HC Dinamo Minsk
| Dinamo-Minsk Дина́мо-Минск |
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| Nickname | Bisons |
| City | Minsk |
| League |
KHL 2008-present
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| Conference | Western |
| Division | Bobrov |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Home arena |
Minsk-Arena (Capacity: 15,086) |
| Colours | |
| Owner(s) | BFSO Dinamo |
| General manager | Pavel Burba |
| Head coach | Craig Woodcroft |
| Captain | Alexander Pavlovich |
| Affiliate(s) | Dinamo-Shinnik (MHL) |
| Website | HC Dinamo-Minsk |
| Franchise history | |
| HC Dinamo-Minsk | |
KHL 2008-present
Hockey Club Dinamo-Minsk (Russian: Дина́мо-Минск; Belarusian: Дынама-Мінск, Dynama-Minsk) is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs (Gagarin Cup) three times: in 2010–11, 2011–12 and 2014–15 KHL seasons. The team hasn't won a single round of the Gagarin Cup yet, losing in all three series.
Alexander Pavlovich is the current captain of the team, with his alternates being Alexander Kulakov and Sergei Kostitsyn.
The origins of the club begin in 1966, where the original Dinamo played 5 seasons in the Soviet Top Ice Hockey League, with its highest finish being 10th place in the 1989/90 season. Dinamo was renamed as Tivali Minsk in 1993 and four times became a champion of the Belarusian Championship in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 2000. Tivali was disbanded in 2000. Dinamo was founded in 2003, taking the name of the historic club, and won champion title and Belarus Cup twice.
On March 26, 2008, the KHL confirmed the Belarusian club's inclusion in the Bobrov Division. Dinamo-Minsk started to play on the ice of Minsk Palace of Sports and was relocated to the newly built Minsk-Arena in December 2009. The first head coach of the Belarusian club was Paul Gardner, who was dismissed until the championship had begun. The next one became Jim Hughes, a protégé of previous Belarus national team head coach Curt Fraser. But after the first twelve games the team came down next to the last place and soon Jim Hughes was dismissed. New vacancy was taken by Russian specialist Vasili Spiridonov whose efforts were not enough to raise Dinamo-Minsk from the bottom of the tournament table. The club became the 22nd out of 24 teams.
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