Dinamo Riga (current)

Infobox KHL team
clubname = Dinamo


fullname = Dinamo Riga
nickname =
founded = 2008
dissolved =
based_in = Riga, Latvia
arena = Arena Riga
capacity = 10,300
league = KHL 2008-Present
division = Kharlamov
conference =
history =
team_color = White, Red, Silver
owner = Itera Latvija, Guntis Ulmanis, Viesturs Koziols, Aigars Kalvītis, Aldis Pauniņš, Guntis Rāvis, Juris Savickis
gm = flagicon|LAT Normunds Sējējs
head_coach = flagicon|SVK Július Šupler
captain = flagicon|LAT Aleksejs Širokovs
honors =
affiliates = HK Riga 2000
website = [http://www.dinamoriga.eu DinamoRiga.eu]

Dinamo Riga is an ice hockey club, based in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in April 7, 2008 as a successor of former hockey team with the same name which ceased to exist in 1995. It will be playing in the Kontinental Hockey League. The club owners are Itera Latvija, Guntis Ulmanis (5th President of Latvia), Viesturs Koziols (former director of Riga 2000), Aigars Kalvītis (former Prime Minister of Latvia), Aldis Pauniņš, Guntis Rāvis and Juris Savickis. Kirovs Lipmans (the incumbent president of Latvian Hockey Federation) was also one of the founders, but he announced leaving this project shortly after the founding of Dinamo Riga.

Július Šupler will be the head coach of Dinamo Riga and he will be assisted by Slovakian Miroslav Miklošovič and Latvian Artis Ābols.

HK Riga 2000 of Belarusian Extraliga and Latvian Hockey League is going to be the farm club of Dinamo.

Arturs Irbe will be the goaltending coach for the team.

On July 30, 2008, Head Coach Július Šupler announced that the team would be captained by Aleksejs Širokovs and the assistants will be Matt Ellison and Atvars Tribuncovs. [ [http://www.translate.ru/url/tran_url.asp?lang=ru&direction=re&template=General&transliterate=&autotranslate=on&url=http://allhockey.ru/news/33964/ Riga: the captain of a team and his assistants are certain ] ]

Roster

Current Roster as of September 2, 2008. [ [http://www.dinamoriga.lv/dinamo/komanda Official Roster on DinamoRiga.lv] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.dinamoriga.lv Official website] lv icon
* [http://www.dinamoriga.eu International version of the official website]