Amur Khabarovsk

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Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk Logo.png
CityKhabarovsk, Russia
LeagueKHL
ConferenceEastern
DivisionChernyshev
Founded1966
Home arenaPlatinum Arena
(capacity: 7,100)
Colours     
Owner(s)Sukhoi
General managerRoman Kramar
Head coachSergei Svetlov
Affiliate(s)Sokol Krasnoyarsk (VHL)
Amurskie Tigry (MHL)
Websitehcamur.ru
Current season

Hockey Club Amur (Russian: Хоккейный клуб Амур), commonly referred to as the Amur Khabarovsk,[1] is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Khabarovsk. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Located in the Russian Far East, the team takes its name from the Amur River, and plays its home games at the Platinum Arena.

History[]

Amur Khabarovsk was founded in 1966 as SKA Khabarovsk; it only adopted its current name in 1996, a name that comes from the nearby river Amur. By its location in the Russian Far East, the team is pretty isolated from every other team in the KHL, making rivalries difficult; the nearest KHL team is Admiral Vladivostok. Still, the team is very popular among Khabarovsk citizens, and despite its usual poor results, the team keeps being highly successful at the gates.

For a long time a lower division dweller, Khabarovsk won the championship of the Soviet League Division 3 in 1989, earning promotion to the upper level. The team played regular season games known as the "Red Army" against West Coast Hockey League teams for the 1995–96 and 1996–97 seasons.[2]

In 1996, Khabarovsk promoted to the Russian Superleague. A relegation to the Vysshaya Liga occurred in 2004 when the mining company that funds the club had financial difficulties. The Tigers could promote back to the top level in 2006. That same financial crisis forced the team's reserve squad, the Golden Amur Khabarovsk, to withdraw from the Asia League where it played for the 2004-05 season. The team could finish the season and take part in the playoffs, however; they finished third in regular season standings and failed to reach the playoffs finals.

HC Amur players in 2015–16 season.

In 2008, Khabarovsk was one of the 24 founding members of the Kontinental Hockey League. The team played the league's inaugural game on September 2 against Dinamo Riga at home in front of a sell-out crowd of 7,100 people. They lost, 4-2 to the Latvian team. Riga and the Tigers were playing back-to-back games in Khabarovsk, however, and on the second match, Amur won 7-6 in a tied game that went to shootouts. But the 2008-09 didn't prove to be very successful for the Tigers. The team was plagued with injuries - in October only, 11 players were side-lined, including imports Kyle Wanvig and Bryce Lampman. The Tigers needed to strengthen their squad, and therefore offered a contract to Carolina Hurricanes's Matt Murley, which resulted in a controversy sometimes compared to Alexander Radulov's, even though there are many differences. Murley's signing didn't prove beneficial for Amur though, as he only contributed 8 points to a fairly impotent offence that scored only 111 goals. Veterans Oleg Belkin and Peter Nylander were Amur's top goal scorers with 11 goals each; Belkin was top scorer with a meager 24 points in 50 games. Amur's defence was better, with regular defencemen Vasily Turkovsky and Viktor Kostyuchenok even managing to finish the season with a +3 and +2 record, respectively. But overall, the season was disappointing for the Tigers, with a 20th place, 15 wins and 60 points.

Things barely improved in 2009-10. Amur finished 21st, out of playoffs again, this time again with 60 points and only 12 wins in regular time (plus three in overtime and six in the shootouts). Former Montreal Canadiens' and Columbus Blue Jackets' David Ling did the best in offense with 32 points, while Alexei Kopeikin and Ruslan Khasanshin were the best goal scorers with respectively 16 and 14 goals. All in all, it's only 129 goals that the team scored, 18 better than the previous season, but still fourth worst in the league. had to miss the whole season, while Peter Nylander left the team after ten game to go back in Sweden, joining Timrå IK of the Elitserien. The defence was not as solid as the previous season, with Turkovsky retired and Kostyuchenok traded to HC Spartak Moscow after 14 games. The result was 187 goals against, 29 more than the previous season. Former NHL veteran and Stanley Cup winner Nolan Pratt ended up being the fourth defenceman on the team in icetime and finished the season with 11 points and a -14 +/- rating. Despite a disappointing season, Khabarovsk still had the 4th highest average attendance in the league, with an average of 7,100 fans per game.

Season-by-season KHL record[]

