HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk ХК Металлург Магнитогорск |
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history | HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk (since 1950) |
Location | Magnitogorsk , Russia |
Club colors | blue, red, white |
league | Continental hockey league |
Venue | Arena Metallurg |
capacity | 7,500 seats |
Head coach | Viktor Kozlov |
captain | Sergei Mosjakin |
Season 2017/18 | 5th place (east), playoff quarter-finals |
The Metallurg Magnitogorsk ( Russian ХК Металлург Магнитогорск ) is established in 1950 Hockey Club of the Russian city of Magnitogorsk . Magnitogorsk plays in the Continental Hockey League and plays its home games in the 7500-seat Metallurg Arena . The club colors are blue, red and white.
history
After the club, founded in 1950, had played in the fourth highest division in 1981 and had made it to the Pervaya League that year, the team developed into one of the top teams in Russia.
First, the team rose as third-placed in the Pervaya League in 1990 in the second-rate Vysschaya League . Only two seasons later, he was promoted to the top division and shortly afterwards was accepted into the super league . There the team became Russian champions in 1999, 2001 and 2007 and vice- champions in 1996, 1998 and 2004. In 1998 he also won the cup competition.
Magnitogorsk has also celebrated various successes at the international level in the recent past. In 1999 the team won the IIHF European Hockey League for the first time . The title was successfully defended a year later. Metallurg also won the 2005 Spengler Cup . With the victory in the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2008, the team won the last edition of the competition, which automatically qualified them for the Champions Hockey League 2008/09 , and for the first-ever Victoria Cup against the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League . Magnitogorsk lost the game 3: 4 despite a 3-0 lead.
In the 2008/09 season Metallurg reached the final of the Champions Hockey League , in which the team lost 5-0 to the ZSC Lions from Switzerland after 2-2 in the first leg in the second leg.
In 2014 the club was able to win the Gagarin Cup , the title of KHL champion, for the first time , and HC Lev Prague was defeated in the final. In 2016, the Gagarin Cup was won again, this time Metallurg prevailed in the final series 4: 3 against HK CSKA Moscow .
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Squad of the 2017/18 season
Status: August 2020
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Individual evidence
- ↑ metallurg.ru, Контракт с Александром Барковым расторгнут ( memento of the original from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ metallurg.ru, Главным тренером магнитогорского "Металлурга" назначен Фёдор Канарейкин