HK Vitjas

HK Witjas Хоккейный клуб «Ви́тязь»
Greatest successes
Promotion to the super league in 2005
Club information
history	Vitjas Podolsk (1996-2004) Vitjas Chekhov (2004-2013) HK Vitjas (since 2013)
Location	Podolsk , Russia
Nickname	The Knights
Club colors	white, red, black
league	Continental hockey league
Venue	Vityaz Ice Palace
capacity	5,500 seats (including 4,860 seats)
executive Director	Igor Varitsky
Head coach	Michail Krawez
captain	Alexander Syomin
Season 2017/18	11th place (west), no playoff qualification

The HC Vityaz ( Russian Хоккейный клуб "Витязь" ) is an established in 1996. Hockey Club of Podolsk . He plays in the Continental Hockey League (KHL). The club colors are white, red and black.

history

The ice hockey center in Chekhov

In 2005 he was promoted to the super league. Before that, the club played mostly in the Wysschaya League . The club was founded in Podolsk , but moved to Chekhov in 2000. The name was changed to Vitjas Chekhov in 2004. From 2000 the club played its home games in the Ice Palace Vitjas in Podolsk, which was also used as a venue for HK MWD Balaschikha until 2006 . In 2004, the Chekhov ice hockey center was opened, initially accommodating 1,370 spectators and henceforth the home ground of Vitja. During the 2007/08 season the ice hockey center was expanded to 3,300 seats, but it still does not meet the standards of the Super League or KHL.

Since joining the KHL, the club has been known for its physical and North American style of play.

In 2013, the exemption from the KHL for stadiums with less than 5,500 spectators expired, so Vityas returned to Podolsk to play again in the Vityas Ice Palace.

Trainer

• 1999 - October 2000: Alexander Satschessow
• October 2000 - April 2001: Alexander Barinev
• 2001-2003: Waleri Below
• 2003–2004: Yuri Rumyantsev
• April 2004 - January 2005: Mischat Fachrutdinow
• January 2005 - June 2005: Alexander Bodunow
• June 2005 - October 2005: Anatoly Bogdanov
• October 2005 - April 2006: Alexander Bodunow
• 2006-2007: Mike Krushelnyski
• June 2007 - October 2007: Mischat Fachrutdinow
• October 2007 - 2008: Sergei Gomolyako
• 2008–2009: Mike Krushelnyski
• 2009–2010: Alexei Yarushkin
• 2010–2012: Andrei Nazarow
• 2012 - January 2014: Yuri Leonov
• January 2014 - November 2015: Oleg Orechowski
• November 2015 - March 2016: Rawil Jakubow
• March 2016 - May 2019: Waleri Below
• since May 2019: Michail Krawez

Squad of the 2018/19 season

Status: August 2020

No.	Nat.	player	Item	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
33		Ilya Yezhov	G	January 12, 1987	2019	Krasnodar , Russian SFSR
76		Pyotr Kochetkov	G	June 25, 1999	2019	Kazan , Russia
40		Igor Saprykin	G	January 30, 1992	2012	Moscow , Russia
		Artyom Borodkin	D.	October 11, 1991	2020	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
11		Igor Golovkov	D.	May 17, 1990	2011	Moscow , Russian SFSR
15th		Jakub Jeřábek	D.	May 12, 1991	2019	Pilsen , Czechoslovakia
7th		Alexander Yevseenkov -  A.	D.	02nd October 1985	2018	Malachowka , Russian SFSR
26th		Yevgeny Katichev	D.	03rd September 1986	2016	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
47		Ville Lajunen	D.	0March 8, 1988	2019	Helsinki , Finland
45		Daniil Pylenkow	D.	September 26, 2000	2019	Yegorievsk , Russia
8th		Illja Schynkewitsch	D.	0September 1, 1989	2018	Minsk , Belarusian SSR
5		Mikalaj Stassenka	D.	February 15, 1987	2018	Roschtschina , Russian SFSR
59		Yegor Voronkov	D.	January 23, 1997	2015	Podolsk , Russia
44		Yevgeny Artyuchin	RW	0April 4th 1983	2019	Moscow , Russian SFSR
		Kaspars Daugaviņš	LW	May 18, 1988	2020	Riga , Latvian SSR
		Alexander Dergachev	C.	September 27, 1996	2020	Langepas , Russia
71		Svyatoslav Grebenschtschikow	RW	0June 1, 1994	2019	Saint Petersburg , Russia
		Quinton Howden	C.	January 21, 1992	2019	Oakbank , Manitoba , Canada
25th		Pekka Jormakka	RW	September 14, 1990	2019	Jyväskylä rural community , Finland
68		Ivan Larschev	LW	November 29, 1995	2019	Nizhny Tagil , Russia
		Dmitri Lugin	RW	0April 1, 1990	2020	Khabarovsk , Russian SFSR
93		Danila Moiseyev	LW	July 25, 1998	2017	Chelyabinsk , Russia
23		Yevgeny Mons	RW	March 23, 1989	2018	Cherepovets , Russian SFSR
28		Alexander Syomin -  C.	RW	0March 3, 1984	2018	Krasnoyarsk , Russian SFSR
		Mikhail Smolin	LW	04th September 1997	2020	Nizhny Novgorod , Russia
		Mattias Tedenby	LW	February 21, 1990	2020	Vetlanda , Sweden
51		Pavel Warfolomeev	F.	April 15, 1995	2019	Magnitogorsk , Russia
21st		Nikita Wyglasow -  A.	LW	October 28, 1985	2014	Olenegorsk , Russian SFSR

Well-known former players

• Alexander Koroljuk (2004-2008)
• Daniil Markow (2004/05)
• Alexei Schamnow (2004/05)
• Sergejs Naumovs (2004/05)
• Boris Mironov (2006/07)
• Sébastien Charpentier (2006/07)
• Andrej Podkonický (2007/08)
• Dimitri Pätzold (2008)
• Derrick Walser (2008/09)
• Ahren Spylo (2008/09)
• Artemi Panarin (2008-2013)
• Mikhail Sergachev (2012-2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Violent Vityaz rock Russian hockey . The Moscow News. August 25, 2011. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. 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. Retrieved April 21, 2013. 
2. ↑ KHL scorers who used to be NHLers . The Hockey News. November 24, 2010. Archived from the original on June 3, 2012. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 21, 2013. 
3. ↑ Семен Галькевич: Переезд ХК "Витязь" в Подольск - свершившийся факт, заявил Варицкий. In: rsport.ru. May 26, 2013, accessed October 28, 2015 . 

Web links

• Official Website ( Russian )
• Stadium information, history, statistics