Salavat_Yulaev_Ufa Knowpia

Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
City	Ufa, Russia
League	KHL; 2008–present RSL; 1996–2008; IHL ; 1992–1996; Soviet League Class A2; 1964–1978, 1979–1980, 1981–1982, 1983–1985, 1987–1992; Soviet League Class A; 1978–1979, 1980–1981, 1982–1983, 1985–1987; Soviet League Class B; 1958–1964;
Conference	Eastern
Division	Chernyshev
Founded	1961
Home arena	Ufa Arena; (capacity: 8,250)
Colours
General manager	Rinat Bashirov
Head coach	Viktor Kozlov
Captain	Grigori Panin
Affiliates	Toros Neftekamsk (VHL); Tolpar Ufa (MHL)
Website	hcsalavat.ru
	Current season

Hockey Club Salavat Yulaev (Russian: Хоккейный клуб «Салават Юлаев», romanized: Hokkejnyj klub «Salavat Julajev»; Bashkir: «Салауат Юлаев» хоккей клубы, romanized: «Salawat Yulayev» xokkey klubı), commonly referred as Salavat Yulaev Ufa, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Ufa. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.

Established in 1961, Salavat Yulaev spent the Soviet era mainly in the lower divisions, only appearing in the top league for five seasons, though since the dissolution of the Soviet Union they have been in the top league in Russia.

They have won the Gagarin Cup as the KHL champion once, in 2011, and have won the regular season championship twice, in 2009 and 2010, winning the inaugural Continental Cup for the latter. They also won the final Russian Superleague title, in 2008.

History edit

Soviet era edit

Founded in 1961, the club is named after Salavat Yulaev, a national hero of Bashkortostan. After years of competing in the low-level divisions the team was invited to the second level of the Soviet League "Class A" in 1964, subsequently getting promotion to the elite group for the 1978-1979, 1980-81, 1982-83, 1985-1986 and 1986-1987 seasons.^{[citation needed]}

Post-Soviet era edit

Salavat Yulaev was one of the founding clubs of the International Hockey League and later the Russian Superleague, and normally advanced to the playoffs at that time. The club reached its first Russian championship semifinals in 1996-97 and eventually won its first Championship title in 2007-08, beating Lokomotiv Yaroslavl by three matches to two.

KHL era edit

On July 11, 2008, Salavat signed NHL rising star Alexander Radulov. On June 9, 2009, a press release was issued, stating that Viktor Kozlov had signed a three-year contract to return to Russia.^[2] The club has also signed Norwegian forward Patrick Thoresen for the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons.

Salavat Yulaev marked its first year in the KHL by winning its first two regular season titles and becoming the first club to be awarded the Continental Cup. The following season, the team advanced to the final against Atlant and won their first Gagarin Cup as champions. They remained a powerful club in the KHL over the following seasons, reaching the playoffs each year, though did not advance past the conference finals in any year.

In March 2022, all four Finnish players, including the all-time scoring leader Teemu Hartikainen, and Geoff Platt and Philip Larsen left the team due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[3]

Season-by-season KHL record edit

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, SOW = Penalty Shootout Wins, SOL = Penalty Shootout Losses, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points

Season	GP	W	L	OTL	Pts	GF	GA	Finish	Top scorer	Playoffs
2008–09	56	38	8	2	129	203	116	1st, Bobrov	Alexei Tereshchenko (58 points: 29 G, 29 A; 55 GP)	Lost in preliminary round, 1–3 (Avangard Omsk)
2009–10	56	37	8	1	129	215	116	1st, Chernyshev	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 24 G, 39 A; 54 GP)	Lost in Conference Finals, 2–4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2010–11	54	29	12	0	109	210	144	2nd, Chernyshev	Alexander Radulov (80 points: 20 G, 60 A; 54 GP)	Gagarin Cup Champions, 4–1 (Atlant Moscow Oblast)
2011–12	54	23	18	1	89	173	152	2nd, Chernyshev	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 25 G, 38 A; 50 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2012–13	52	24	17	0	88	148	140	2nd, Chernyshev	Igor Mirnov (37 points: 21 G, 16 A; 49 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 3–4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2013–14	54	25	16	3	94	140	155	2nd, Chernyshev	Dmitri Makarov (40 points: 11 G, 29 A; 54 GP)	Lost in Conference Finals, 1–4 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
2014–15	60	25	27	2	86	173	158	4th, Chernyshev	Kirill Koltsov (48 points: 18 G, 30 A; 60 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
2015–16	60	29	22	3	101	179	156	3rd, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (57 points: 18 G, 39 A; 60 GP)	Lost in Conference Finals, 1–4 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
2016–17	60	27	20	13	88	169	174	3rd, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (56 points: 14 G, 42 A; 55 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2017–18	56	31	20	5	93	151	139	1st, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (55 points: 16 G, 39 A; 55 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 3–4 (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
2018–19	62	31	21	10	72	158	140	3rd, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (49 points: 10 G, 39 A; 56 GP)	Lost in Conference Finals, 2–4 (Avangard Omsk)
2019–20	62	29	23	10	68	153	144	3rd, Chernyshev	Linus Omark (54 points: 12 G, 42 A; 59 GP)	Won in Conference Quarterfinals, 4–2 (Avangard Omsk) Playoffs cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2020–21	60	28	17	5	81	181	151	2nd, Chernyshev	Teemu Hartikainen (64 points: 28 G, 36 A; 53 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 0–4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2021–22	45	28	11	6	62	131	96	1st, Chernyshev	Markus Granlund (38 points: 8 G, 30 A; 41 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2–4 (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
2022–23	68	38	20	10	86	174	141	1st, Chernyshev	Sergei Shmelyov (51 points: 19 G, 32 A; 67 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Admiral Vladivostok)
2023–24	68	42	20	6	90	196	143	2nd, Chernyshev	Alexander Chmelevski (56 points: 27 G, 29 A; 67 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Traktor Chelyabinsk)

