Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

• Russian Champion 1997, 2002, 2003
• Russian Vice- Champion 2008
• KHL vice- champion 2009

The HK Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (Russian Хоккейный Клуб Локомотив Ярославль / Chokkejnyj club Lokomotiw Yaroslavl ) is an ice hockey club established in 1959 from the Russian city of Yaroslavl. The club belongs since 2012 back in the Kontinental Hockey League. After a plane crash in September 2011, in which nearly the entire crew was killed, a new team has been set up in the play mode of Wysschaja Hockey League. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is owned by the Russian railway company Rossijskije schelesnyje dorogi.

The club colors of the club, in the comprehensive 9070 spectators and was completed in 2001, Arena is home to 2000 are red, white and blue. In his over 50 - year history of the club was founded as Jamz Yaroslavl celebrated in the years 1997, 2002 and 2003, a total of three Russian championship. Furthermore, there is a Russian runner-up title in 2008 and a KHL vice titles from 2009 to book.

• 3.1 Wysschaja League (1987-1992)
• 3.2 International Hockey League (1992-1996)
• 3.3 Super League ( 1996-2008 )
• 3.4 Continental Hockey League ( 2008-2011, since 2012 )

History

In Yaroslavl teams were initially as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (1949-1955), Spartak Yaroslavl ( 1955-56 ) and Chimik Yaroslavl ( 1956-57 ) is active, all of which participated in the regional championship of the Russian SFSR. In 1959, the team Jamz Yaroslavl founded from the local engine plant Jamz out, the first at the regional division of the Soviet Union, the Klass B, participated. In the following years, the team established within the division before it was renamed in 1963 in Trud Yaroslavl and 1964 in Yaroslavl motor.

In the second and third division (1965-1987)

1965 received the association again a new name that he should wear until 2000 - Torpedo Yaroslavl. In addition, the construction of an open ice stadium, which was completed during the 1966/67 season and later Sports Palace Awtodisel was started. Torpedo won the championship in 1967 his group of Klass B and thus realized the promotion to the third division, the Klass A, 3 group. Two years later, Torpedo won the West Season of Klass A, 2nd group, but could not ascend to this due to a reduction of the first group of Klass A. By a further reform leagues 1970 Torpedo was placed in the third division, the then Wtoraja League said. In the following years the team ended mostly middle places in this division before winning the West Season of Wtoraja League 1983 promotion to the second-class Perwaja league. In the first season of this game class torpedo came with the eighth equal to the establishment on this level leagues. In 1987, the club reached the first place in the West Season after the main round and qualified for the promotion tournament. This included torpedo from the first place and rose for the first time in the top flight of the Soviet Union, the former Wysschaja league.

Establishment in the highest league (1987-1997)

Between the rise in 1987 and the most recent season of the Soviet Cup Torpedo occupied mostly behind courts, except in 1990 when torpedo finished in seventh place among 16 participants in the Champions round. Known Torpedo player this time were Alexander Sybin, Vyacheslav Uwajew, Dmitri Yushkevich, Andrei Zhukov, Igor Maslennikov, Sergei Zaitsev, Vitaly Karamnow. In the 1990/91 season success experienced by a good ranking in the pre-and Meisterrunde each occupied as a torpedo seventh.

In 1992, the International Hockey League was founded and incorporated in this torpedo. Torpedo reached in the next four years each the playoffs, where in 1995 it won the first round Season West succeeded. In the playoffs, the team failed in each case either the eighth or in the quarterfinals.

In 1996, the International Hockey League was transferred to the Russian ice hockey championship, which was later renamed to Super League. The first season of the reformed league was dominated by Torpedo Yaroslavl, Ak Bars Kazan and the HK Lada Togliatti. These three teams finished in the top three of the final round and thus were favored for the playoffs. In these Torpedo defeated first Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 2-0 in the quarterfinals HK Dynamo Moscow 2-0 in the semifinals Salavat Yulaev Ufa 2-0 and qualified for the play-off final against Lada Togliatti. The final series won torpedo without defeat 3-0 against Lada, reaching its greatest success in the club's history, the Russian champion. A large part of this success were the striker Andrei Skabelka, Alexei Gorshkov, Aleksandrs Ņiživijs and Vitaly Lytwynenko and goalkeeper Yegor Podomazki, which reached three shutouts and a Gegentorschnitt of 0.98 in nine playoff games.

