HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk

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HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
ХК Югра Ханты-Мансийск
HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk ХК Югра Ханты-Мансийск
Greatest successes
Club information
history HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk (since 2006)
Location Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia
Club colors blue green
league Vysschaya Hockey League
Venue Arena Ugra
capacity 5,500 seats
Season 2018/19 7th place, play-off round of 16

The HC Ugra ( Russian Хоккейный Клуб Югра Ханты-Мансийск ) is established in 2006 hockey club from Khanty-Mansiysk , the capital of the Autonomous Okrug of Khanty-Mansi . The team was accepted into the Continental Hockey League following the Vysschaya League championship in the 2009/10 season and plays its home games in the Jugra Arena, which has a capacity of 5,500 . The club colors are blue and green. In 2018 HK Jugra was excluded from the KHL and has since taken part in the Wysschaja Hockey League again

history

The club was founded in 2006 and immediately started playing in the fourth-class Wtoraja League . At the end of the first season, the club won the championship of its season, so that he was promoted to the Pervaya League . In the 2007/08 season they won the championship of the third division, so that the club was able to rise to the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, for the first time . As a promoted team, the team won the second division championship in 2009. The club also moved to its new venue, the Jugra Arena , which has a capacity of 5,500 people. A year later, the team repeated the success of the previous year, whereupon Ugra replaced the financially ailing club HK Lada Tolyatti in the Continental Hockey League .

In the first KHL season , Ugra took part in the play-offs for the Gagarin Cup , after the team had finished the regular season in tenth place (fifth in the Eastern Conference) with 87 points. In the conference quarter-finals, she failed in six games 2: 4 at HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk . The team's best scorer in its first season in the top division was Ivan Chlynzew , who collected 29 points, 11 goals and 18 assists. Ugras's top scorer was Igor Skorokhodov with 16 goals. In the following season Ugra again reached the play-offs, but lost the series in the first round with 1: 4 against HK tractor Chelyabinsk .

Before the 2011/12 season, Ugra also founded a junior team for the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja League , which was called Mamonty Jugry (Ugra-Mammoths) and which also plays the home games in the Ugra Arena in Khanty-Mansiysk.

Between 2007 and 2013 Sergei Shepelev was the head coach of Ugra, who led the club from the second division to the KHL. Most recently he was supported by Sergei Kotow and Nikolai Solowjow. In October 2013 he left the club after a series of defeats and was replaced by junior coach Oleg Davydov . From the 2014/15 season, Dmitri Juschkewitsch was head coach at HK Ugra and received a three-year contract from the latter before he was dismissed along with his assistants at the end of January 2015 after a series of defeats.

In March 2018, the KHL board decided to exclude HK Jugra and HK Lada Tolyatti from the KHL. This step was justified primarily with a lack of sporting results, a high financing rate by the KHL itself, a lack of TV ratings and low audience numbers at home games. The clubs were then included in the Wysschaja Hockey League .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eurohockey.com, KHL adds 29th team , November 8, 2013
  2. ↑ en.khl.ru, Ugra hires Yushkevich , April 16, 2014
  3. ↑ en.khl.ru, Yushkevich fired by Ugra , January 31, 2015
  4. ↑ Associated Press: KHL contracts 2 clubs, lowers salary cap. In: espn.com. March 28, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Алексан: Чернышенко: «Лада» и «Югра» переходят в ВХЛ. In: championat.com. March 28, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .