KHL - Tarasov Division - ХК Локомотив

Hockey Club Lokomotiv (ХК Локомотив), also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is based in the city of Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator.
The team has been known previously by several different names:

• YaMZ Yaroslavl (1959–1963)
• Trud Yaroslavl (1963–1964)
• Motor Yaroslavl (1964–1965)
• Torpedo Yaroslavl (1965–2000)
• Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (2000–present)

Arena 2000
(Универсальный Культурно-Спортивный Комплекс Арена-2000) opened in 2001 and holds approximately 9,000 people. It is also used for concerts, exhibitions and as a skating rink. The chairman of the International Ice Hockey Federation called it "the world's best multisports center in its size class." The first game in Arena 2000 took place on October 12, 2001, with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl posting a 3:1 win over HC Lada Togliatti. It hosted the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championships.




The team generally played in the Second League of the Class "A" group during the Soviet era, being promoted to the First League of Class "A" for the 1983–84 season. Known as Torpedo Yaroslavl at that time, the team enjoyed moderate success under head coach Sergei Alekseyevich Nikolaev. Never a powerful club during the Soviet era, the team became a consistent winner with the creation of the Russian Superleague (RSL) following the collapse of the Soviet Union, winning their first RSL championship in 1997 under coach Petr Vorobiev. The club moved from Avtodizel Arena to the new Arena 2000 early in the 2001–02 season, and won consecutive league championships in 2002 and 2003 under Czech head coach Vladimír Vujtek, Sr. Vujtek left the club after the 2002–03 season for a lucrative contract offer from rival Ak Bars Kazan. Lokomotiv have not been able to replicate their success since that time, but remained a perennial contender in the RSL and the later KHL.
On 7 September 2011, the Lokomotiv club was to travel to Minsk for their first game of the 2011–12 KHL season when the airplane they were in crashed in a botched take-off from Tunoshna Airport, killing all of the team's roster (except forward Maxim Zyuzyakin, who was not on the flight), all coaching staff (except goaltending coach Jorma Valtonen, not on the flight) and four players from the Loko 9 juniors squad of the Minor Hockey League (MHL). Of the 45 passengers and crew on board, only flight engineer Alexander Sizov and 26-year-old Lokomotiv forward Alexander Galimov survived the initial crash. Galimov, who had been with the team since 2004, was conscious and had burns to 90 percent of his body, but died five days later in a hospital in Moscow.
Prior to the crash, the team played nine pre-season games, finishing with a 7–2 record. On 3 September, in Lokomotiv's last pre-season game, at home against Torpedo, Galimov scored the team's last pre-crash goal in their 5-2 victory.
In the aftermaths of the crash, KHL president Alexander Medvedev announced that a disaster draft will be held to allow Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to ice a team for the 2011-2012 season. However, on 10 September 2011, the team announced its intention not to participate in the 2011-2012 KHL season, opting to play in the Russian Major League (VHL) for one season before returning to the KHL. Former coach Petr Vorobiev returned to the team as its head coach for the VHL season.
This is the second plane accident in Russia involving a hockey team; in 1950, the entire VVS Moscow team were killed in an air disaster near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg).

2012–13 season

On 9 April 2012, Tom Rowe, formerly an assistant coach with the Carolina Hurricanes, signed on as the team's new Head Coach. For the 2012–13 KHL season, Lokomotiv added former National Hockey League players Viktor Kozlov, Niklas Hagman, Staffan Kronwall, Curtis Sanford, Sami Lepistö and Vitaly Vishnevskiy. Vishnevskiy previously played for the club from 2008 to 2010. Active Florida Panthers player Dmitri Kulikov signed on to play with Lokomotiv during the NHL lockout.

Russia:
Champions (3) - 1997, 2002, 2003;
Runners-up – 2008.

KHL

Gagarin Cup (1): 2009
Russian Superleague (3): 1998, 1999, 2005
IIHF Continental Cup (1): 2003
Spengler Cup (1): 2003

KHL:
2008-09 - 2nd
2009-10 - 4th
2010-11 - 3rd
2011-12 - did not enter
2012-13 - 10th
2013-14 - 3rd
2014-15 - 10th

Current Roster

40	forward	Apalkov Daniil	01.01.1992	Russia	30.04.2017
29	forward	Averin Yegor	25.08.1989	Russia
-	forward	Barkov Alexander	02.09.1995	Finland
66	goaltender	Belov Sergei	24.08.1993	Russia	30.04.2016
-	defense	Cherepanov Nikita	19.11.1995	Russia	30.04.2017
26	forward	Enlund Jonas	03.11.1987	Finland
72	forward	Galimov Emil	09.05.1992	Russia	30.04.2017
4	defense	Gavrikov Vladislav	21.11.1995	Russia	30.04.2017
77	defense	Gorokhov Ilya	23.08.1977	Russia
4	defense	Grigoryev Mikhail	01.02.1991	Russia
6	defense	Hersley Patrik	23.06.1986	Sweden
71	forward	Kapustin Kirill	08.02.1993	Russia	30.04.2018
98	forward	Kartayev Vladislav	10.02.1992	Russia	30.04.2017
12	forward	Khlopotov Vadim	22.04.1994	Russia
2	defense	Koledov Pavel	20.09.1994	Russia
20	goaltender	Kolesnik Vitaly	20.08.1979	Russia	30.04.2016
17	forward	Konkov Sergei	30.05.1982	Russia	30.04.2017
47	forward	Kontiola Petri	04.10.1984	Finland	30.04.2016
39	forward	Korenev Ilya	10.02.1995	Russia
27	defense	Kronwall Staffan	10.09.1982	Sweden	30.04.2016
-	forward	Lebedev Alexander	30.07.1994	Russia
56	defense	Mahukhov Roman	11.03.1994	Russia
29	forward	Maltsev Dmitry	20.01.1991	Russia
54	forward	Mosalyov Denis	28.02.1986	Russia
35	goaltender	Murygin Alexei	16.11.1986	Russia
12	forward	Novotny Jiri	12.08.1983	Czech Republic	30.04.2016
33	defense	Pashnin Mikhail	11.05.1989	Russia
-	forward	Petrakov Ivan	28.02.1994	Russia
9	forward	Platt Geoff	10.07.1985	Belarus	30.04.2016
-	defense	Rafikov Rushan	15.05.1995	Russia	30.04.2017
89	forward	Romantsev Danil	05.06.1993	Russia
-	forward	Teravainen Teuvo	11.09.1994	Finland
5	defense	Vishnevsky Vitaly	18.03.1980	Russia	30.04.2016
-	forward	Zibanejad Mika	18.04.1993	Sweden

36

forward

Sigaryov Andrei

10.03.1993

Russia