HC Lev
| HC Lev Praha | |
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| Nickname | Lions, Pride |
| City | Prague, Czech Republic |
| League | Kontinental Hockey League |
| Conference | Western |
| Division | Bobrov |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Folded | 2014 |
| Home arena |
Tipsport Arena (capacity: 13,150) O2 Arena (capacity: 17,360) |
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| Owner(s) | Sportovní holding Praha |
| President | Evgeni Myshkovskyi |
| General manager | Rashid Khabibulin |
| Affiliate(s) | Sparta Praha (Czech Extraliga), HC Stadion Litoměřice (Czech 1. Liga) |
| Website | www.levpraha.com |
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Hockey Club Lev Praha (stylized as HC LEV Praha) was a professional ice hockey team located in Prague, Czech Republic, which played in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) in the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons.
In their two seasons played, Lev has made the Gagarin Cup playoffs both times. In 2012–13, they finished 7th in the Western Conference and were swept in four straight games by HC CSKA Moscow in the first round. In 2013–14, they finished 3rd in the west, then beat KHL Medvescak Zagreb, HC Donbass and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to become Western Conference Champions. In the Gagarin Cup Finals, they faced Metallurg Magnitogorsk. The series went to a seventh and decisive game before Metallurg prevailed on home ice 7–4.
Lev home attendance in the 2012–13 regular season averaged 7,161 spectators per game, making it the highest-attended Prague hockey club and the sixth highest in the KHL. Lev holds the record for the five largest home crowds in KHL history, with a record of 17,073 attending Game 4 of the Gagarin Cup Finals at O2 Arena on April 24, 2014. However, after two seasons, because of financial problems caused by the withdrawing of two major sponsors, Lev did not play in the 2014–15 KHL season. According to shareholders, this decision did not rule out the possibility of the KHL returning to Prague in the future. However, more than a year later there is no indication that the club will be revived.
A team named HC Lev Hradec Králové was founded in 2010 and based in Hradec Králové, Bohemia, Czech Republic, with the intention to join the KHL. However, the Czech Ice Hockey Association refused to give permission to the club. Therefore, the team was moved to Poprad, Slovakia and was finally able to join the KHL for the 2011–12 season. But after only one KHL season the team was disbanded.
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