Metallurg Novokuznetsk (russian: Металлург Новокузнецк) is a professional

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team from

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based in

Novokuznetsk Novokuznetsk ( rus, Новокузнецк, p=nəvəkʊzˈnʲɛt͡sk; literally: "new smith's", cjs, Аба-тура, ''Aba-tura'') is a city in Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass) in south-western Siberia, Russia. It is the second largest city in the obla ...

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. They are currently members of the

Supreme Hockey League The Supreme Hockey League (SHL) (russian: Высшая хоккейная лига (ВХЛ), links=no, ''Vysshaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)''), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league ...

(VHL).

History

The team was founded in 1949 in

(then Stalinsk) to compete in the lower divisions of the Soviet ice hockey championship. During the 1960s, Metallurg managed to advance to the elite group for several seasons, but did not establish itself as a major club until the 1990s when the International Hockey League was formed. During the first years of the post-Soviet era, Novokuznetsk significantly improved its roster with players from the Ust-Kamenogorsk school. The team's downfall began in 2004 when its managerial staff moved to

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signing the best players from Novokuznetsk. Despite that the team was able to rebuild itself and years later joined the

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...

in 2008. Following the 2016–17 season, with the KHL in need to regulate debts amongst clubs through contraction and with Novokuznetsk in financial trouble pertaining to a lack of success on the ice, they were excluded from participating in the KHL on May 24, 2017. Novokuznetsk will continue to operate their junior club program and also participate in the secondary tier of the VHL. On 21 May 2020, Metallurg ended their affiliation with

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, opting to be the farm team for

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of the KHL for the

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season.

Honors

Winners

President of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Cup The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Cup is an annual pre-season ice hockey tournament held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. The tournament was first held in 2010 by the initiative of the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. The event i ...

''(1)'': 2016

Runners-up

Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague (russian: Чемпионат России Суперлига, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was cons ...

Championship ''(1)'': 2000

Season-by-season KHL record

''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against''

Franchise records and leaders

KHL scoring leaders

These were the top-ten KHL point-scorers in franchise history.Metallurg Novokuznetsk KHL Points Leaders , QuantHockey.com
Retrieved March 26, 2011 ''Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game

References

External links

Metallurg Novokuznetsk official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Metallurg Novokuznetsk Ice hockey teams in Russia Former Kontinental Hockey League teams Sport in Novokuznetsk