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime/Shootout Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Season GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Pts GF GA Finish Top Scorer Playoffs
2008–09 56 15 2 2 6 1 30 60 111 158 6th, Kharlamov Div. (25 points: 11 G, 14 A; 50 GP) Did not qualify
2009–10 56 12 3 6 4 2 29 60 129 187 10th, East David Ling (32 points: 8 G, 24 A; 46 GP) Did not qualify
2010–11 54 13 1 1 3 4 32 50 112 173 11th, East Radik Zakiev (25 points: 12 G, 13 A; 54 GP) Did not qualify
2011–12 54 23 1 4 3 2 21 84 166 139 7th, East Jakub Petružálek (50 points: 22 G, 28 A; 54 GP) Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 0-4 (Avangard Omsk)
2012–13 52 11 1 4 1 0 35 44 115 167 13th, East Jakub Petružálek (33 points: 15 G, 18 A; 41 GP) Did not qualify
2013–14 54 8 1 4 10 1 30 45 106 182 14th, East Alexander Yunkov (29 points: 18 G, 11 A; 50 GP) Did not qualify
2014–15 60 11 0 3 4 2 40 45 117 207 14th, East Dmitri Tarasov (36 points: 13 G, 23 A; 59 GP) Did not qualify
2015–16 60 17 3 3 6 0 31 69 112 143 12th, East (25 points: 14 G, 11 A; 57 GP) Did not qualify
2016–17 60 20 1 4 4 2 29 76 110 130 12th, East Tomáš Zohorna (34 points: 13 G, 21 A; 59 GP) Did not qualify
2017–18 56 21 5 3 3 6 18 88 132 141 8th, East (43 points: 19 G, 24 A; 56 GP) Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 1-4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2018–19 62 17 2 1 5 4 33 49 126 175 13th, East Tomáš Zohorna (29 points: 14 G, 15 A; 62 GP) Did not qualify
2019–20 62 20 1 5 6 4 26 62 132 145 9th, East (34 points: 16 G, 18 A; 62 GP) Did not qualify
2020–21 60 17 6 1 5 2 29 55 146 171 10th, East (31 points: 15 G, 16 A; 60 GP) Did not qualify

Players[]

Current roster[]

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Updated 26 March 2021.[3][4]

# Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
32 Czech Republic Patrik Bartošák G L 28 2021 Kopřivnice, Czech Republic
3 Russia D R 22 2019 Kurgan, Russia
96 Czech Republic David Tomášek RW R 25 2021 Prague, Czech Republic
10 Russia LW/C L 27 2021 Moscow, Russia
18 Russia G L 27 2015 Perm, Russia
45 Russia Artyom Alyayev D L 27 2021 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
92 Russia LW L 28 2020 Novocheboksarsk, Russia
17 Russia LW R 27 2020 Prokopyevsk, Russia
93 Russia Danil Faizullin RW R 28 2018 Kazan, Russia
10 Russia Vladimir Galuzin C L 33 2021 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR
87 Russia C L 24 2018 Almetievsk, Russia
28 Russia Denis Golubev C R 30 2017 Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR
61 Russia RW R 31 2017 Surgut, Russian SFSR
47 Czech Republic Michal Jordan D L 31 2017 Zlin, Czechoslovakia
55 Russia Gleb Koryagin D L 27 2018 Moscow, Russia
84 Russia Alexander Kuznetsov C L 29 2018 Moscow, Russia
27 Czech Republic Dominik Mašín D L 26 2020 Mestec Kralove, Czech Republic
78 Russia D R 26 2019 Moscow, Russia
99 Russia F L 23 2020 Sergiyev Posad, Russia
11 Russia C L 25 2021 Hartford, Connecticut, United States
73 Russia D L 27 2021 Kaunas, Lithuania
19 Russia Nikita Pivtsakin D L 30 2021 Osmk, Russian SFSR
45 Russia Valentin Pyanov LW L 30 2020 Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR
23 Kazakhstan D L 26 2020 Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
24 Russia C L 26 2020 Chelyabinsk, Russia
37 Russia Kirill Slepets RW L 22 2021 Khabarovsk, Russia
52 Russia Sergei Tereschenko D R 30 2020 Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR
6 Russia Valeri Vasilyev D L 27 2019 Moscow, Russia
29 Russia LW R 22 2020 Khabarovsk, Russia
13 Russia C L 26 2018 Nizhny Tagil, Russia
39 Russia D L 21 2020 Moscow, Russia
73 Belarus Dmitri Znakharenko D R 28 2021 Gomel, Belarus
38 Russia Ilya Zubov C L 34 2021 Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR
25 Czech Republic Radan Lenc F L 30 2021 Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia

Franchise records and leaders[]

Scoring leaders[]

These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history in the KHL. Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; bold = current Amur player [5]

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/- PPG SHG GWG
Czech Republic Tomas Zohorna 313 64 100 164 246 -10 13 2 11
Russia 308 69 64 133 112 -11 20 0 13
Russia 306 38 91 129 198 -19 9 0 6
Russia Dmitri Tarasov 249 47 63 110 140 -45 10 0 4
Czech Republic Jakub Petruzalek 133 50 54 104 60 -2 18 4 11
Russia 208 40 47 87 59 -14 14 0 6
Russia Alexei Kopeikin 183 32 50 82 68 -43 13 1 4
Russia Dmitri Lugin 232 35 46 81 81 -48 8 0 3
Russia Alexander Yunkov 186 38 38 76 104 -23 11 1 2
Russia Vyacheslav Litovchenko 316 33 41 74 85 -40 13 1 6

Team awards and honors[]

Winners[]

1st place, gold medalist(s) Motor Cup (České Budějovice) (1): 2019

Runners-up[]

2nd place, silver medalist(s) KHL Cup of Hope (1): 2013

References[]

  1. ^ "Amur Khabarovsk's profile". Kontinental Hockey League. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  2. ^ "Red Army hockey team [WCHL] statistics and history". www.hockeydb.com. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  3. ^ "Amur Khabarovsk Roster" (in Russian). www.hcamur.ru. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  4. ^ "Amur Khabarovsk team roster". www.khl.ru. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  5. ^ "Amur Khabarovsk All-Time leaders". quanthockey.com. 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-05-06.

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