Goalkeeper Oleg Bratasch, Yegor Podomazki

Defender: Alexei Amelin, Mikhail Donika, Ilya Gorokhov, Uladzimir Kopaz, Dmitri Krassotkin, Oleg Polkovnikov, Sergei Zhukov, Andrei Sobolev, Alexei Vasiliev

Attacker: Vladimir Antipov, Alexander Ardaschew, Sergei Gorbachev, Alexei Gorshkov, Anatoly Koweschnikow, Roman Ljaschenko, Vitaly Lytwynenko, Aleksandrs Ņiživijs, Vladimir Samylin, Denis Schwidki, Andrei Skabelka, Alexei Trasseuch, Sergei Tschernjawski, Dmitri Wlassenkow

Coaching staff: Pyotr Vorobyov, Nikolai Kazakov

Time as a top team (1997-2001)

Due to the league title in 1997, Torpedo qualified for the European Hockey League in 1997/98, the team with five wins from six matches where D won the group and asserted itself in the quarterfinals against the HK Lada Togliatti. In the semifinals, which was held as part of the Final Four, Torpedo succumbed to the HD Dynamo Moscow 0:1. In the Russian Cup Season 1997/98 Torpedo won the first place of the season and was third in the West finals, with no playoffs were held. Instead, a cup competition was played in the torpedo reached the semifinals. A year later, the team erected after a fifth place in the main round the playoff semi-finals, where they defeated the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk 1:3 and finished the season in third place.

In 1998, Torpedo part in the IIHF Continental Cup and qualified automatically as host nation of the semi - group P for this. With two wins and one defeat Torpedo took second place in the group, while the group winners, the HK Avangard Omsk, moved into the finals. In the Russian Cup Torpedo Yaroslavl belonged more to the top teams and reached 199 in 2000, and the fourth to fifth place in the championship. In 2000 the club was also renamed locomotive, as the Russian Railways Rossijskije schelesnyje dorogi was principal owner of the club.

Master title in 2002

Before the season 2001/ 02 has been committed, a non-Russian coach with the Czechs Vladimír Vůjtek the first time. This rebuilt the team and committed performers as Andrei Kovalenko Jan Peterek, Ivan Tkachenko, Wadym Schachrajtschuk, Alexander Guskov and in the course of the season Martin Strbak. He also expanded the team to young players like Alexander Suglobow, Denis and Artem Kryukov Grebeschkow. The thus modified team was successful and quickly dominated the main round of the Russian Championship with 37 wins at 6 draws and 8 losses. In the playoffs, they sat down in the quarterfinals 3-0 Krylia Sovetov Moscow, in the semi-final 3-0 against Metallurg Magnitogorsk and in the final 3-0 against Ak Bars Kazan through and won the second league title in club history. In the playoffs, the team reach nine wins in a row, in which the team received only 9 goals and even scored 28 goals. Consequently received with coach Vladimír Vůjtek striker Andrei Kovalenko, goalkeeper Yegor Podomazki and Alexei Amelin individual awards of the Russian League.

Goalkeeper Andrei Malkov, Yegor Podomazki

Defender: Alexei Amelin, Ilya Gorokhov, Denis Grebeschkow, Alexander Guskov, Dmitri Krassotkin, Yuri Kuznetsov, Sergei Zhukov, Andrei Sobolev, Martin Strbak, Alexei Vasiliev

Attacker: Vladimir Antipov, Alexander Ardaschew, Anton But, Vyacheslav Buzajew, Sergei Korolyov, Andrei Kovalenko, Artem Kryukov, Ivan Neprjajew Jan Peterek, Konstantin Rudenko, Vladimir Samylin, Wadym Schachrajtschuk, Sergei Zhukov, Alexander Skugarew, Alexander Suglobow, Ivan Tkachenko, Dmitri Wlassenkow, Pavel Vorobyov

Master title in 2003

In the summer of 2002 was the management of locomotive, the champion squad together and undertook complement players like Yuri Buzajew and Sergei Nemchinov. Vladimír Vůjtek complemented the team again to young players like Grigori Schafigulin, Andrei Perwyschin and Konstantin Glasatschow and shaped it again a successful team that finished the main round of the 2002 /03 on the first place with eleven points ahead. Here come the team 34 wins in seven draws and ten defeats. In total, locomotive 163 goals and was, together with the HK Avangard Omsk the highest-scoring team in the league. In addition, locomotive took part in January 2003 at the final tournament of the Continental Cup, where she graduated in second place behind Jokerit Helsinki.

