Tsen Tou Jilin City () is a Chinese Ice Hockey team based in

Jilin City Jilin City, Mandarin pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kirin (, International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA:/ki.rin/) is the second-largest city and former capital of Jilin province in northeast China. As of th ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

, where it was founded in 2017. Unlike the majority of teams 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 ...

, which are affiliates of

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 ...

teams, Tsen Tou plays as an independent entity. While no formal link is in place, HC Kunlun Red Star's former manager, Vladimir Krechin, stated that the club plans to work in the future with Tsen Tou. The name of the club takes from the abbreviation of its owner, Jilin City Construction Holding Group, a city-owned enterprise.

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Tsen Tou team states on EliteProspects.com
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