HC Dinamo-Minsk
History
The club was formed in 1976, played 5 seasons in the Soviet Top Ice Hockey League, best result was the 10th place in 1989/90 season. Dinamo-Minsk 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 disband in 2000. Dinamo-Minsk was recovered in 2003, 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 build 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 House, a protege 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 House was fired out. 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 from 24 teams.
The next season team began under command of Glen Hanlon, who brought the Belarus national team to the sixth place at WC2006 in Riga. The team roster was fulfilled with world famous players Ville Peltonen and Ossi Väänänen, also one of best the Belarus goalkeepers Andrei Mezin was attached to HC Dinamo-Minsk. Season of 2009/20010 was alike to the previous. Team hadn't showed good result and Glen Hanlon was substituted by head coach of HK Homiel. Dinamo-Minsk took the 17th in the championship of KHL and won Spengler Cup under the guidance of Alexander Andrievsky.
Honors
Champions
- Belarusian Extraliga Championship (1): 2007
- Belarus Cup (2): 2005, 2006
- Spengler Cup (1): 2009
– Дома
– В гостях
