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Dinamo-Minsk
Дина́мо-Минск
Full name HC Dinamo-Minsk Founded 1976 Based In Minsk Arena Minsk-Arena
(Capacity: 15,000)Division Tarasov Conference Western Team Colors Owner(s) 
BFSO DinamoGM Alexei TorbinHead Coach 
Marek SýkoraCaptain 
Jaroslav ObšutAffiliates Dinamo-Shinnik (RUS) Website HC Dinamo-Minsk - For other sports clubs named Dinamo Minsk, see Dinamo Minsk.
Dinamo Minsk (Russian: Дина́мо-Минск, Belarusian: Дынама-Мінск) is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs (Gagarin Cup) only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season.
Jaroslav Obšut is the current captain of the team, with his alternates being Geoff Platt and Andrei Mikhalev.
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History
The club was formed in 1976, played 5 seasons in the Soviet Top Ice Hockey League, best result was the 10th place in 1989/90 season. Dinamo-Minsk was renamed as Tivali Minsk in 1993 and four times became a champion of the Belarusian Championship in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 2000. Tivali was disbanded in 2000. Dinamo-Minsk re-emerged in 2003 and won champion title and Belarus Cup twice.
On March, 26, 2008, the KHL confirmed the Belarusian club's inclusion in the Bobrov Division. Dinamo-Minsk started to play on the ice of Minsk Palace of sports and was relocated to the newly build Minsk-Arena in December 2009. The first head coach of the Belarusian club was Paul Gardner, who was dismissed until the championship had begun. The next one became Jim Hughes, a protege of previous Belarus national team head coach Curt Fraser. But after the first twelve games the team came down next to the last place and soon Jim Hughes was dismissed. New vacancy was taken by Russian specialist Vasili Spiridonov whose efforts were not enough to raise Dinamo-Minsk from the bottom of the tournament table. The club became the 22nd out of 24 teams.
The next season team began under command of Glen Hanlon, who brought the Belarus national team to the sixth place at WC2006 in Riga. The team roster was fulfilled with world famous players Ville Peltonen and Ossi Väänänen, also one of best the Belarus goalkeepers Andrei Mezin was employed by HC Dinamo-Minsk. Season of 2009/2010 was alike to the previous. Team hadn't showed good result and Glen Hanlon was substituted by head coach of HK Homiel. Dinamo-Minsk finished at the 17th spot in the KHL, while missing the play-offs, but still managed to win Spengler Cup under the guidance of Alexander Andrievsky.
Season 2010/2011 became the best season in KHL history of Dinamo-Minsk. The new head coach of the team became Marek Sýkora. Pan Sýkora is widely thought as one of the best coaches of Kontinental Hockey League. He brought Metallurg Magnitogorsk to the final games in 2005 and a rookie of the KHL Avtomobilist to KHL play-offs in 2010. Dinamo-Minsk under his command managed not only to get into the play-offs, but stayed in one step from the Western Conference semi-finals when Lokomotiv prevailed in the decisive game seven of the series. Also Dinamo-Minsk was named the most attended club in the KHL after the 2010-2011 season.
The new season of Dinamo-Minsk was to have begun on September, 8, 2011 versus Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. However, on September 7, 2011, a plane carrying the Lokomotiv team to the game in Minsk crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all of the team's roster. Four days later, a memorial ceremony took place at the Minsk-Arena, with all Minsk players paying tributes to each one of the victims.
Honors
Champions
- Belarusian Extraliga Championship (1): 2007
- Belarus Cup (2): 2005, 2006
- Spengler Cup (1): 2009
Runners Up
- Belarusian Extraliga Championship (1): 2006
Players
Current roster
Updated November 2, 2011.[1][2]
Franchise scoring leaders (KHL)
These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history while being a KHL club. Figures are updated after each completed KHL regular season.
