The 12 Best Hockey Teams in the World Right Now

the site presents a subjective ranking of the best hockey teams in the world during the lockout.

Jyväskylä is not one of the wealthiest teams in its league (UP's budget is about 7 million euros) and is a typical coaching team, with its coach, Jyrki Aho, considered one of the most promising in the country. The attack in Jyväskylä is led by the familiar Eric Perrin and Ramzi Abid, which only emphasizes the meaning of the word “coaching,” as well as Rich Peverley from Boston, who decided to wait out the lockout in Finland. It is worth mentioning the presence of Tuomas Tarkka, Petr Hubacek and Jyrki Välivaara, well-known to Russian fans. In general, this Finnish club is in many ways similar to Brunhes, about which a little later.

11., AHL

Inclusion in the rating of “Oklahoma” is more of an advance than a reflection of the real picture. After all, the AHL season has just begun. But not including the Barons here would be blasphemy, given the presence of the youth super trio of Taylor Hall - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Jordan Eberle, as well as Magnus Päjarvi, Teemu Hartikainen and the good start of Justin Schultz, for whom Edmonton had to fight literally with the entire league . Last season, Oklahoma reached the conference finals, and this season, if the lockout drags on, they may well have their sights set on the Calder Cup.

Current championship position: 9th in the conference

10. , NLA (Switzerland)

Having almost been relegated to League B last season, the oldest and, by the way, not the richest NLA club (budget - about 12 million euros) started the season victoriously and is the undisputed leader in the championship, which sheltered the vast majority of North American NHL players during the lockout. “Geneva” itself limited itself to inviting Yannick Weber (Montreal) and Logan Couture (San Jose), and these moves are fully justified so far.

It is worth noting that Servette’s roster includes enough players who are known, so to speak, in narrow circles. Here are Brian Potier, and the naturalized Dan Fritsch, and Rico Fata, and Alexandre Picard, as well as Tobias Stefan, who is having a simply enchanting season. If Stefan continues in the same spirit, Chris McSorley, who has been working with the team for 12 years, risks reaching the final for the third time.

Current place in the championship: 1st

9. , Elitserien (Sweden)

Brynäs goalkeeper Johan Holmqvist. Photo: brynas.se

The current champion and at the same time one of the poorest (budget - about 7 million euros) Elitserien teams are second in the standings, despite the departure of the team's top scorer Jakob Silfverberg and the promising Johan Larsson, Sebastian Wennström and Matthias Ekholm, who went overseas, as well as Niklas Andersen, who moved to Severstal.

But the squad didn’t seem to notice the losses, which must first of all be associated with the figure of Tommy Jonsson - one of the most promising coaches in Sweden, the best coach of the Elitserien last season, who was his debut as head coach. We can, of course, remember some strengthening in the off-season (shout out to our old friend Johan Harju and Cody Franson from Toronto), note Johan Holmqvist, who is having a wonderful season, Zetterberg’s “heir” Kalle Jernkrok and the rising superstar Elias Lynholm, who has already gained 17 years of age 10 (4+6) points in 14 matches, but the main creator of Brynäs’ success is Jonsson. This team plays in such a way that, according to impressions, even the conditional “Detroit” would have problems with them.

Current place in the championship: 2nd

8. , KHL

The 2012 Gagarin Cup finalist lost Raimo Summanen in the offseason, who could lead the team with just the sight of a tablet, and the “hawks” somehow immediately became lost. But lately they have picked up a good pace, showing quite manageable play and good results.

While Tomas Zaborski is getting used to it, and Nikita Nikitin is not spoiling the mass, the Avangard management made a knight's move, inviting Sergei Kostitsyn for the duration of the lockout, with whom, by the way, the team's recent successes can be associated. However, even without him, Avangard remains a serious force in European hockey.

Current championship position: 5th in the conference

7. , AHL

As you know, in the offseason, Tampa exchanged farm clubs with Anaheim, so the Norfolk team, which had a record streak of 28 victories in the 2011/12 AHL regular season and eventually won the Calder Cup, moved almost its entire team to Syracuse, including coach John Cooper, who won bowl championships with every team he worked for. One has to think that this trick will also work for him at Syracuse, since the players are mostly familiar with a nice and extremely effective system of play.