In the Super League playoffs, the team Salavat Yulaev Ufa defeated in the first round 3-0, Lada Togliatti in the semifinals 3-0, and met with it in the final series on Severstal Cherepovets. Locomotive won the first two games of the series with 3:1 4:1, respectively, before Severstal asserted itself in the third game 4-2. In the fourth finals locomotive came with the 4-0 win the decisive third game and won the second title in a row. Performers of the team were the striker Vyacheslav Buzajew, Andrei Kovalenko, Vladimir Antipov, Alexander Guskov defender and goalkeeper Yegor Podomazki. Kovalenko, Guskov and Podomazki received the Player Trophies after the season.

Goalkeeper Andrei Malkov, Yegor Podomazki

Defender: Ilya Gorokhov, Denis Grebeschkow, Alexander Guskov, Yevgeny Korolyov, Dmitri Krassotkin, Andrei Perwyschin, Radim Tesařík, Alexei Vasiliev

Attacker: Vladimir Antipov Anton But, Yuri Buzajew, Vyacheslav Buzajew, Konstantin Glasatschow, Andrei Kovalenko, Sergei Nemchinov, Ivan Neprjajew Jan Peterek, Konstantin Rudenko, Vladimir Samylin, Grigori Schafigulin, Sergei Zhukov, Alexander Suglobow, Ivan Tkachenko, Dmitri Wlassenkow, Pavel Vorobyov

Coach: Vladimír Vůjtek, Vladimir Jursinow

After this success, Vladimír Vůjtek left the club after he had assumed a highly doped contract offer from Ak Bars Kazan. The coach took office the former assistant coach Vladimir Jursinow, which was first replaced by a series of defeats in October 2003 by Vladimir Kryuchkov and in November by Július Šupler. Under Šupler the team was able to regain its former power and achieved seventh place in the main round. Previously locomotive had participated in the year-end Spengler Cup ( Sweeps ) # host the 2003 Spengler Cup, finished third in the team of Šupler. In the playoff quarterfinals of the Super League, the team of locomotive Lada Togliatti was defeated 0-3.

In the summer of 2004, the management of the club with Kari Heikkilä engaged a Finnish coach, the newly put together the team. Due to the lockout in the National Hockey League, the club NHL players like Marc Lamothe, Denis Schwidki, Pyotr Stschastliwy, Nikolai Antropov, Karel Rachunek, Alexander and Alexei Yashin Karpowzew could undertake. The newly formed team finished the main round in fifth place, and came after a 3-1 series against the Kazan Ak Bars in the playoff semi-finals. In this hit it again on the team Lada Togliatti, who was defeated in three games. The series for third place won 2-0 against Avangard Omsk locomotive. After the season, all NHL players left the club except Rachunek and Stschastliwy. With Vladimir Jursinow a new head coach was hired, who led the team to third place in the main round and down to the playoff semifinals. In this it was subject to Ak Bars Kazan 0-3.

Successes in the KHL (2008-2011)

In the first season, which was founded in 2008 reached KHL Lokomotiv Yaroslavl under head coach Kari Heikkilä winning the Kharlamov Diwision and finished with 111 points, third place in the main round. In the playoffs, the team Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk defeated in the second round, the HK Spartak Moscow Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the quarterfinals and in the semifinals. In the play-off final at the Gagarin Poka locomotive met the Ak Bars Kazan. In a thrilling best- of-seven series locomotive won the first, third and fifth game, so it was 3:3 draw after six games. In the decisive seventh game Alexei Morozov scored the only goal for Kazan and secured his team thus the title.

After the season Yaroslavl goalkeeper Georgi Gelashvili was named the best goalkeeper Yuri Yakovlev as well as the best general manager of the KHL. In addition Gelashvili was elected to the All- Star team in the league. Team Captain Alexei Yashin was 47 scorer points to the Topscorern the season.

