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Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
City	Yaroslavl, Russia
League	KHL; 2008–2011, 2012–present VHL; 2011–2012; RSL; 1996–2008; IHL; 1992–1996; Soviet League Class A ; 1987–1992; Soviet League Class A2 ; 1966–1967, 1968–1970, 1983–1987; Soviet League Class A3 ; 1967–1968, 1970–1983; Soviet League Class B ; 1963–1966;
Conference	Western
Division	Tarasov
Founded	1959
Home arena	Arena 2000; (capacity: 8,905)
Colours
Owner(s)	Russian Railways
President	Yuri Yakovlev
Head coach	Igor Nikitin
Captain	Alexander Yelesin
Affiliates	Molot-Prikamye Perm (VHL); Loko (MHL)
Website	hclokomotiv.ru
Franchise history
	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2000–present; Torpedo Yaroslavl 1965–2000; Motor Yaroslavl 1964–1965; Trud Yaroslavl 1963–1964; YaMZ Yaroslavl 1959–1963
	Current season

Hockey Club Lokomotiv (Russian: ХК Локомотив, English: Locomotive HC), also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team, based in the city of Yaroslavl, playing in the top level Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator.

On 7 September 2011, nearly the entire team perished in a plane crash. The team's flight to a game in Minsk crashed during takeoff, killing all of the team's roster (except forward Maxim Zyuzyakin, who was not on the flight), all coaching staff (except goaltending coach Jorma Valtonen, not on the flight) and four players from the Loko 9 juniors squad of the Minor Hockey League (MHL).^[1] The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the 2011–12 KHL season.^[2]

History

The team has been known previously by several different names:

YaMZ Yaroslavl (1959–1963)
Trud Yaroslavl (1963–1964)
Motor Yaroslavl (1964–1965)
Torpedo Yaroslavl (1965–2000)
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (2000–present)

The team generally played in the Second League of the Class "A" group during the Soviet era, being promoted to the First League of Class "A" for the 1983–84 season. Known as Torpedo Yaroslavl at that time, the team enjoyed moderate success under head coach Sergei Alekseyevich Nikolaev. Never a powerful club during the Soviet era, the team became a consistent winner with the creation of the Russian Superleague (RSL) following the collapse of the Soviet Union, winning its first RSL championship in 1997 under coach Petr Vorobiev. The club moved from Avtodizel Arena to the new Arena 2000 early in the 2001–02 season, and won consecutive league championships in 2002 and 2003 under Czech head coach Vladimír Vujtek, Sr. Vujtek left the club after the 2002–03 season for a contract offer from rival Ak Bars Kazan. Lokomotiv has not been able to replicate its success since that time, but has remained a perennial contender in the RSL and then the later KHL.^{[citation needed]}

2011 plane crash

On 7 September 2011, the Lokomotiv club was to travel to Minsk for its first game of the 2011–12 KHL season when the airplane that was carrying the team crashed following a botched take-off from Tunoshna Airport.^[3] Of the 45 passengers and crew on board, only flight engineer Alexander Sizov survived the crash.^[4] 26-year-old Lokomotiv forward Alexander Galimov, who had been with the team since 2004, was pulled out of the crash alive and conscious, but had burns to 80 percent of his body and died five days later in a hospital in Moscow.^[5]

Prior to the crash, the team played nine pre-season games, finishing with a 7–2 record. On 3 September 2011, in Lokomotiv's last pre-season game, at home against Torpedo, Galimov scored the team's last pre-crash goal in a 5–2 victory.

In the aftermath of the crash, KHL president Alexander Medvedev announced that a disaster draft would be held to allow Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to ice a team for the 2011–12 season.^[6] However, on 10 September 2011, the team announced its intention not to participate in the 2011–2012 KHL season, opting to play in the Supreme Hockey League (VHL) for one season before returning to the KHL.^[7] Former coach Petr Vorobiev returned to the team as its head coach for the VHL season. Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the following season would automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs, and the club could request allowance to use more than six non-Russian players in the KHL squad.^[8]^[9]

The accident was the second plane crash in Russia involving a hockey team; in 1950, the entire VVS Moscow team was killed in an air disaster near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg).^[10]

2012–13 season

On 9 April 2012, Tom Rowe, formerly an assistant coach with the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL), signed on as the team's new head coach.