Of the truly significant losses, it is worth noting only Trevor Smith, who moved to the Pittsburgh farm club, Alexander Picard, who signed a contract with Geneva, and Jaroslav Janusz, now playing in the KHL for Slovan. However, the additions are also good: the best goalkeeper of the SM-league, Riku Helenius, selected in the first round, Vladislav Namestnikov, and Dmitry Korobov, who is well known to us. Plus Brett Connolly, who spent the entire last season in the NHL, JT Wyman, who also signed up for the Bolts, and recent student JT Brown, who even managed to go to the 2012 World Cup as a member of the US national team.

6. , KHL

The two-time KHL champion has an excellent squad and could easily lead the standings, but, in his typical manner, is in no hurry to score points. However, there is no doubt that this is one of the strongest clubs in Europe. Even with one hostage of the lockout, who played only 3 matches, and a new coach, who, in general, is not entirely new.

Current championship position: 4th in the conference

5. , KHL

In the ranking of the best teams in the world, there simply cannot be a team that has the objectively best player in the world, even if he is not yet in optimal shape. But he's clearly getting closer to her. I remember that at the World Championship no one was able to find justice for Evgeni Malkin, and they are unlikely to find it in the KHL. Nikolai Kulemin and Sergei Gonchar, who also joined Magnitogorsk during the lockout, fit right into the already very serious team, and Paul Maurice, apparently, is one of those coaches who draw conclusions from local and not so failures.

4. , KHL

Despite the lack of teamwork among the hockey players, the revived team started the season quite cheerfully. And the addition of Semyon Varlamov, Dmitry Kulikov, Artem Anisimov only added touches to the playing picture of the Yaroslavl team. The character of one of the fastest teams in the KHL is in perfect order, and such a lineup is quite capable of claiming victory in any of the European championships, provided that they are competent coaching work, which so far seems to be just that.

Current place in the championship: 2nd in the conference.

3., KHL

The semi-finalist of the 2012 Gagarin Cup managed to avoid serious personnel losses in the off-season, and in September signed a full-fledged contract with Andrei Kostitsyn, who has a controversial reputation, but certainly strengthened the attack of the Chelyabinsk team. Plus, Evgeny Kuznetsov is getting closer to his design capacity, and Valery Belousov, whose rollback is still in fashion and very effective, has nothing to be particularly sad about.

Current championship position: 1st in conference

2., KHL

The current winner of the Gagarin Cup at least did not lose quality in the lineup in the new season and, in addition, strengthened during the lockout with Alexander Ovechkin, who should soon be joined by one of the best center forwards in the world, Nicklas Backstrom, who is excellent at finding Ovi with passes. Well, Oleg Znarok’s system of play, which is not conducive to entertainment, has long proven its worth at the KHL level, where Dynamo is now in first place in points.

Current championship position: 1st in conference

1. , KHL

The leader of our rating is also the leader of the KHL regular championship standings in terms of lost points. The already quite good lineup of army players for the duration of the lockout was replenished by Ilya Kovalchuk, Vladimir Tarasenko and Sergei Bobrovsky, plus Viktor Tikhonov once again returned to Russia, and the main, in the opinion of many, favorite of the 2012/13 season looks the way it should look the main favorite, easily dealing with most opponents due to the class of players alone.

Current championship position: 3rd in the conference

Canada is rightfully considered. However, despite the fact that this type of sports game appeared in Russia relatively recently, domestic teams today occupy enviable places.

in Russia

In the world of hockey she appeared at the turn of 1870-1880. The first hockey teams in Russia started appearing soon after. They just started playing with a ball on the grass. Neo official birthday hockey in Russia is considered to date back to 1899. On this day, the first match for the Russian ice hockey team took place in St. Petersburg. The match took place between the Russian "Sport" and England. Ended game with a score of 4:4 - the opponents played in a draw.

P They tried to reintroduce hockey in Russia since 1911, but for a long time this game did not take root in the vastness of the country and in the minds of citizens. The official birthday of hockey in Russia is December 22, 1946. Then open games took place in many cities of the USSR.

