HC Lev Poprad

The HC Lev Poprad was a 2010 established hockey club based in the Slovak town of Poprad. The team played in the 2011/12 season in the Kontinental Hockey League. The home games were played in the 4464 -seat Zimný Štadión Poprad instead. The stadium shared the club with the HK Poprad of the Slovak Extraliga, which also served as a farm team of HC Lev. The Tatranskí Vlci (English Tatra Wolves ) from the Development League MHL formed the junior team of HC Lev and wore their home games in Ves from.

History

After negotiations for the accession in the Continental Hockey League between the Czech Ice Hockey Association and the HC Lev Hradec Králové had failed from the Czech Extraliga, the management of the club, the team decided to Poprad, Slovakia to resettle where it starting from the season 2010 / 11 HC Lev Poprad under the name should participate in the KHL. The team was divided for its inaugural season in the Bobrow Diwision. On July 23, 2010, the Association of Pro- Hokej, which represents the interests of the clubs in the Slovak Extraliga, willingness to participate in the club at the KHL, the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation should SZLH on Monday, July 26 to announce his decision. The decision was postponed to August 18 due to formal questions, which the provisional non-inclusion of gaming operations by the HC Lev had the effect, as the KHL announced on 28 July 2010 that the HC Lev due to lack of permits by the SZLH not for will match the operation of the 2010/11 season allowed. Then all players of HC Lev Poprad were released from their contracts, as they only had to apply for the participation in the KHL.

In May 2011, the club was finally taken with the permission of the Slovak Association but in the KHL and took the 2011/12 season on the game mode. Parallel was established with the Tatranskí Vlci a junior team for the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja league. As head coach of HC Lev Poprad of the Czech Radim Rulík was committed. His first KHL Game of the HC Lev Poprad on 12 September 2011, when they lost to the Russian representatives HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk in their own stadium with 2:4. The first point scored the team away in the 3:4 defeat after penalty shootout at Atlant Mytischtschi on 21 September 2011. The first victory of the franchise history finally gained 26 September 2011 in an away game against Dinamo Riga in Latvia. In his first and only season of the KHL HC Lev finally finished in the main round of the sixth and last place thus the Bobrow Diwision, bringing the KHL play-offs were clearly missed. Of the 54 games of HC Lev won only 16 Despite the small sporting success of HC Lev Poprad had an average attendance of over 4,000 visitors per game and an occupancy rate of over 90 percent.

After the Czech Ice Hockey Association gave his permission, the HC Lev was eventually relocated in early 2012 to Prague, where he has since competes under the name HC Lev Prague in the KHL. The resettlement was also the end for the MHL team Tatranskí Vlci result.

However, the resettlement of HC Lev was not only a sporting loss for the region around Poprad, but also economic. In September 2012, the debts of the HC Lev Poprad 1,939,472.31 euros, respectively, where the club had only 140,000 euros equity capital. Among the creditors are not only local businesses, but also several players and coaches, who demanded not yet been paid salary demands were.

Season statistics

Abbreviations: SP = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime, OTN = Losses after Overtime, L = Losses, T = Goals Scored, GT = Goals against, Pts = Points

Known player

2011–12 KHL season Farmteam 2010–11 KHL season Amur Khabarovsk
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