Before the following season locomotive was transferred to the Tarassow Diwision. At the end of the main round, the club finished in third place with 96 points and the Diwision fifth place in the Western Conference. With victories over Atlant Mytischtschi and HK Spartak Moscow in the quarter - and semi-finals he reached the Conference Finals, in which the team HK MVD Balaschicha defeated with 3:4. So it reached the fourth place, while striker Alexander Galimov Lokomotives and Gennadi Tschurilow were 14 scorer points to find the best scorers of the KHL playoffs. In addition, Georgi Gelashvili showed a catch rate of 93.3 percent and a Gegentorschnitt of 1.89 again performed very well in the playoffs. Individual trophies were at the end of the season for Tschurilow with the Ironman Award and Sergei Zhukov with the award as Fairstem players.

Plane Crash (2011)

7 September 2011 crashed near Yaroslavl shortly after takeoff from the airport Tunoschna an aircraft of the type Yakovlev Yak - 42. A total of 43 of the 45 passengers died in the crash. There were, with the exception of the player Daniil Jerdakow, Artur Amirov and Maxim Sjusjakin and the Finnish goalie coach Jorma Valtonen the entire crew in the aircraft. The plane was on its way to the Belarusian capital Minsk, where the first league match of the season should Locomotive 2011/12 held against the HC Dinamo Minsk.

From the squad forward Alexander Galimov, only survived the crash that in a Moscow hospital succumbed to his injuries five days later.

Goalkeeper Stefan Liv, Oleksandr Wjuchin

Defender: Vitaly Anikejenko, Mikhail Balandin, Robert Dietrich Marat Kalimulin, Karel Rachunek, Ruslan Salej, Maxim Shuvalov Karlis Skrastiņš, Pawel Trachanow, Yuri Urytschew

Attacker: Pavol Demitra, Alexander Galimov, Artyom Jartschuk, Alexander Kaljanin, Andrei Kirjuchin, Nikita Kljukin, Jan Marek, Sergei Ostapchuk, Pawel Snurnizyn, Daniil Sobtschenko, Ivan Tkachenko, Gennady Tschurilow, Josef Vašíček, Alexander Wassjunow

Head coach Brad McCrimmon assistant coach Alexander Karpowzew, Igor Korolev

Official & Maintainer: Yuri Bachwalow, Alexander Belyayev, Mikalaj Krywanossau Yevgeny Kunnow, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Vladimir Piskunov, Yevgeny Sidorov, Andrei Zimin

The leagues head of the Kontinental Hockey League was on the day after the accident initially announced that the match operation will until further notice. The season opener was thus postponed indefinitely. A little later the start of the season was scheduled for September 12. The Kubok Otkrytija, at the Austragungstag happened the misfortune was renamed locomotive Cup.

Reconstruction of the team ( since 2011 )

Although the club lost almost his entire team in the crash, the KHL president Vyacheslav Fetisov announced on September 8 that on 11 September, the members of the new squad would be presented. Three days after the disaster announced team President Yuri Yakovlev, that the club exposes the KHL 2011/12 season from the league. However, the newly formed team from December 2011 to begin rebuilding in the second-rate Wysschaja Hockey League and be automatically set for the play-offs.

The first game of the newly formed team, which consisted of their own and coming young players from other clubs, took place on 12 December 2011. In a sold-out arena in 2000 Loko defeated the leader of the VHL, Neftjanik Almetyevsk, 5-1.

For the 2012/13 season the club was resumed in the KHL and committed for this a team consisting of seasoned international professionals as well as young talents.

In the 2012/2013 season, the club maintained a second team that continue participated in the operation of the game Wysschaja Hockey League and acted as a farm team of the professional team. They finished 10th and was eliminated in the playoff second round with 2:3 against the HK Buran from Voronezh. After the season, the second team was disbanded again.

Squad of the 2013/14 season

As of October 7, 2013

Season statistics

Wysschaja League (1987-1992)

Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, Pts = Points, GS = Goals Scored, GT = Goals against

International Hockey League (1992-1996)

Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, Pts = Points (bonus points in brackets), GS = Goals Scored, GT = Goals against

Super League (1996-2008)

Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime, SOS = Wins after Shootout, D = Draw, OTN = Losses after Overtime, SON = Losses after Shootout, L = Losses, Pts = Points, GS = Goals Scored GT = Goals against

Continental Hockey League (2008-2011, since 2012 )

Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime, SOS = Wins after Shootout, OTN = Losses after Overtime, SON = Losses after Shootout, L = Losses, Pts = Points, GS = Goals Scored, GT = Goals against

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