The year 1953 in the history of Russian hockey was marked by the entry of the Soviet national team to the international level. And already next yearThere was a victory over the Canadian team. With a score of 7:2, the USSR national team achieved the title of world leader in hockey.

Today, Russia holds a leading position and is among the top five worldwide. There are more than a hundred strong hockey clubs, but there are those that undoubtedly stand out. Some of the oldest and most confident are HC "Salavat Yulaev" and CSKA (Moscow).

Hockey team "Salavat Yulaev"

IN In 1959, the Motor team gathered in Bashkiria. That's when the story beganUfaHC"Salavat Yulaev" . However, the name “Motor” was renamed only in 1960. Almost immediately after its creation, the young Russian hockey team was included in the national team Soviet Union, to the championship.



TO bast developed quickly and maintained its position amongother Russian hockey teams.The first international match took place already in 1961, on December 30. The opponent of “Salavat Yulaev” was the German team.

U In 1989, a club of the same name was created.The club's most memorable scorer was V. Bykov, who scored 342 goals in fourteen seasons.

WITH Nowadays the hockey team “Salavat Yulaev” is not in the most confident position in the standings. However, there is great potential and every chance of success.

Hockey team CSKA

ABOUT bottom of the oldest teams -HCCSKA (Moscow). The beginning of your story hockey The team has been taking it since 1926, December 22. On that day, the players of this particular team opened the games throughout the Union.



TO team, like the club, a bunch of renamed several times, but the essence never changed. M Oskovsky CSKA has always been one of the strongest and most successful teams.

By tradition, CSKA has its own symbols, like all Russian hockey teams. Traditionally The players have a red star on their chest as a tribute to the USSR. And the team's mascot is, significantly, a horse. For a long time, the horse was an unofficial companion to all the team’s games, and only recently was it given full mascot rights.

For today day, according to the standings, the CSKA (Moscow) hockey team was located in the most optimal positions. Taking into account all the nuances, subtleties and tricks, you can safely make forecasts and bet on the team’s success. CSKA has always been able to use its advantages.

And his assistants, club managers, doctors and other service personnel. The main team itself consists of twenty or more players.

One club may own several teams playing in different leagues, a youth team, sports schools, a stadium and a training base.

In Russia

In Russia, the activities of any sports clubs are regulated by the federal law “On Physical Culture and Sports in the Russian Federation.” Sports clubs can be created by legal entities and individuals. At the same time, clubs can be assisted by executive authorities of any level through:

1. construction, reconstruction, repair of sports facilities and other sports facilities;
2. transfer for free use or long-term lease on preferential terms of premises, buildings, structures that are the property of the Russian Federation or constituent entities of the Russian Federation or municipal property;
3. provision of sports equipment and supplies;
4. providing other support in the manner and in cases established by regulatory legal acts of federal executive authorities, regulatory legal acts of state authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation or municipal legal acts.

Sports clubs operate at the expense of their own funds and other sources not prohibited by law. In Russia, funds for the maintenance of hockey clubs usually come from two sources - the regional budget and money from private companies (primarily the owner company). From 2012, budgetary financing of Russian clubs will most likely be prohibited. Particularly wealthy clubs can afford to build stadiums.

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HC "Dynamo Minsk"(Dinamo Minsk) - nicknames: “Bisons”, “Bisons”, “Bulls”, “Minskers”, “Dynamo”, “Minsk”.

Dynamo Minsk is currently the only representative of Belarus in the Kontinental Hockey League. The Dynamo-Minsk club was founded in 1948, and for the first few years the team played in the amateur leagues of the BSSR. In 1980, Dynamo made it to the USSR Major League, but the team was unable to gain a foothold there, relegated to class “A”. Eight years later, in 1988, the club again entered the Major League. In the early 1990s, due to lack of funds, the Dynamo sports society abandoned the hockey club. In 1993, the team received financial support from private individuals and passed into their hands. The club was renamed "Tivali". After the 1999/2000 season the team was disbanded. The team was revived in 2003. Dynamo received financial support from enterprises in the Minsk region, and the law enforcement agencies of Belarus acted as the founders of the club. In 2008, the team joined the newly born hockey league - the KHL. Despite the fact that quite interesting options “Partizan” and “Minsk Bisons” were proposed as a name for the team, the leadership of the FHRB still decided to preserve the traditional “Dynamo” brand. True, the name of the city in which it is based was added to the name of the team - Minsk. Dinamo-Minsk's nicknames "Bisons" and "Zubry" appeared in 2009, when the management decided to change the club's emblem in order not to pay for the use of the brand, the rights to which belong to the BFSO "Dynamo". Instead of the traditional letter "D", a bison appeared on the team logo, which is sometimes confused with a bison. The fans affectionately call the team "Bulls", and the nicknames "Dynamo" and "Minskers" are quite logical and do not require additional explanation.

