KHL - Bobrov Division - Дина́мо-Минск

The origins of the club begin in 1966, where the original Dinamo played 5 seasons in the Soviet Top Ice Hockey League, with its highest finish being 10th place in the 1989/90 season. Dinamo 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 was founded in 2003, taking the name of the historic club, 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 built 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 protégé 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 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 goaltenders 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. 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.
Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs (Gagarin Cup) three times: in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2014-15 KHL seasons. The team hasn't won a single round of the Gagarin Cup yet, losing in all three series. Alexei Kalyuzhny is the current captain of the team, with his alternates being Alexander Kulakov and Jonathan Cheechoo.
Record
KHL:
2008-09 - 22nd
2009-10 - 19th
2010-11 - 16th
2011-12 - 13th
2012-13 - 19th
2013-14 - 26th
2014-15 - 9th


Roster

88	defense	Badun Alexei	30.08.1989	Belarus	30.04.2017
55	defense	Bailen Nick	12.12.1989	USA	30.04.2018
-	goaltender	Belinsky Vitaly	27.11.1989	Belarus	30.04.2016
18	forward	Cheechoo Jonathan	15.07.1980	Canada	30.04.2016
13	forward	Drozd Sergei	14.04.1990	Belarus	30.04.2016
10	forward	Ellison Matt	08.12.1983	Canada	30.04.2016
12	defense	Filichkin Andrei	24.09.1987	Belarus	30.04.2016
53	goaltender	Glass Jeff	19.11.1985	Canada	30.04.2016
89	defense	Goroshko Oleg	19.11.1989	Belarus	30.04.2016
13	defense	Gunderson Ryan	16.08.1985	USA	30.04.2016
17	forward	Kalyuzhny Alexei	13.06.1977	Russia	30.04.2016
69	goaltender	Karnaukhov Mikhail	22.02.1994	Belarus	30.04.2017
-	defense	Kazakevich Pavel	28.10.1993	Belarus	30.04.2017
19	forward	Komarov Nikita	28.06.1988	Russia	30.04.2016
25	defense	Krajicek Lukas	11.03.1983	Czech Republic	30.04.2017
11	forward	Kulakov Alexander	15.05.1983	Belarus	30.04.2017
7	forward	Linglet Charles	22.06.1982	Belarus	30.04.2016
9	forward	Lopachuk Stanislav	16.02.1992	Belarus	30.04.2016
28	forward	Materukhin Alexander	17.10.1981	Ukraine	30.04.2018
19	forward	Meleshko Dmitry	08.11.1982	Belarus	30.04.2016
10	forward	Mikhalyov Andrei	23.02.1978	Belarus	30.04.2016
40	goaltender	Milchakov Dmitry	02.03.1986	Belarus	30.04.2017
4	defense	Nogachyov Evgeny	31.08.1991	Belarus	30.04.2017
71	forward	Pavlovich Alexander	12.07.1988	Belarus	30.04.2016
38	forward	Szczechura Paul	30.11.1985	Canada	30.04.2016
67	defense	Usenko Ivan	12.02.1983	Belarus	30.04.2016
-	defense	Ustinenko Nikita	22.04.1995	Belarus	30.04.2017
16	forward	Vesce Ryan	07.04.1982	USA	30.04.2016

Arenas
Dinamo called Minsk Sports Palace as their home until they moved to the new Minsk-Arena in 2010.
Draft National Sports Palace was designed by a team of the institute "Belgosproekt" in the main architect Filimonov SD, architect Malyshev, VN and chief engineer of the project Korzhevsky VV Construction lasted from September 1963 to May 1966. Feature of the project was the asymmetrical arrangement of spectators in the stands stationary and the scene on the opposite side of the playground. This decision, coupled with the use of prefabricated grandstands in the pit, allowing to transform the arena into a concert hall. The project became a model and was re-implemented in Chelyabinsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Volgograd, and Vilnius. In 1984, the Palace of sports included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of the BSSR. In the 1960 - 1980 at the Palais des Sports were the largest Republican events, as well as allied championships and international tournaments in wrestling, fencing, boxing, weightlifting, rhythmic and artistic gymnastics and other sports. It conducted its matches in the championship hockey club of the Union Dynamo and handball SKA. Moreover, the Palace were the biggest concerts and Republican Party meetings. In 1990 the Palace premises were leased, in the arena were exhibition events, and sporting events had taken place. In 2001-2004 was carried out stepwise reconstruction of the Palace of Sports: updated building facades, replace refrigeration, lighting and sound equipment, installed air conditioning system, replaced by seats for spectators, installed a new electronic bulletin board.

The Minsk Arena's official opening was held on 30 January 2010 when the 2nd Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game was held there. The first match in the facility, however, had already been played by Dinamo Minsk on 14 January 2010 against Metallurg Magnitogorsk. Two more KHL regular-season games were scheduled in January before the official opening: against Avtomobilist on 16 January and against Traktor on 18 January. It was one of two main venues for the 2014 IIHF World Championship. It was also the venue for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010, which took place on 20 November 2010.
Pobeditelei prosp. 111, Minsk, Belarus, 220020