HC Dinamo Minsk
| Dinamo-Minsk Дина́мо-Минск | |
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| Nickname | Bisons |
| City | Minsk |
| League |
KHL 2008-present
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| Conference | Western |
| Division | Bobrov |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Home arena |
Minsk-Arena (Capacity: 15,086) |
| Colours | |
| Owner(s) | BFSO Dinamo |
| General manager | Pavel Burba |
| Head coach | Craig Woodcroft |
| Captain | Alexander Pavlovich |
| Affiliate(s) | Dinamo-Shinnik (MHL) |
| Website | HC Dinamo-Minsk |
| Franchise history | |
| HC Dinamo-Minsk | |
Hockey Club Dinamo-Minsk (Russian: Дина́мо-Минск; Belarusian: Дынама-Мінск, Dynama-Minsk) is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs (Gagarin Cup) three times: in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2014-15 KHL seasons. The team hasn't won a single round of the Gagarin Cup yet, losing in all three series.
Alexander Pavlovich is the current captain of the team, with his alternates being Alexander Kulakov and Sergei Kostitsyn.
History
The origins of the club begin in 1966, where the original Dinamo played 5 seasons in the Soviet Top Ice Hockey League, with its highest finish being 10th place in the 1989/90 season. Dinamo was renamed as Tivali Minsk in 1993 and four times became a champion of the Belarusian Championship in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 2000. Tivali was disbanded in 2000. Dinamo was founded in 2003, taking the name of the historic club, and won champion title and Belarus Cup twice.
On March 26, 2008, the KHL confirmed the Belarusian club's inclusion in the Bobrov Division. Dinamo-Minsk started to play on the ice of Minsk Palace of Sports and was relocated to the newly built Minsk-Arena 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 protégé of previous Belarus national team head coach Curt Fraser. 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, who brought the Belarus national team to the sixth place at WC2006 in Riga. The team roster was fulfilled with world famous players Ville Peltonen and Ossi Väänänen, also one of the best the Belarus goaltenders Andrei Mezin was employed by HC Dinamo-Minsk. Season of 2009/2010 was alike to the previous. Team hadn't showed good result and Glen Hanlon was substituted by head coach of HK Homiel. Dinamo-Minsk finished at the 17th spot in the KHL, while missing the play-offs, but still managed to win Spengler Cup 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. Sýkora is widely thought as one of the best coaches of Kontinental Hockey League. He brought Metallurg Magnitogorsk to the final games in 2005 and a rookie of the KHL Avtomobilist 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 prevailed in the decisive game seven of the series. Also Dinamo-Minsk was named the most attended club in the KHL after the 2010-2011 season.
The new season of Dinamo-Minsk was to have begun on September 8, 2011 versus Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. However, on September 7, 2011, a plane carrying the Lokomotiv team to the game in Minsk crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all of the team's roster. Four days later, a memorial ceremony took place at the Minsk-Arena, with all Minsk players paying tributes to each one of the victims.
Arenas
Dinamo called Minsk Sports Palace as their home until they moved to the new Minsk-Arena in 2010.
