Victoria Cup
  Victoria Cup
  The Victoria Cup is the premier middle distance harness race of Australia. Conducted over 2575m, rather than the staying distance of over 3000m or the sprint distance of under 2000m, the Victoria Cup was run at the Melbourne Showgrounds up until 1975, when it was shifted to Moonee Valley...
  
  (1): 2008
• Russian Super League Championship (3): 1996, 1998, 2004

NHL Alumni

  Alexei Kaigorodov

Alexei Kaigorodov

Alexei Pavlovich Kaigorodov is a Russian professional ice hockey player playing with Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...

 (2001-07),   Evgeni Malkin

Evgeni Malkin

Evgeni "Geno" Vladimirovich Malkin is a Russian professional ice hockey center and alternate captain for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League ....

 (2003-06),   Nikolai Kulemin

Nikolai Kulemin

Nikolai Vladimirovich Kulemin is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League...

(2005-08)

External links

Metallurg Magnitogorsk official website

• "Metallurg Magnitogorsk Magnificent in Run to RSL Gold" at NHL.com. Retrieved 04-25-07.