HK Liepājas Metalurgs

  • Latvian Champion 2000, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
  • Master of EEHL 2002

The HK Liepaja Metalurgs is the Hockey Department Founded in 1998, the SK Metalurgs Liepaja Liepaja ( Libau ) in Latvia, which discharges their home games in the Olimpiskā Ledus hall.

History

As of 1999, the club took part in the Latvian Hockey League and was able to celebrate the Latvian Championship seven times. Parallel to the game operating in the Latvian League participated in the first team of the club between 1998 and 2004 and on the East European Hockey League. In the season 2001/ 02 the HK Liepaja Metalurgs reached the championship of the EEHL than one HK Riga 2000 defeated in the playoff finals in five games 3-2. After the dissolution of EEHL 2004, the two Latvian clubs were included in the open Belarusian Championship.

Due to the closure of the Belarusian league Liepaja Metalurgs belonged between 2006 and 2008 exclusively for the Samsung premjerlīga as the highest Latvian league is, since 2006, at. Since the summer of 2008 from the closed Belarusian league championship was again an open, the club again takes part in this. The second team of the club will continue to make this play in the Latvian Hockey League, while the first team is set for the playoffs the Latvian championship. The first team of HK Liepaja Metalurgs was temporarily coached by Vladimir Golubowitsch, who was also head coach of the Ukrainian national team. In November 2012, the club came after the insolvency of the main sponsor Metalurgs Liepaja into financial problems and pulled his teams back before the 2013/14 season from the Extraliga and the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja League B. As a consequence, the game operation in the Latvian Hockey League was set so that the club in the 2013/14 season has only junior teams in the game mode.

Achievements

  • Latvian champion: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
  • Vice- champion of the Latvian league in 2001 and 2006
  • Master of EEHL 2002
  • Latvian Cup winners in 2007 and 2008

Placements

Well-known former players

  • Arvīds Rekis
  • Edgars Masaļskis
  • Jēkabs Redlihs
  • Krišjānis Redlihs
  • Vladimirs Mamonovs
Ice hockey Ukraine men's national ice hockey team IIHF Continental Cup 1999 IIHF Continental Cup 2000 IIHF Continental Cup 2001 IIHF Continental Cup 2002 IIHF Continental Cup 2003 IIHF Continental Cup 2004 IIHF Continental Cup 2009 Sokil Kyiv Kapitan Stupino HK Neman Grodno HK Mogilev Khimik-SKA Novopolotsk HK Vitebsk HK Riga (1997) HK Prizma Riga
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