Honors
Champions
- Belarusian Extraleague: (1): 2007
- Belarus Cup (2): 2005, 2006
- BSSR League: (2): 1968, 1970
- Spengler Cup (1): 2009
Runners-up
- Belarusian Extraliga (1): 2006
Season-by-season KHL record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime/Shootout Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime/Shootout Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points
| Season | GP | W | OTW | L | OTL | Pts | GF | GA | Finish | Top Scorer | Playoffs |
| 2008–09 | 56 | 12 | 3 | 34 | 7 | 49 | 124 | 197 | 6th, Bobrov | Yaroslav Chupris (25 points: 9 G, 16 A; 52 GP) | Did not qualify |
| 2009–10 | 56 | 17 | 6 | 31 | 2 | 65 | 139 | 164 | 6th, Bobrov | Geoff Platt (44 points: 26 G, 18 A; 56 GP) | Did not qualify |
| 2010–11 | 54 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 7 | 74 | 150 | 155 | 4th, Tarasov | Konstantin Glazachev (35 points: 12 G, 23 A; 52 GP) | Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-3 (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) |
| 2011–12 | 54 | 21 | 7 | 20 | 6 | 83 | 158 | 148 | 4th, Tarasov | Teemu Laine (42 points: 20 G, 22 A; 54 GP) | Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-0 (Dynamo Moscow) |
| 2012–13 | 52 | 18 | 6 | 23 | 5 | 71 | 125 | 148 | 5th, Tarasov | Tim Stapleton (40 points: 24 G, 16 A; 52 GP) | Did not qualify |
| 2013–14 | 54 | 13 | 4 | 31 | 6 | 53 | 102 | 161 | 7th, Bobrov | Geoff Platt (29 points: 15 G, 14 A; 40 GP) | Did not qualify |
| 2014–15 | 60 | 27 | 7 | 21 | 5 | 100 | 171 | 159 | 3rd, Bobrov | Charles Linglet (58 points: 22 G, 36 A; 54 GP) | Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-1 (Jokerit) |
Players
Current roster
Updated August 15, 2016.[1][2]
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
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Franchise records
Regular season
- Most goals in a season: Geoff Platt, 26 (2009–10)
- Most assists in a season: Charles Linglet, 36 (2014–15)
- Most points in a season: Charles Linglet, 58 (2014–15)
- Most penalty minutes in a season: Duvie Westcott, 146 (2009–10)
- Most points in a season, defenseman: Nick Bailen, 37 (2014–15)
- Most points in a game: Jonathan Cheechoo, 5 (vs. Jokerit, September 4, 2014, 3 goals and 2 assists)[3]
- Most powerplay goals in a season: Geoff Platt, (2009–10), Jonathan Cheechoo, (2014-15) - tied with 10
- Most shorthanded goals in a season: Ilya Dokshin (2008–09), Geoff Platt (2009–10), Alexander Kulakov (2010–11), Zbyněk Irgl (2011–12), Andrei Stas (2011–12), Zbyněk Irgl (2013–14), Matt Ellison (2014–15), Jonathan Cheechoo (2014-15) - all tied with 2
- Most wins in a season: Kevin Lalande, 16 (2011–12)
- Most shutouts in a season: Kevin Lalande, 4 (2011–12)
- Highest plus-minus in a season: Libor Pivko - +18 (2011–12)
Playoffs
- Most goals in a playoff season: Geoff Platt, 4 (2010–11)
- Most assists in a playoff season: Peter Podhradský, 6 (2010–11)
- Most points in a playoff season: Peter Podhradský, 8 (2010–11)
- Most penalty minutes in a playoff season: Jordan Henry, 33 (2010–11)
- Most points in a playoff season, defenseman: Peter Podhradský, 8 (2010–11)
- Most points in a game, playoff: 3, shared by 5 players
Hat-tricks
- Dmitry Meleshko, 11-21-2010 at Metallurg Magnitogorsk - needed 43.26 to complete the feat[4]
- Zbyněk Irgl, 11-22-2011 at Barys Astana - needed 31.48 to complete the feat[5]
- Jonathan Cheechoo, 09-04-2014 at Jokerit - needed 42.54 to complete the feat[6]
- Jonathan Cheechoo, 10-24-2014 at Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk - needed 26.09 to complete the feat[7]
References
- ↑ "Dinamo Minsk Team Roster" (in Russian). www.dinamo.by. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
- ↑ "Dinamo Minsk team roster". www.khl.ru. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
- ↑ "Jokerit Helsinki - Dinamo Minsk boxscore". KHL official site.
- ↑ "Metallurg Magnitogorsk - Dinamo Minsk boxscore". KHL official site.
- ↑ "Barys Astana - Dinamo Minsk boxscore". KHL official site.
- ↑ "Jokerit Helsinki - Dinamo Minsk boxscore". KHL official site.
- ↑ "Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk - Dinamo Minsk boxscore". KHL official site.
External links
- (Russian) Dinamo Minsk Official website
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