Youth Hockey League Championship

Season 2009/2010

The decision to create a league of youth teams of hockey clubs was made on March 26, 2009 at a joint meeting of the clubs of the Continental Hockey League, the Russian Hockey Federation and the KHL leadership ^[1] .

In the 2009/10 season, 22 teams performed in the MHL.

The first championship kicked off on September 4, 2009 with a match between the Dynamo MHC and CSKA-Red Army teams ^[2] .

Season 2010/2011

In the 2009/10 season, the Krylia Sovetov MHC performed in the MHL, based in Moscow and independent of the Krylia Sovetov MCC Major League team. In the summer of 2010, these clubs merged, now the adult team plays in the VHL , and the youth, relocated after joining Dmitrov, in the MHL.

In the 2009/10 season, the MHL performed at the Dynamo Moscow Concern (Moscow), affiliated with the Moscow Dynamo, and the Sheriff (Balashikha), affiliated with the HC MVD (Balashikha). After the association of the Dynamo clubs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs HC in the Dynamo OHC, the youth team of the united club, called the Sheriff, relocated to Tver .

In the offseason, new teams were accepted to the MHL, including from abroad: Minsk Bison , HC Riga , Yunost (Minsk) , Gazovik (Tyumen) , White Tigers (Orenburg) , “Olympia” (Kirovo-Chepetsk) , “Silver Lions” (St. Petersburg) . Thus, the league became international. In addition, in July, the Phoenix team was renamed to Khimik MHC ^[3] .

Season 2011/2012

On June 27, it was decided to create Group B in the MHL, the purpose of which, according to the managing director of the MHL, is to create an extensive network of hockey leagues in Russia ^[4] .

The Slovak team Tatranski Wolves joined the MHL - a youth club affiliated with Leo from Poprad .

Season 2012/2013

On April 27, 2012, the Czech club Energia joined the league ^{[5] [6]} .

July 27, 2012 in the MHL joined the Hungarian club "Patriot" ^[7] .

On August 1, 2012, the Patriot Club was officially accepted into the MHL Championship ^[8] .

In the 2012/13 season, the Tatra Wolves team did not participate ^[9] .

Also this season, Crystal entered the league (Berdsk)

Season 2013/2014

On June 19, 2013, seven clubs were officially accepted into the league: Young Guard ( Donetsk , Ukraine ), Dynamo St. Petersburg MHK , Gornyak ( Uchaly ), Red Bull ( Salzburg , Austria ), Kuban Golden Eagles ”( Krasnodar ),“ Elta ”( Lipetsk ) and a team from the city ( Belgorod ) ^[10] . Of these teams, 3 will play in the MHL Championship: Young Guard ^{[11] [12]} , Dynamo ^[13] and youth Red Bull ^[14] .

The prospects of joining teams from Estonia and Poland ^{[15] [16]} .

September 28, 2013 it became known that the Patriot SKEX team withdrew from the tournament due to financial problems. Their debt to players and coaches is 45,000 euros.

Season 2014/2015

On April 9, 2014, it became known that the Sakhalin Sharks team (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) plans to enter the MHL Championship. ^[17]

On May 25, 2014, at a meeting of the Board of the Youth Hockey League in Minsk, applications for joining the MHL of nine clubs were approved: Rostov ( Rostov-on-Don ), Varyagi ( Leningrad Region ), Sakhalin Sharks ( Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk ), Bryansk, Air Force Central Command ( Samara ), Hockey Plus ( Mozhaisk ), Northern Husky ( Murmansk ), Dzhakals ( Poland ), Iceberen ( Germany ). ^[18] At the same time, only two clubs will be eligible to play in the MHL-A - Iceberen, if granted permission from the national federation, and Sakhalin Sharks, the rest of the teams will play division B. ^[19]

On June 18, 2014, the Youth Hockey League announced that due to the unstable and insecure situation in Ukraine, the Young Guard Guard (Donetsk) will miss the 2014–2015 season. ^[twenty]

July 10, 2014 announced the entry of “Bars” (Kazan) in the Higher Hockey League. ^[21] On July 18, the VHL officially announced the inclusion of the Kazan team in the VHL Championship. ^[22]

The second newcomer to the MHL Championship was the 2014 Cup of Regions - “Golden Eagles of the Kuban” (Krasnodar). ^[23]