HC "Dinamo Riga"(Dinamo Riga) - nicknames: “Rigans”, “Latvians”, “Riga”, “Dynamo”.

The Dynamo club, based in the capital of Latvia - Riga, was founded in 2008. Riga Dynamo is the sole representative of their country in the Kontinental Hockey League. The predecessor of the current Dynamo Riga is considered to be the masters club of the same name, formed back in 1946 to participate in the first USSR championship. The team changed its name very often, but for most of its existence it was called Dynamo. Moreover, under this name the club achieved its greatest success. In 1995, the Dynamo team was disbanded and the club ceased to exist. In 2008, a new hockey league was formed - the KHL, so it was decided to revive the club. That same year, the team spent its debut season in the newly formed league. The nicknames "Riga" and "Riga" are associated with the city in which the team is based. The team is called “Latvians” as a representative of Latvia. The nickname "Dynamo" is derived from "Dynamo".

HC "Jokerit"(Helsingin Jokerit) - nicknames: “Jokers”, “Helsinki Jokers”, “Clowns”, “Jesters”, “Jokers”.

The Jokerit club was founded in 1967. Based in the capital of Finland, Helsinki. He is currently the only representative of the “Country of a Thousand Lakes” in the KHL. In 2013, an agreement was signed to move the club to the Kontinental Hockey League, and in 2014 it was officially announced that the Jokers would join the KHL from the 2014/2015 season. Before joining the KHL, Jokerit played in the Finnish SM-League, where it became champion six times. The nickname "Jokers" is a translation of the word "Jokerit". In addition, the club’s emblem depicts a winking joker (joker). Sometimes the team is called "Clowns", but this is not true. The correct nickname for “Jokerita” is “Jokers”; the nicknames “Jesters” and “Jokers” are also acceptable.

HC "Medvescak"(Klub hokeja na ledu Medveščak) - nicknames: “Bears”, “Bears”, “Zagreb Bears”, “Bearcatchers”.

The Medvescak hockey team appeared in the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, in 1961, where it is still based. From 1961 to 1991 the club played in the YHL (Yugoslav Hockey League). In 1991, due to the fact that Croatia separated from Yugoslavia, the team began to play in the HHL (Croatian Hockey League). For one season (2008/2009), the club played in the Slohockey League. After a one-year stay in the Slohockey League, the team was admitted to the AHL (Austrian Hockey League), and played there until the end of the 2012/2013 season. In 2013, the club received the go-ahead from the KHL management to represent its country in the strongest league on the Eurasian continent. In the same year, Medvescak made its debut in the KHL with a home match against CSKA Moscow, in which it defeated the Army team with a score of 7:1. The team "Medvescak" is named after the district of the same name in Zagreb (Gornji Grad - Medvescak), one of the seventeen districts of the capital of Croatia. The Medvescak emblem depicts a bear grinning. The nickname of the Medvescak team is “Bears”, which is quite logical, as well as all derivatives of this word.

SKA"(SKA) - nicknames: “Army Men”, “Petersburgers”, “Army Men of St. Petersburg”, “Club from the banks of the Neva”, “Wallets”, “Moneybags”.

