Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg

Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
League	Kontinental Hockey League (2009–present)
Conference	Eastern
Division	Kharlamov
Founded	2006
Home arena	KRK Uralets (capacity: 5,570)
Captain	Alexei Simakov
Affiliate(s)	Sputnik Nizhny Tagil (VHL) JHC Avto (MHL)
Website	www.hc-avto.ru

Arena KRK Uralets

Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (Russian: Автомобилист Екатеринбург) are a professional ice hockey team based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. They replaced Khimik Voskresensk in the Kontinental Hockey League in 2009.

History

Founded in 2006 the team took its name from an older Yekaterinburg ice hockey club called Avtomobilist that used to play in the Soviet championship and later the International Hockey League.

Season-by-season record

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

Season	GP	W	L	OTW	OTL	Pts	GF	GA	Finish	Playoffs
2009–10	56	14	28	8	6	64	127	139	5th, Kharlamov	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 3-1 (Salavat Yulaev Ufa)
2010–11	54	10	31	10	3	53	134	184	6th, Kharlamov	Did not qualify
2011–12	54	9	30	7	8	49	105	165	6th, Kharlamov	Did not qualify
2012–13	52	7	32	1	12	35	104	180	6th, Kharlamov	Did not qualify
2013–14	54	22	19	7	6	86	134	125	4th, Kharlamov	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 0-4 (Barys Astana)

Players

Current roster

Updated July 25, 2015.

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
95		Alexei Efimov	LW	R	36	2013	Moscow, Russian SFSR
28		Sergei Emelin	C	L	33	2014	Ufa, Russian SFSR
81		Eero Elo	RW	R	34	2015	Rauma, Finland
60		Artyom Gareyev	W	L	32	2014	Ufa, Russian SFSR
15		Anatoli Golyshev	W	L	29	2012	Perm, Russia
4		Tommi Kivistö	D	L	33	2015	Vantaa, Finland
42		Petr Koukal	C	L	41	2015	Žďár nad Sázavou, Czechoslovakia
21		Jakub Kovar	G	L	35	2013	Písek, Czechoslovakia
19		Kirill Lebedev	F	L	32	2015	Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR
18		Alexander Loginov	D	L	37	2014	Ufa, Russian SFSR
77		Dmitri Megalinsky	D	L	41	2013	Perm, Russian SFSR
69		Alexei Mitrofanov	RW	L	30	2015	Voskresensk, Russia
93		Alexander Pankov	RW	L	33	2015	Ufa, Russia
25		Vitaly Popov	W	L	31	2014	Magnitogorsk, Russia
23		Ondřej Roman	W	L	35	2015	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
14		Alexei Simakov	RW	L	45	2012	Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR
7		Nikolai Timashov	D	L	30	2015	Magnitogorsk, Russia
11		Alexander Titov	D	L	33	2015	Moscow, Russian SFSR
91		Nikita Tochitsky	C	L	32	2015	Khabarovsk, Russia
12		Alexander Torchenyuk	C	L	33	2015	Moscow, Russian SFSR
88		Nikita Tryamkin	D	L	29	2011	Yekaterinburg, Russia
40		Igor Ustinskiy	G	L	30	2014	Tyumen, Russia
93		Alexei Vasilevsky	D	R	31	2015	Ufa, Russia
3		Igor Velichkin	RW	L	37	2015	Magnitogorsk, Russia
89		Vladislav Voropayev	D	L	28	2014	Nizhny Tagil, Russia
97		Pavel Zykov	F	L	29	2013	Tyumen, Russia
5		Egor Zhuravlyov	D	L	34	2013	Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR

Leaders

Team captains

• Alexander Gulyavtsev, 2009–11
• Sergei Gusev, 2012–14
• Alexei Simakov, 2014–present

Head coaches

• Leonid Kiselyov, 2006
• Vitali Krayov, 2006–07
• Mikhail Malko, 2007
• Sergei Shepelev, 2007–08
• Miskhat Fakhrutdinov, 2008–09
• Marek Sykora, 2009–10
• Evgeni Popikhin, 2010

• Evgeni Mukhin, 2010–11
• Ilya Byakin, 2011
• Andrei Martemyanov, 2011–12
• Andrei Shayanov, 2012
• Igor Ulanov, 2012–13
• Anatoly Emelin, 2013–present

External links

• Official website (in Russian)