July 14, 2014 Kazan “Irbis” was accepted as a member of the MHL Championship. He will take the place of “Leopard”, transferred to the VHL. ^[24]

Season 2016/2017

On July 25, 2016, the composition of the new Championship was approved at a meeting of the Youth Hockey League Board, in which 31 clubs from 3 countries will participate: 28 clubs from Russia, 2 from Kazakhstan and 1 club from Latvia. The competition was abandoned by the Sakhalin Sharks , the Russian Team U18 , Olimpia and Dynamo Raubichi , but the Typhoon ( Ussuriysk ), the revived Wings of the Soviets and passed from the Altai MHL Championship ( Ust-Kamenogorsk ) and “ Sputnik ”( Almetyevsk ) ^[25] .

Season 2017/2018

In the 2017/2018 season, the MHL joined the Chinese Kunlun Red Star Junior ( Beijing ), as well as the Captain club ( Stupino ), which became the youth team of Sochi . The Ministry of Internal Affairs HC changed its name to Dynamo Moscow Chemical Industrial Complex ( Moscow ).

There are 33 arenas in the Youth Hockey League Championship. The most spacious - the home arena of “Snow Leopards” - the Barys Arena (Astana, Kazakhstan) - 11,626 seats, the smallest - the home arena “Typhoon” - the SOK “Ice Arena” (Ussuriysk, Russia) - 954 places. 13 teams perform in the arenas of the KHL clubs, 6 teams perform in the arenas of the VHL clubs, 13 teams perform in the arenas of the MHL, Tolpar (Ufa) shares the arena with the club of the LCL - Agidel (Ufa).

In the 2014/15 season, the teams were divided into 2 conferences ( Western - 20 teams and Eastern - 19 teams). Each conference includes 2 divisions. Thus, only 4: North-West , Center and Volga region - 10 teams each and Ural and Siberia - 9 teams ^[26] . Teams played 4 games (2 at home and 2 away) with teams from their division and 2 games (home and away) with teams from another division of their conference. Thus, the teams of the North-West and the Center played 56 games each in the regular season; Volga region teams - 54 games each; teams of the Urals and Siberia - 52 games each. In the playoffs there were 8 teams from each division. Up to the quarter-finals, the playoffs took place inside the conferences, with the first two seeding numbers received by the winning teams of the divisions, numbers 3 through 16 were distributed in descending order of points scored in the regular season. Starting from the semi-final stage, the teams of the West and the East played “cross”. The winner of the playoffs was awarded the Kharlamov Cup .

• Morozov Aleksei Alekseevich - KHL Vice President for Youth Hockey Development
• Romashin Igor Nikolaevich - Director of the Department of the MHL competitions
• Agamalieva Evgenia - Head of the Department for Special Projects of the MHL
• Anatoly Zakharov - Head of the refereeing department of the MHL

Chairman:

• Alexander Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom

Board members:

• Morozov Aleksey - KHL Vice President for Youth Hockey Development
• Rotenberg Roman - First Vice-President of FHR, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the KHL , Vice-President of HC SKA
• Garifullin Almaz - Sports Director of HC CSKA
• Gross Oleg - General Manager of Avtomobilist HC
• Kiknadze Alexander - Head of Legal Department - Chairman of the KHL Disciplinary Committee
• Alexei Kireev - Deputy Executive Director of FHR
• Kobylyansky George - Vice President of the KHL
• Krylova Alyona - Director of Youth Sports School KH Krylya Sovetov
• Morozov Aleksey - Director of the Department of Sports of Higher Achievements of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation
• Ni-Li Pavel - Sports Director of HC Spartak
• Fisko Vadim - General Director of HC SKA
• Yurzinov Vladimir - Honored Master of Sports in Hockey. Honored Coach of the USSR, Russia and the Latvian SSR

Western Conference

Eastern Conference

• Note: Starting from the 2011/12 season, both teams that lose in the semifinals will be awarded bronze medals. 3rd place in the final table is occupied by the team that has the best score of points in the matches of the first stage. ^[28]

Since the foundation of the league in 2009, 52 teams have participated in the MHL championships. The table shows the results of the teams in the regular part of the MHL championships, as well as in the playoffs of each season of the MHL (indicated in color).

* In July 2010, the Phoenix team was renamed to Khimik MHC.