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; bold = current Dinamo player
Points
Player Pos GP G A Pts P/G 
Geoff PlattLW 123 46 36 82 0.67 Andrei MikhalevC/LW 162 30 22 52 0.32 
Hannes HyvönenRW 57 28 19 47 0.82 Sergei DemaginLW 89 27 20 47 0.53 Alexander KulakovRW 130 20 27 47 0.36 Dmitry MeleshkoRW 119 22 24 46 0.39 Yaroslav ChuprisLW 115 12 24 36 0.31 
Konstantin GlazachevLW 52 12 23 35 0.67 Andrei AntonovD 116 8 25 33 0.28 Peter PodhradskýD 48 8 22 30 0.63 Goals
Player Pos G Geoff PlattLW 46 Andrei MikhalevC/LW 30 Hannes HyvönenRW 28 Sergei DemaginLW 27 Dmitry MeleshkoRW 22 Alexander KulakovRW 20 
Serhiy VarlamovC 15 Jozef StümpelC 12 Konstantin GlazachevLW 12 Yaroslav ChuprisLW 12 Assists
Player Pos A Geoff PlattLW 36 Alexander KulakovRW 27 Andrei AntonovD 25 Yaroslav ChuprisLW 24 Dmitry MeleshkoRW 24 Konstantin GlazachevLW 23 Peter PodhradskýD 22 Andrei MikhalevC/LW 22 Ville PeltonenRW 20 Sergei DemaginLW 20 Franchise records
Regular season
- Most goals in a season: Geoff Platt, 26 (2009-10)
- Most assists in a season: Konstantin Glazachev, 23 (2010-11)
- Most points in a season: Geoff Platt, 44 (2009-10)
- Most penalty minutes in a season: Duvie Westcott, 146 (2009-10)
- Most points in a season, defenseman: Peter Podhradský, 30 (2010-11)
Playoffs
- Most goals in a playoff season: Geoff Platt, 4 (2010-11)
- Most assists in a playoff season: Peter Podhradský, 6 (2010-11)
- Most points in a playoff season: Peter Podhradský, 8 (2010-11)
- Most penalty minutes in a playoff season: Jordan Henry, 33 (2010-11)
- Most points in a playoff season, defenseman: Peter Podhradský, 8 (2010–11)
Hat-tricks
1. Dmitry Meleshko, 11-21-2010 at Metallurg Magnitogorsk - needed 43.26 to complete the feat
2. Zbyněk Irgl, 11-22-2011 at Barys Astana - needed 31.48 to complete the feat
Season-by-season KHL record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, SOW = Shootout Wins, SOL = Shootout Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Season GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Pts GF GA Finish Playoffs 2008–09 56 12 1 2 5 2 34 49 124 197 22nd place Did not qualify 2009–10 56 17 1 5 2 0 31 65 139 164 6th, Bobrov Division Did not qualify 2010–11 54 17 3 5 5 2 22 74 150 155 4th, Tarasov Division Lost in Western Conference Quarterfinals, 3-4 (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) References
- ^ "HC Dinamo Minsk Team Roster" (in Russian). www.dinamo.by. http://hcdinamo.by/team/players/. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
- ^ "Dinamo Minsk team roster". www.khl.ru. http://en.khl.ru/clubs/dinamo_mn. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
External links
- (Russian) Dinamo Minsk Official website
Kontinental Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference Bobrov Division Lev PopradTarasov Division Dinamo MinskKharlamov Division Yugra Khanty-MansiyskChernyshev Division TopicsSeasons2008–09 • 2009–10 • 2010–11 • 2011–12Junior drafts2009 • 2010 • 2011Games and CupsAll-Star Game • Gagarin Cup • KHL Conference Finals • Continental Cup • Lokomotiv Cup • Russian Championship • KHL vs NHLSee alsoTeam changes • Potential expansion • List of goal scoring champions • List of scoring champions • List of territorial draft picks • Rivalries in the KHLCategories:- HC Dinamo Minsk
- Ice hockey teams in Belarus
- Kontinental Hockey League teams
- Sport in Minsk
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