Kohtla-Järve Viru Sputnik

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Kohtla-Järve Viru Sputnik
Greatest successes
Club information
history Kohtla-Järve Viru Sputnik (since 2003)
Location Kohtla-Järve , Estonia
Club colors blue yellow
league Meistriliiga
Venue Kohtla-Järve suddenly
capacity 2,000 seats (including 1,800 seats)
2015/16 3rd place

Kohtla-Järve Viru Sputnik is an Estonian ice hockey club from Kohtla-Järve , which was founded in 2003 and plays in the Meistriliiga . The home games are played in the 2000-seat Kohtla-Järve jäähall .

history

After the dissolution of HK Central Kohtla-Järve , Viru Sputnik was founded in 2003 as the successor club of Kohtla-Järve and finished fifth in the Estonian top division in the following year . From 2005 to 2007, the team came in fifth three times in a row. In the 2009 game year, the team came second behind the champions HK Stars . In 2010 the club won the Estonian championship for the first time.

Furthermore, the club participated in the 2010/11 season at the discharge of the IIHF Continental Cup in part and entered the competition in the second round. In this, the team recorded two wins and one defeat against KS Cracovia Krakau , Tilburg Trappers and CH Jaca . As a result, the team missed out on the next round as a team classified in second place.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Continental Cup

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