** including the history of the performance of “Sheriff” before the merger with the Dynamo MHC in 2010.

Every year, the league determines the best participants in the championship. MHL trophies are named after the legends of our hockey ^[29] .

• Prize named after Boris Mikhailov

The award is given to the player who scored the most points in the goal + pass system.

• Boris Mayorov Prize

The prize is awarded to the best sniper of the regular season, the hockey player who scored the most goals.

• Prize named after Vyacheslav Fetisov

The reward for the defender, according to the League, proved to be better than colleagues in the line.

• Prize named after Vladislav Tretyak

The trophy is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the championship.

• Prize named after Vladimir Yurzinov

The award is given to the coach who has contributed the most to the success of the team.

• Prize named after Vitaly Davydov

Prize to the best player of the playoff series.

The best players in the MHL Championship take part in the Challenge Cup.

• 2009/10 - February 6, 2010, St. Petersburg , Ice Palace , West - East 6: 4
• 2010/11 - February 12, 2011, Ufa , Ufa-Arena , East - West 3: 2 (blvd.)
• 2011/12 - February 11, 2012, Magnitogorsk , Arena-Metallurg , West - East 4: 2
• 2012/13 - February 23, 2013, Yekaterinburg , KRK "Uralets" , East - West 3: 1
• 2013/14 - February 1, 2014, Nizhny Novgorod ^[30] , KRK Nagorny , West - East 5: 3
• 2014/15 - January 31, 2015, Cherepovets , Ice Palace , West - East 3: 2 (from.)
• 2015/16 - February 13, 2016, Nizhnekamsk , SKK "Ice Palace" , West - East 5: 2
• 2016/17 - January 15, 2017, Ufa , Ufa-Arena , East - West 1: 2 (blvd.)
• 2017/18 - January 11, 2018, Astana , Barys Arena , East - West 3: 7

Hockey players no older than 18 years of age participating in the MHL Championship and the MHL Championship take part in the Future Cup.

2011/12 - March 12, 2012, Chelyabinsk , Tractor Ice Arena , West - East 3: 1

The trophy is played between the winners of the Championship and Championship of the MHL - the holder of the Kharlamov Cup and the winner of the Cup of Regions ^[31] .

2016 - April 30, 2016, Uchaly , Gornyak LD, Gornyak 1: 5 Loko ^[32]

The play-out (or consolation tournament) was held in the 2011/2012 season . It involved teams that did not qualify for the playoffs. The peculiarity of this tournament was that all the points that the teams earned in the first stage of the championship, at the start of the play-out games, remained unchanged. The teams played two matches at home and away with the team from their conference. Matches between teams from different conferences were not held. The two teams that scored the least points dropped out of the MHL championship, passing to the championship . Their place is occupied by the champion and finalist of the second division of the MHL. The first and last clubs that dropped out of the championship following the playout were the Kirov-Chepetskaya Olimpia and the Togliatti Rook ( Oktan from Perm and Crystal from Berdsk took their place).

But during the tournament various complaints began to come to the MHL office. The clubs complained about the lack of interest in the tournament from the fans, as well as too high financial costs for moving from one city to another (in the regular championship and playoffs, all the expenses for moving were paid by the league itself, and in the playout the clubs had to cover them independently). As a result of all these statements, the league leadership decided to amend the competition rules accordingly, and the play-out was canceled. Nevertheless, the managing director of the MHL Dmitry Efimov does not exclude the possibility of returning the play-out if necessary ^[33] .

On June 1, 2011, at the next (annual) meeting of the members of the non-profit Partnership Higher Hockey League , it was decided that from the next season each club will be required to have a youth team in the MHL. On June 27, 2011, at a general meeting of the MHL clubs, it was decided to create “Group B” and hold a tournament among the teams of this division ^[34] .

The first draw of the championship started on September 20, 2011. 19 teams took part in it.

The winner of the series of playoffs of the championship is awarded the Cup of Regions .

In the 2017/2018 season, 15 teams will perform in the championship.

Starting from the 2016/2017 season, the Youth Hockey League Championship is held under the auspices of the FHR and is called the National Youth Hockey League .

• The teams who lost in the semifinals received bronze medals

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• Continental Hockey League
• Major Hockey League
• National Youth Hockey League

• The official site of the MHL
• MHL Championship on the Goal Archive website
• MHL calendar for 2012/13 season (PDF file)
• Official VK page