The SKA hockey club was born in 1946 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) under the name “House of Officers named after S.M. Kirov.” Two years later, the club was renamed LDO (Leningrad House of Officers) and bore this name until the end of the 1952/1953 season. In 1953, the current "SKA" became known as "ODO" (District House of Officers). In the 1957/1958 and 1958/1959 seasons the team played under the name "SKVO" (Sports Club of the Military District). And only in 1959 the club was renamed to the familiar “SKA” (Army Sports Club). From 1994 to 2006, the city in which the team is based was added to the name - "SKA St. Petersburg", but since the 2013/2014 season the club's name was again shortened to "SKA". In fact, the names of sports teams that are abbreviations (SKA, CSKA, etc.) are not quoted in quotation marks according to the rules, but many still put SKA in quotation marks. In fact, it's not that important. Everything is clear with the nickname “Army Men” - Army Sports Club. The team is sometimes called “Wallets” and “Moneybags”, because SKA is one of the richest teams in the Kontinental Hockey League.

HC Slovan(HC Slovan Bratislava) - nicknames: “Eagles”, “Eagles”, “Proud Eagles”, “Slovaks”, “Bratislavans”.

Hockey club "Slovan" is based in the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava. The club was founded in 1921 under the name CSK Bratislava. In 1939, the club's name was changed to Slovan. Since 1949, the club began to be called Sokol NV, but already in 1952 it was decided to return the team to its previous name - Slovan. Before joining the KHL, the team from Bratislava played in the CHL (Czechoslovak Hockey League), and later in the SHL (Slovak Hockey League) and the Slovak Extraliga. In 2012, the club submitted an application to join the KHL, which was approved by the league leadership. Slovan began playing in the KHL in the 2012/2013 season. The Slovan emblem features a proud eagle in profile, hence the nicknames “Eagles”, “Eagles” and “Proud Eagles”. The nicknames "Slovaks" and "Bratislavans" refer to the country and city the team represents.

HC "Spartak"(Spartak Moscow) - nicknames: “Red-White”, “Spartak”, “Spartacists”, “Gladiators”.

The Moscow hockey club "Spartak" was founded in 1946. Throughout its history, the club has been based in the capital of Russia. "Spartak" is one of the oldest hockey clubs and is one of the four Russian teams that took part in the first USSR hockey championship. The “red-whites” have been playing in the Kontinental Hockey League since its birth - since 2008. Starting from the 2011/2012 season, the team could not reach the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup for three years in a row. In the 2013/2014 season, the “red-whites” experienced serious financial difficulties. The Central Bank revoked the license of Spartak's general sponsor, Investbank, as a result of which the hockey club was virtually left without funding, was declared bankrupt, and the team was dissolved. Having failed to find sponsorship in the off-season, the club's management and the Kontinental Hockey League agreed that HC Spartak would skip the 2014/2015 season. At the same time, the league management assured the team and fans that it would not allow the great club to disappear, and would provide it with all possible assistance so that in a year Spartak would return to the KHL again. The promise was kept, and already in the 2015/2016 season the club again became part of the Kontinental Hockey League. Historically, the colors of Spartak are red and white; the nickname “red and white” is associated specifically with the club colors. The club is also called “Spartak”, “Spartak” - these nicknames are derived from “Spartak”. The nickname "Gladiators" is a reference to the slave gladiator Spartacus, whose name the hockey club bears.

HC "Vityaz"(Vityaz") - nicknames: “Vityazis”, “Wars”, “Bogatyrs”, “Vitki”.

A hockey team appeared in Podolsk back in the 1960s. It was called "Torpedo" and existed until 1990, after which it was disbanded. For six years there was no professional hockey in the city at all. Big hockey came to the region again when, in 1996, the Vityaz sports club was created on the basis of two cities - Podolsk and Chekhov. The club spent the 1996/1997 season in the championship of the Moscow region, and was based in the Venyukovo microdistrict of the city of Chekhov, which is 52 kilometers from the capital. In the 1997/1998 and 1998/1999 seasons the team played in the RHL. In 1999, the team made its debut in the Major League, and at the end of the tournament won a ticket to the Super League. In 2000, the club changed its place of registration, moving to the city of Podolsk, Moscow region, where the construction of a new hockey palace had just been completed. The debut in the elite was unsuccessful, and the team again went to the Major League, where they spent the next four years. After the 2003/2004 season, the team returned to Chekhov, and in 2005, Vityaz managed to return to the elite of Russian hockey. In 2008, the club became a member of the KHL. At the end of the 2012/2013 season, the Vityaz hockey club, after ten years in Chekhov, returned to the city of Podolsk, where it is currently based. The main reason for the next move was the insufficient capacity of the ice arena in Chekhov. All nicknames of HC "Vityaz" are directly related to the name of the team ("Wars", "Bogatyrs"). The nickname "Vitki" was invented by the fans, and is derived from "Vityaz" - "Vitya" - "Viti" - "Vitki".

