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Hockey Club Lokomotiv (, ), also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a professional
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club based in
Yaroslavl Yaroslavl (; , ) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historic part of the city is a World Heritage Site, and is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl rivers. ...
, Russia. It is a member of the Tarasov Division in the
Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; ) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (20), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 23 clubs. It was considered in ...
(KHL). The name of the team is derived from its owner,
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, the national railroad operator. On 7 September 2011, nearly the entire team perished in a
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. The team's flight to a game in Minsk crashed during takeoff, 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 The Junior Hockey League (JHL) (), sometimes translated as the ''Minor'' or ''Youth'' Hockey League, is a major junior ice hockey league in Eurasia, founded in 2009. It currently consists of 33 teams from 3 countries. Currently, all teams but o ...
(MHL). The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the
2011–12 KHL season The 2011–12 KHL season was the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began with the Opening Cup game on 7 September 2011, but because of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which occurred during the first per ...
. The team won the
Gagarin Cup The Gagarin Cup () is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) playoffs, and is named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The Cup was supposedly named after Gagarin because the last po ...
in 2025.


History

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) The team generally played in the Second League of the Class "A" group during the
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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 The Russian Superleague (, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second-best league in the world, after the Nation ...
(RSL) following the collapse of the Soviet Union, winning its first RSL championship in 1997 under coach
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. 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
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head coach Vladimír Vujtek, Sr. Vujtek left the club after the 2002–03 season for a contract offer from rival
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. Lokomotiv has not been able to replicate its success since that time, but has remained a perennial contender in the RSL and then the later KHL.


2011 plane crash

On 7 September 2011, the Lokomotiv club was to travel to
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for its first game of the
2011–12 KHL season The 2011–12 KHL season was the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began with the Opening Cup game on 7 September 2011, but because of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which occurred during the first per ...
when the airplane that was carrying the team crashed following a botched take-off from
Tunoshna Airport Yaroslavl (Tunoshna) International Airport (Tunoshna - also Tunoshnoye, or Tunoschna) () is an airport in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located 18 km southeast of Yaroslavl. It is served by medium-sized airliners. The airport is situated next ...
. Among the 45 passengers and crew on board, only flight engineer Alexander Sizov survived the crash. 26-year-old Lokomotiv forward Alexander Galimov, who had been with the team since 2004, was pulled out of the crash alive and conscious, but had burns to 80 percent of his body and died five days later in a hospital in
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. Prior to the crash, the team played nine pre-season games, finishing with a 7–2 record. On 3 September 2011, in Lokomotiv's last pre-season game, at home against
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, Galimov scored the team's last pre-crash goal in a 5–2 victory. In the aftermath of the crash, KHL president
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announced that a
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would be held to allow Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to ice a team for the 2011–12 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
Supreme Hockey League The All-Russian Hockey League (VHL) (, ''Vserossiyskaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)''), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league in Eurasia, and the second highest level of Russian hocke ...
(VHL) for one season before returning to the KHL. Former coach
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returned to the team as its head coach for the VHL season. Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the following season would automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs, and the club could request allowance to use more than six non-
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players in the KHL squad. The accident was the second plane crash in Russia involving a hockey team; in 1950, the entire
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team was killed in an air disaster near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). Since the disaster, Lokomotiv players have a black ribbon with the date of the crash drawn on their uniforms


2012–13 season

On 9 April 2012, Tom Rowe, formerly an assistant coach with the
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of the
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(NHL), signed on as the team's new head coach. For the
2012–13 KHL season The 2012–13 KHL season was the fifth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began on 4 September with the Lokomotiv Cup between last year's finalists Dynamo Moscow and Avangard Omsk. The league consisted of 26 teams from ...
, Lokomotiv added former NHL players
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,
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, Staffan Kronwall, Curtis Sanford, Sami Lepistö and Vitaly Vishnevskiy. Vishnevskiy previously played for the club from 2008 to 2010. Defenseman Dmitri Kulikov signed on to play with Lokomotiv during the
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.


Season-by-season record

''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against''


Players


Current roster


Honors


Champions

Gagarin Cup The Gagarin Cup () is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) playoffs, and is named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The Cup was supposedly named after Gagarin because the last po ...
''(1)'': 2024-25
Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague (, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second-best league in the world, after the Nation ...
''(3)'': 1997, 2002, 2003
Opening Cup ''(1)'': 2024-25
Continental Cup ''(1)'': 2024-25
Minsk Cup ''(1)'': 2017
Longi Kahoo Cup ''(3)'': 2010, 2011, 2017
Junior tournament President Cup (Trinec) ''(1)'': 2016/2017


Runners-up

Gagarin Cup The Gagarin Cup () is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) playoffs, and is named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The Cup was supposedly named after Gagarin because the last po ...
''(2)'': 2009, 2024
Gagarin Cup The Gagarin Cup () is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) playoffs, and is named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The Cup was supposedly named after Gagarin because the last po ...
''(3)'': 2010, 2014, 2017
Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague (, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second-best league in the world, after the Nation ...
''(1)'': 2008
Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague (, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second-best league in the world, after the Nation ...
''(2)'': 1999, 2005
IIHF Continental Cup The Continental Cup is a second-level ice hockey tournament for European clubs (behind Champions Hockey League), begun in 1997 after the discontinuing of the European Cup. It was intended for teams from countries without representatives in the ...
''(1)'': 2003
Spengler Cup The Spengler Cup is an annual invitational ice hockey tournament held in Davos, Switzerland. First held in 1923, the Spengler Cup is often cited as the oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world. The event is hosted by the Swiss team ...
''(1)'': 2003


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Ice hockey teams in Russia Sport in Yaroslavl Railway sports clubs and teams Kontinental Hockey League teams Ice hockey clubs established in 1959