Ukraine: Ukrainian Hockey Championship

[Sokil]

since the PHL is dead / on vacation, figured I'd start a new thread, first post is a place holder I'll edit this later with team info I think


anyway, in other news, our beloved Sokil...
http://bighockey.ua/news/hronichna-bida-sokola.html
has no coach or players a week before the start of the season wut

Click to read more...

 

[ozo]

Yeah, news about team rosters start to filter out. It indeed looks like catastrophe of not having a national competition is avoided.

 

[Sokil]

Sokil is getting some players but still not there

Coaching staff : Sergey Lubnin, Sergey Kliment'ev;

Goalkeeper : Balaban;

Defenders : Ryabenko, fast walker, Lyaskovsky;

Forwards : Melnikov, Sekirko, Shaman, Wojciechowski, Zadoenko, A. Dvirnyk, I. Dvirnyk;

 

[Sokil]

aaaaand

http://isport.ua/hockey/ukraine/news/270821.html

Vinnitsa Haydamaky in the championship of Ukraine, which were held on October 28 and 29, moved to the available dates on the calendar and will be played on 9 and 10 January 2014. Thus the first matches in the Sokol championship play on the road Nov. 1 and 2 with White Bars and Gaydamaky - November 6 and 7 at home with Kiev Dzheneralz.

what a joke

 

[Sokil]

It seems that HC Kremenchuk is the only Uke team out there that has their act together and is playing games. Too bad they're in the Belarusian league, good grief.

 

[ozo]

Ahh, those Google translator efforts are so, so entertaining. Anyway, lets hope for the best and championship happens.

 

[Sokil]

46 year old Evgeny Brul is coming out of retirement to play for Levy this year

http://eurohockey.com/player/36553-evgeny-brul.html

lol why

 

[ozo]

Well, lots on returnees who skipped couple of years on most of the teams.

 

[Go Donbass]

Well it's not great or ideal, but at least there will be a Ukrainian championship this year. Let's hope they can build on this, and grow this into a stable league. Ukraine needs something like this to develop it's future national team players.

Go Vinnitsa!!

 

[ozo]

One of the leagues relative superstars Dmitri Gnitko supposedly moves to Spain... Well that's a blow for Lviv.

 

[ficohok*]

One of the leagues relative superstars Dmitri Gnitko supposedly moves to Spain... Well that's a blow for Lviv.

Good player. Played for serbian champion Partizan Belgrade few years ago. Watch him as back then croatian and serbian clubs played "Panonian" league. He has thin nerves...

 

[Sokil]

Well it's not great or ideal, but at least there will be a Ukrainian championship this year. Let's hope they can build on this, and grow this into a stable league. Ukraine needs something like this to develop it's future national team players.

Go Vinnitsa!!

that's the thing, we had a "stable" league with the PHL in its first season what with donbass-2 and name-players actually leaving belarus/russia to play in ukraine, then the second season things got shaky with the berkut debacle

now we're back to amateur bush league, everything that was built up has entirely regressed

 

[Sokil]

Andrei Zyuzin signs with the Leopards? What?

http://isport.ua/hockey/ukraine/news/274230.html
http://hcbbars.com.ua/ru/novosti-kluba/678-andrej-zyuzin-v-belom-barse

 

[Sokil]

Petrukhno is finally relieved of the press box and sent to the Leopards. Same goes for Shalimov.

 

[Go Donbass]

Any of my Ukrainian friends know what's going on with the team in Vinnitsa? They recently had two of their games postponed and now today it looks like they forfeited a game. This a money thing?

 

[Sokil]

Something to do with the EuroMaidan the protests, since the game against Lviv was being held in Kyiv

With Svoboda backing the team, maybe it was politically related?

http://isport.ua/hockey/ukraine/news/274862.html

Reason of absence Gaidamakov Kiev Vinnitsa club head Valery Lukyanets explained worrying situation in the capital, as well as the fact that on the eve of his team sent a letter to the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine with a request to postpone the games at a later date.

According to the TV channel "XSPORT", rematch "Lions" - "Gaydamak" (28 November), also in jeopardy.

 

[Go Donbass]

Something to do with the EuroMaidan the protests, since the game against Lviv was being held in Kyiv

With Svoboda backing the team, maybe it was politically related?

http://isport.ua/hockey/ukraine/news/274862.html

Cool thanks. At least they're not bankrupt 5 games in, although they are clearly not a strong team.

 

[Sokil]

 

[Sokil]

http://bighockey.ua/news/u-sokoli-znovu-borgi-po-zarplati.html

sokil is so broke that not only can they not pay players, they can't even afford ice time in the rink in Brovary (that's part of a mall) so they're celebrating their 50th anniversary by practicing at the local gym

SELL THE TEAM YOU IDIOTS, YOU'RE A DISGRACE

 

[Sokil]

http://bighockey.ua/news/gaydamaki-rizikuyut-ne-dograti-chempionat.html


Looks like Haidamaky is folding again, and getting booted from the Championship....THIS IS A SEMI-PRO LEAGUE, HOW CAN YOU NOT EVEN ICE A TEAM? THERE'S NO SALARY FLOOR! THE BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE ARE THE GENERALS, WHO CAME FROM THE 'NIGHT' (MENS) LEAGUE!

COME ON! I'M SICK OF THIS! GET YOUR **** TOGETHER!

 

[ndd17]

Championship in this year still held. In the time period from 12 february till 21 march will be played regular season and the time period from 24 march till 4 april will be played play-off. In the championship will play four team, Generals from Kiev, Kiev, Kremenchug and Vityaz from Kharkiv.

 

[ozo]

I already had given up the hope of them fixing something up. Lets hope the championship indeed takes place.

 

[malkinfan]

Donetsk is sugnung guys, obviously they will not play in the KHL, so which championship do they plan to take place in?

 

[ozo]

Donetsk is sugnung guys, obviously they will not play in the KHL, so which championship do they plan to take place in?

They plan on playing in Ukrainian league. There might be as many as 8 teams in the tournament if every wannabe will be able to put a roster together.

 

[ndd17]

Donbass Donetsk will play in the Ukrainian league this season. Earlier team president Boris Kolesnikov offered Hockey Federation of Ukraine to spend the national championship only to players under 21 years and only at this condition guaranteed participation Donbass in this one. Federation this crazy idea ignored.
But sober sence won and Donbass in. Already signed contracts with 10 players( 1/3/6),
all of them are Ukrainians. Anatoli Stepanischev will be head coach. Home games the team will play Druzhkovka.
For the rest of the teams of the championship almost no information, at least for me. I know also that Seukand will be Companion HC, its all.