HC Dynamo Moscow

Infobox KHL team
clubname = Dynamo Moscow


fullname = Dynamo Moscow Hockey Club
nickname = "Musora"
founded = 1946
dissolved =
based_in = Moscow, Russia flagicon|RUS
arena = Luzhniki Palace of Sports
capacity = 8,700
league = KHL 2008-Present
*RSL 1999-2008
*RHL 1996-1999
*IHL 1992-1996
*Soviet League 1946-1992
division = Chernyshev
conference =
history =
team_color = Blue, White
owner =
gm = flagicon|RUS Mikhail Golovkov
head_coach = flagicon|CZE Vladimir Vujtek
captain =
honors =
affiliates =
website = http://www.dynamo.ru

HC Dynamo Moscow (ru: Динамо Москва) is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow competing in the Kontinental Hockey League. It was founded in 1946 and plays in the smaller arena of the Olimpiyski Sport Complex (capacity 8,700).

Achievements

:Russian/Soviet Championships won: 9 (1947, 1954, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2005):USSR Cups won: 3 (1953, 1972, 1976):IIHF European Champions Cups won: 1 (2006):Spengler Cups won: 1 (1984):Ahearne Cups won: 2 (1975, 1976)

History

Part of the Dynamo Moscow sports club, a part of Dynamo sports society, the team was founded in 1946 and in its early days was sponsored by the KGB. It is among Russia's most successful clubs, winning the Soviet Championship in 1947, 1954, 1990, and 1991, the Russian Championship in 1992, 1993, 1995, and 2000, and the Russian Superleague in 1999-2000 and 2005. It also won the Spengler Cup in 1983-84 and the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2006.
This is the only club which never left the USSR/Russia elite ice-hockey division since first national championships was introduced in 1946.

Roster

"as of October 2, 2008"

Goaltenders

*31 flagicon|Russia Vitaly Yeremeyev
*42 flagicon|Russia Andrei Malkov

Defensemen

*4 flagicon|Czech Republic Karel Rachůnek
*6 flagicon|Russia Denis Denisov
*34 flagicon|Russia Sergey Vyshedkevich
*35 flagicon|Russia Alexander Budkin
*36 flagicon|Russia Yakov Rylov
*44 flagicon|Russia Ivan Maksimkin
*51 flagicon|Russia Gennady Razin
*77 flagicon|Ukraine Alexei Zhitnik
*83 flagicon|Russia Maxim Isaev
*95 flagicon|Russia Daniil Markov

Forwards

*10 flagicon|Canada Eric Landry
*11 flagicon|Ukraine Konstantin Kasianchuk
*12 flagicon|Russia Roman Voloshenko
*13 flagicon|Russia Ivan Nepryaev
*14 flagicon|Russia Dmitri Tarasov
*16 flagicon|Czech Republic Petr Čajánek
*19 flagicon|Russia Alexander Goroshansky
*21 flagicon|Russia Gennady Stolyarov
*23 flagicon|Russia Dmitri Shitikov
*27 flagicon|Russia Dmitry Afanasenkov
*28 flagicon|Russia Andrej Lozhkin
*33 flagicon|Russia Maxim Pestushko
*43 flagicon|Russia Vitaly Yachmenev
*53 flagicon|Russia Denis Tolpeko
*55 flagicon|Russia Alexei Badyukov
*68 flagicon|Russia Vitaly Karamnov
*71 flagicon|Belarus Alexei Kalyuzhny
*80 flagicon|Sweden Mattias Weinhandl
*-- flagicon|Russia Alexander Polukhin

Honoured numbers

Russian clubs have no tradition of retiring numbers. Instead of that they usually raise a banner of honor with the player's number but at the same time this number stays in usage. That's why banners of honour sometimes have duplicated numbers.
*coach - Arkady Chernyshev - 1946-1974
*1 - Boris Zaitsev - 1957-1970, Vladimir Myshkin - 1980-1990
*2 - Oleg Tolmachev - 1946-1956, Pavel Zhiburtovich - 1955-1962
*3 - Vitaly Davydov - 1957-1973
*5 - Stanislav Petukhov - 1956-1968, Vasily Pervukhin - 1976-1989
*6 - Valery Vasiliev - 1967-1984
*8 - Valentin Kuzin - 1950-1961
*9 - Nikolay Postavnin - 1946-1951, Alexander Uvarov - 1948-1960
*10 - Yury Krylov - 1951-1965
*11 - Yury Volkov - 1960-1968, Alexander Maltsev - 1967-1984
*17 - Vladimir Yurzinov - 1957-1972, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov - 1973-1988

Head Coaches

* Arkady Chernyshev 1946-74
* Vladimir Yurzinov 1974-79
* Vitaly Davydov 1979-81
* Vladimir Kiselev 1981-84
* Yury Moiseyev 1984-89
* Vladimir Yurzinov 1989-92
* Petr Vorobiev 1992-93
* Vladimir Golubovich 1994-1996,
* Yury Ochnev 1996-97
* Zinetula Bilyaletdinov 1997-2000
* Vladimir Semenov 2000-02
* Zinetula Bilyaletdinov 2002-04
* Vladimir Krikunov 2004-08
* Vladimir Vujtek 2008-present

Notable former players

* Maxim Afinogenov
* Nik Antropov
* Pavel Datsyuk (Played During Lockout)
* Alexander Frolov
* Sergei Gonchar
* Darius Kasparaitis
* Alexei Kovalev
* Viktor Kozlov
* Andrei Markov (Played During Lockout)
* Andrei Nikolishin
* Alexander Ovechkin
* Alexei Ponikarovsky
* Alexei Yashin
* Dmitri Yushkevich
* Alexei Zhamnov

ee also

*Dynamo (sports society)
*Dynamo Moscow (disambiguation)

External links

* [http://www.dynamo.ru Official website] ru icon
* [http://www.hcdynamo.com Unofficial supporters site] ru icon
* [http://www.bwd.ru Fans' website] ru icon