KHL - Bobrov Division - ХК Спартак Москва

One of the sections of the Spartak Moscow sports club, HC Spartak Moscow was established in 1946. They have won the Soviet Championship four times, and have also had European-level success in the Spengler Cup, which they have won five times. Unfortunately for their fans, the financial state of the team has deteriorated since the beginning of 2006. After the season, a Russian businessman and huge Spartak fan, Vadim Melkov, volunteered to find suitable sponsorship for his favorite team. After negotiations, the Government of Moscow agreed to cover all the team debts. Some preliminary agreements about team sale were achieved as well. However, Melkov died during the S7 Airlines plane crash of July 9, 2006. All the deal proposals were cancelled. After a month of struggling to improve the financial situation, it was decided by Spartak management to disband the team for a year. They returned and played in the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League up to and including the 2013–14 season. However, the team did not participate in the KHL last season because of financial issues once again. They have returned however ahead of the 2015-16 season and have taken over the roster of Atlant. They have also moved out of their old Sokolniki Arena and into Dynamo's old Luzhniki Minor Arena. Former Pittsburgh Penguins Center, German Titov is currently Spartak's coach, while former Detroit Red Wing Star Slava Kozlov, is also part of the coaching set-up, having played for Atlant last season.

Record
KHL:
2008-09 - 7th
2009-10 - 7th
2010-11 - 13th
2011-12 - 19nd
2012-13 - 23rd
2013-14 - 23rd
2014-15 - did not enter

72	forward	Alyoshin Yegor	06.02.1992	Russia	30.04.2017
-	forward	Andreyev Savva	24.01.1997	Russia
85	defense	Antonov Andrei	27.04.1985	Russia	30.04.2016
68	forward	Bodrov Evgeny	08.01.1988	Russia	30.04.2016
-	defense	Borunov Pavel	06.02.1996	Russia
37	defense	Dyblenko Yaroslav	28.12.1993	Russia	30.04.2017
35	goaltender	Engren Atte	19.02.1988	Finland
5	defense	Genoway Charles	20.12.1986	Canada
97	defense	Gilroy Matthew	20.07.1984	USA
18	defense	Grishin Alexei	28.09.1988	Russia
-	forward	Gurin Valery	29.12.1996	Russia
-	forward	Gusev Alexei	05.01.1996	Russia
35	goaltender	Ivannikov Evgeny	29.04.1991	Russia
-	forward	Klechkin Sergei	21.02.1996	Russia
13	forward	Klimenko Gleb	28.07.1983	Russia	30.04.2016
-	forward	Kondratyev Stanislav	14.02.1996	Russia
24	defense	Korobov Dmitry	12.03.1989	Belarus	30.04.2016
-	forward	Kruglikov Ivan	16.08.1996	Russia
8	forward	Krutov Alexei	01.02.1984	Russia
-	forward	Kudryavtsev Yegor	08.10.1996	Russia
80	forward	Levitsky Igor	04.08.1993	Russia	30.04.2017
-	goaltender	Makarov Andrei	20.04.1993	Russia
25	forward	Mereskin Alexander	03.12.1987	Russia
4	defense	Novopashin Vitaly	28.09.1978	Russia	30.04.2016
-	defense	Orlov Maxim	03.04.1996	Russia
-	defense	Pelevin Alexander	15.02.1996	Russia
15	forward	Potapov Maxim	25.05.1980	Russia	30.04.2016
-	forward	Pushkaryov Pavel	18.03.1996	Russia
-	forward	Radil Lukas	05.08.1990	Czech Republic
29	forward	Radulov Igor	23.08.1982	Russia	30.04.2016
-	forward	Remov Alexander	07.06.1994	Russia	30.04.2017
15	forward	Shafigulin Grigory	13.01.1985	Russia	30.04.2016
-	forward	Shashkov Gleb	13.04.1996	Russia
25	forward	Shiafotdinov Kamil	03.10.1994	Russia
96	forward	Shmelyov Sergei	28.08.1993	Russia	30.04.2017
-	defense	Skhodtsev Roman	21.03.1997	Russia
40	defense	Sorokin Vsevolod	29.10.1993	Russia
78	defense	Stulov Dmitry	02.01.1994	Russia	30.04.2017
2	defense	Tatalin Roman	19.11.1992	Russia	30.04.2016
17	forward	Voronin Artyom	22.07.1991	Russia	30.04.2017
-	forward	Wellman Casey	18.10.1987	USA
91	forward	Yashin Oleg	03.12.1990	Russia	30.04.2017
-	forward	Zatsepilin Vitaly	15.06.1994	Russia

Arena
Sokolniki Arena or Sokolniki Sports Palace is located in the Sokolniki District of the city, a fifteen-minute walk from Sokolniki metro station, right by Sokolniki Park. Initially it was an outdoor skating rink, roofed in 1973 during the preparations for the 1973 Summer Universiade. It has a capacity of 5,000.
The Sokolniki Sports Palace was a venue of handball tournament for the 1980 Summer Olympics, including the final. It was the home arena of the HC Spartak Moscow ice hockey team until last week. There is a small practice rink located just to the east of the main arena. On March 10, 1975, at a friendly match between Soviet and Canadian youth hockey teams at the Sokolniki Arena, at least twenty people were killed in a stampede after the lights went out.

Luzhniki Minor Arena
Formerly, the Minor Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium; [Малая спортивная арена Лужники] has an 8,700 capacity that is part of the Luzhniki Sports Complex. The Arena was built in 1956 in the USSR. It hosted volleyball competitions during the 1980 Summer Olympics. It also hosted events of the 1973 Summer Universiade, 1986 Goodwill Games, Spartakiads of the Peoples of the USSR and others. The arena was the home to Dynamo Moscow from 2000-2015. Spartak have now moved in but Dynamo have made sure to take their cat with them:
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