HC "Dynamo Moscow"(Dinamo Moscow) - nicknames: “Dynamo”, “Blue and White”, “Cops”, “Garbage”.

The hockey club "Dynamo" was founded in 1946 in the capital of Russia, Moscow. "Dynamo Moscow" is the first "Canadian" hockey team in Russian history. Back in 1932, football players of the sports society, who played “Russian” hockey in the winter, participated first in friendly and later in official ice hockey matches against the German team “Fichte”. “Russian” bandy, also called bandy, was different from ice hockey, but Dynamo beat the German team in the first official game, defeating Fichte with a score of 17:3. HC Dynamo is a team that is the owner of a unique achievement: champion titles of the USSR, MHL, CIS, European Champions Cup, Russia and KHL (Gagarin Cup). No club has ever achieved anything like this. The Blue and White have been playing in the Kontinental Hockey League since its founding (2008). In 2010, due to financial problems at Dynamo Moscow, the team management decided to merge the two clubs HC "MVD" and HC "Dynamo" into one. Thus, on April 30, 2010, a new team appeared, UHC Dynamo (United Hockey Club), which became the legal successor of the Dynamo hockey club. In the summer of 2012, it was decided to abandon the “United” prefix. The patrons of the Dynamo sports society, including the hockey team, were law enforcement agencies, in particular the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministry of Internal Affairs). That is why the nicknames “Garbage” and “Cops” stuck to the team. The nickname "Dynamo" is a derivative of "Dynamo". The nickname "Blue and White" is a reference to the team's club colors.

HC Lokomotiv"(Lokomotiv) - nicknames: “Railroad Workers”, “Loco”, “Locomotives”, “Steam Locomotives”.

The history of the Lokomotiv hockey club was divided into “before” and “after” on September 7, 2011, when the entire staff of the Yaroslavl club, as well as the team’s coaching staff, died in a plane crash. But first things first. The hockey club "Lokomotiv" was founded in 1959, but the club was then called "YAMZ" (Yaroslavl Motor Plant). In the 1959/1960 season, the YaMZ team had the honor of representing the Yaroslavl region at the RSFSR championship. However, YaMZ was not the first club in the region. Before him, the honor of the glorious city of Yaroslavl was defended by the Lokomotiv railway team, which was disbanded in 1951 and has no relation to the current Loko, as well as Spartak and the team of the Yaroslavl tire plant Khimik. Before the 1963/1964 season, YaMZ was renamed Trud, and a year later the team received the name Motor. In the 1965/1966 season, the team was given a new name - “Torpedo”, under which the Yaroslavl team played in the Second, First, and then in the Higher League of the USSR Championship. From 1992 to 1996, Torpedo played in the MHL (International Hockey League). In 1996, the MHL was disbanded, and Torpedo took gold in the Russian championship this season. In 2000, the team from the city of Yaroslavl was taken under the wing of Russian Railways, and the club changed its name to Lokomotiv. In the 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 seasons, Lokomotiv became the Champion of Russia, and in the last Super League championship in history, the railway workers reached the final, but lost in the decisive series to the Ufa Salavat Yulaev. In 2008, Lokomotiv became part of the newborn Kontinental Hockey League, which replaced the Russian Super League. On September 7, 2011, near Yaroslavl, immediately after takeoff from Tunoshna airport, a Yak-42D plane crashed, on which the local hockey team Lokomotiv went to the capital of Belarus, Minsk, where they were supposed to fight with the Dynamo club. There were 45 people on board the plane: 37 passengers and 8 crew members. 43 people died at the scene of the disaster; railway striker Alexander Galimov died on the morning of September 12 at the Institute of Surgery named after. Vinshevsky. The only person who managed to survive the disaster was flight attendant Alexander Sizov. Already on September 10, 2011, the team management decided that HC Lokomotiv would skip the 2011/2012 Kontinental Hockey League season and spend it in the VHL (Major Hockey League) with a youth team, and in the 2012/2013 season it would return to the KHL. In 2012, Lokomotiv returned to the KHL. The League leadership stated that the “railroad workers” will receive a guaranteed place in the playoffs, regardless of what place the team takes at the end of the regular season. However, the club refused such privileges. In the first season after returning, Lokomotiv reached the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup, but lost in the first round series to Severstal Cherepovets. The hockey club "Lokomotiv" has the nicknames "Loco", "Locomotives", "Railroad Workers", "Steam Locomotives", and it is quite clear why.