Players edit

Current roster edit

Updated 30 March, 2024.^[4]^[5]


No.	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
61	Danil Alalykin	F	L	23	2019	Ufa, Russia
97	Matvei Babenko	RW	R	18	2023	Ufa, Russia
71	Danil Bashkirov	F	L	22	2019	Tyumen, Russia
48	Yevgeny Biryukov	D	L	37	2020	Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR
55	Sasha Chmelevski (A)	C/RW	R	24	2022	Huntington Beach, California, United States
19	Ivan Drozdov	RW	L	24	2022	Vitebsk, Belarus
7	Matvei Guskov	C	L	23	2023	Niznekamsk, Russia
63	Dinar Khafizullin	D	L	34	2023	Kazan, Soviet Union
2	Pavel Koledov	D	R	29	2018	Novosibirsk, Russia
41	Nikolay Kulemin (A)	LW	L	37	2021	Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR
17	Gleb Kuzmin	F	L	27	2017	Voronezh, Russia
90	Josh Leivo	RW	R	30	2023	Innisfil, Ontario, Canada
51	Vyacheslav Leshchenko	RW	L	28	2023	Elektrostal, Russia
29	Semyon Lugovyak	D	L	26	2023	Moscow, Russia
21	Nicolas Meloche	D	R	26	2023	LaSalle, Quebec, Canada
33	Mikhail Naumenkov (A)	D	L	31	2020	Moscow, Russia
78	Denis Orlovich-Grudkov	RW	L	28	2023	Saint Petersburg, Russia
11	Grigori Panin (C)	D	L	38	2017	Karaganda, Kazakh SSR
68	Artyom Pimenov	F	L	27	2019	Sarapul, Russia
92	Alexei Pustozyorov	F	L	23	2020	Chebarkul, Russia
31	Alexander Samonov	G	L	28	2023	Moscow, Russia
86	Alexander Sharov	C	L	28	2023	Moscow, Russia
93	Sergei Shmelyov	LW	L	30	2021	Nizhnekamsk, Russia
72	Yegor Suchkov	F	L	22	2020	Chelyabinsk, Belarus
23	Yevgeny Timkin	RW	L	33	2022	Murmansk, Russian SFSR
73	Yaroslav Tsulygin	D	R	19	2022	Ufa, Russia
3	Alexei Vasilevsky	D	R	31	2023	Ufa, Russia
65	Vladislav Yefremov	F	L	28	2023	Novy Rozdol, Russia
50	Ilya Yezhov	G	L	37	2022	Krasnodar, Russian SFSR
52	Nikita Zorkin	D	L	23	2023	Moscow, Russia

Franchise records and leaders edit

Scoring leaders edit

These are the top-ten point-scorers in KHL history. Figures are updated after each completed KHL regular season.^[6]

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; = current Salavat Yulaev Ufa player

Points
Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	P/G
Teemu Hartikainen	LW	472	157	198	355	.75
Linus Omark	LW	285	70	201	271	.95
Alexander Radulov	RW	210	91	163	254	1.21
Kirill Koltsov	D	311	49	130	179	.58
Igor Grigorenko	RW	278	92	85	177	.64
Alexander Kadeikin	C	280	54	99	153	.55
Philip Larsen	D	253	43	105	148	.58
Sergei Zinovjev	C	207	48	90	138	.67
Vitali Proshkin	D	266	23	103	126	.48
Patrick Thoresen	C	110	53	69	122	1.10

Goals
Player	Pos	G
Teemu Hartikainen	LW	157
Igor Grigorenko	RW	92
Alexander Radulov	RW	91
Linus Omark	LW	70
Alexander Kadeikin	C	54
Patrick Thoresen	C	53
Alexander Chmelevski	C	53
Igor Mirnov	C	53
Antti Pihlström	LW	52
Kirill Koltsov	D	49

Assists
Player	Pos	A
Linus Omark	LW	201
Teemu Hartikainen	LW	198
Alexander Radulov	RW	163
Kirill Koltsov	D	130
Philip Larsen	D	105
Vitali Proshkin	D	103
Alexander Kadeikin	C	99
Sergei Zinovjev	C	90
Igor Grigorenko	RW	85
Dmitri Makarov	RW	70

Honours edit

Champions edit

Gagarin Cup (1): 2011
KHL Regular Season / Continental Cup (2): 2009, 2010
Opening Cup (2): 2008–09, 2011-12
Russian Superleague (1): 2008
Federation Cup (1): 1995
Soviet League Class A2 (5): 1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1992
Pajulahti Cup (1): 2003
Clas Ohlson Cup (1): 2009

Runners-up edit

KHL 2013–14, 2015–16
Continental Cup (1): 1997
Spengler Cup (2): 2007, 2014
Russian Superleague (1): 1997
IHL Championship (1): 1995

References edit

^ "Новым генеральным директором «Салавата Юлаева» стал Ринат Баширов" (in Russian). 2021-07-16. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
^ "Виктор Козлов продолжит карьеру в Уфе". HC Salavat Yulaev Ufa. 2009-06-09. Archived from the original on 2009-06-12.
^ "Venäläismedia: Suomalaiset KHL-pelaajat lähtevät joukolla Venäjältä". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
^ "Salavat Yulaev Ufa Team Roster" (in Russian). www.hcsalavat.ru. 2024-03-30. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
^ "Salavat Yulaev Ufa team roster". www.khl.ru. 2024-03-30. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
^ Salavat Yulaev Ufa KHL Scoring Leaders | QuantHockey.com Retrieved March 30, 2024