HC "Severstal"(Severstal) - nicknames: “Cherepovites”, “Miners”, “Steelworkers”, “Seva”, “Metallurgists”, “Industrialists”.

The birthday of Cherepovets hockey is considered to be December 18, 1955, when the first match took place on the newly built hockey rink, in which the team of the city of Cherepovets and “Torpedo” from the Hero City of Volgograd fought. In 1956, the Stroitel team was founded in Cherepovets. She competed in the championship of the Volgograd region, where in the first year she became a champion. Since 1957, “Builder” began to compete in republican competitions. Since 1959, the team began playing in the RSFSR championship under the name “Metallurg”, and was called that until 1994, when it finally became “Severstal”. The team played in the Super League from 1992 until 2008, when the Kontinental Hockey League was formed. The Severstal team is named after the steel and mining company PJSC Severstal of the same name, which is the main sponsor of the club. The nickname "Cherepovchane" refers to the region in which the team is based. The nicknames "Miners", "Industrialists", "Steelworkers", and sometimes the team is called "Metallurgists", refer to the history of the name and the activities of the team's main sponsor.

HC "Sochi"(Sochi) - nicknames: “Southerners”, “Leopards”, “Predators”, “Cats”, “Sochi residents”.

The hockey club in the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, appeared in 2014, when the KHL management decided to expand the league. Previously, a large-scale sports infrastructure was built in the city for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, including the future home arena of the Sochi hockey club - the Bolshoi Ice Palace (12,000 seats). HC Sochi has been playing in the Kontinental Hockey League since the 2014/2015 season. In their first season in the KHL, the Sochi team reached the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup, but lost to the Moscow “CSKA” team in the first round series (4:0). The Sochi hockey club is the only representative of the southern region of Russia in the KHL, so it is quite symbolic that the team from the city of Sochi received the same name. HC Sochi received the nicknames “Leopards”, “Cats” and “Predators” because the club’s symbol is a leopard, the image of which is presented on the team logo.

HC "Torpedo"(Torpedo) - nicknames: “Torpedo men”, “Deer”, “Car factory workers”.

Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo was born in 1946 in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), and began performing in the USSR championships in the 1947/1948 season. The creation of a hockey team in Gorky is mainly associated with the popularization of “Canadian” hockey in the USSR. The All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports decided to hold the national ice hockey championship in the 1946/1947 season. The city of Gorky, which was represented by the team of the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ), joined the number of participating cities in the tournament in the 1947/1948 season. At the beginning of 1947, the first official hockey tournament was held in Gorky - the City Cup, in which the Gorky team won, and at the end of the year the Torpedo team took part in the USSR Championship. In 1961, Torpedo won silver medals at the national ice hockey championship. Before the team became part of the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008, Torpedo played in the MHL, RHL and Russian championships. The club did not achieve serious success in any league, but Torpedo was always famous for its fighting spirit and character, and was known as a fighting club. In 1983 and 1985, the team was awarded the “Thunderstorm of Authority” prize, which was awarded to the team that took the most points from the championship winning teams. The owner of the Torpedo hockey club is GAZ Group, a Russian automobile manufacturing company whose headquarters are located in Nizhny Novgorod. The logo of the hockey club depicts a deer, the same as on the GAZ logo. Hence the nickname of HC "Torpedo" - "Deer". Another nickname for the team is “Avtozavodtsy”, from the same opera.