For the 2012–13 KHL season, Lokomotiv added former NHL players Viktor Kozlov, Niklas Hagman, Staffan Kronwall, Curtis Sanford, Sami Lepistö and Vitaly Vishnevskiy. Vishnevskiy previously played for the club from 2008 to 2010. Defenseman Dmitri Kulikov signed on to play with Lokomotiv during the NHL lockout.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Season	GP	W	L	OTL	Pts	GF	GA	Finish	Top Scorer	Playoffs
2008–09	56	32	13	3	111	174	111	1st, Kharlamov	Alexei Yashin (47 points: 21 G, 26 A; 56 GP)	Lost in Gagarin Cup Finals, 3–4 (Ak Bars Kazan)
2009–10	56	26	17	4	96	163	132	3rd, Tarasov	Josef Vašíček (48 points: 21 G, 27 A; 56 GP)	Lost in Conference Finals, 3–4 (HC MVD)
2010–11	54	33	14	1	108	202	143	1st, Tarasov	Pavol Demitra (60 points: 18 G, 42 A; 54 GP)	Lost in Conference Finals, 2–4 (Atlant Moscow Oblast)
2011–12	22	13	6	1	42	68	47	3rd, Western	Oleg Yashin (15 points: 9 G, 6 A; 22 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2–3 (Dizel Penza)
2012–13	52	24	18	0	92	131	121	2nd, Tarasov	Sergei Plotnikov (33 points: 15 G, 18 A; 55 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Severstal Cherepovets)
2013–14	54	28	21	5	84	109	103	3rd, Tarasov	Sergei Plotnikov (35 points: 15 G, 20 A; 53 GP)	Lost in Conference Finals, 1–4 (Lev Praha)
2014–15	60	32	19	9	97	155	143	3rd, Tarasov	Yegor Averin (37 points: 16 G, 21 A; 59 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Dynamo Moscow)
2015–16	60	43	15	2	125	155	94	2nd, Tarasov	Daniil Apalkov (43 points: 16 G, 27 A; 59 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 1–4 (SKA Saint Petersburg)
2016–17	60	36	18	6	110	163	130	3rd, Tarasov	Brandon Kozun (56 points: 23 G, 33 A; 59 GP)	Lost in Conference Finals, 0–4 (SKA Saint Petersburg)
2017–18	56	35	18	3	99	148	129	2nd, Tarasov	Staffan Kronwall (35 points: 10 G, 25 A; 55 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 1–4 (SKA Saint Petersburg)
2018–19	62	40	16	6	86	159	118	2nd, Tarasov	Brandon Kozun (41 points: 19 G, 22 A; 52 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 1–4 (SKA Saint Petersburg)
2019–20	62	34	23	5	73	170	151	2nd, Tarasov	Denis Alexeyev (37 points: 6 G, 31 A; 57 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2–4 (Jokerit)
2020–21	60	38	15	7	83	181	126	3rd, Tarasov	Pavel Kraskovsky (38 points: 17 G, 21 A; 56 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 3–4 (CSKA Moscow)
2021–22	47	23	15	9	55	113	103	4th, Tarasov	Reid Boucher (27 points: 12 G, 15 A; 46 GP)	Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 0–4 (CSKA Moscow)
2022–23	68	41	17	10	92	164	122	2nd, Tarasov	Maxim Shalunov (42 points: 29 G, 13 A; 62 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 3–4 (CSKA Moscow)
2023–24	68	44	19	5	93	174	139	2nd, Tarasov	Maxim Shalunov (36 points: 17 G, 19 A; 68 GP)	Lost in Gagarin Cup Finals, 0–4 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)

Players

Current roster

Updated 6 August 2024.^[11]^[12]


No.	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
19	Raul Akmaldinov	D	R	22	2022	Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
91	Denis Alexeyev	C	R	27	2017	Gubkin, Russia
5	Alexei Bereglazov	D	L	30	2023	Magnitogorsk, Russia
72	Maxim Beryozkin	RW	R	23	2019	Chita, Russia
50	Daniil But	LW	R	19	2022	Yaroslavl, Russia
73	Nikita Cherepanov	D	L	29	2016	Yaroslavl, Russia
51	Byron Froese	C	R	33	2024	Winkler, Manitoba, Canada
28	Martin Gernat	D	L	31	2023	Košice, Slovakia
92	Daniil Isayev	G	L	24	2018	Yaroslavl, Russia
10	Georgi Ivanov	C	L	26	2017	Yaroslavl, Russia
16	Artur Kayumov	LW	L	26	2016	Podgorny, Russia
7	Nikita Kiryanov	C	L	22	2023	Perm, Russia
25	Alexei Kozhevnikov	D	L	22	2022	Chita, Russia
63	Pavel Kraskovsky (A)	C	L	28	2013	Yaroslavl, Russia
32	Yaroslav Likhachyov	LW	R	23	2022	Yaroslavl, Russia
38	Alexei Melnichuk	G	L	26	2023	Saint Petersburg, Russia
13	Stepan Nikulin	LW	R	23	2021	Yaroslavl, Russia
90	Alexander Polunin	LW	R	27	2021	Moscow, Russia
47	Alexander Radulov	RW	L	38	2024	Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR
87	Rushan Rafikov (A)	D	L	29	2015	Saratov, Russia
99	Andrei Sergeyev	D	R	33	2022	Simferopol , Ukrainian SSR
78	Maxim Shalunov	C	L	31	2021	Chelyabinsk, Russia
26	Dmitri Simashev	D	L	19	2022	Kostroma, Russia
70	Yegor Surin	C	L	18	2023	Voronezh, Russia
89	Daniil Tesanov	C	R	23	2020	Yaroslavl, Russia
97	Alexander Volkov	C	L	21	2022	Lyubertsy, Russia
4	Alexander Yelesin (C)	D	R	28	2021	Yaroslavl, Russia

Honors

Champions

Russian Superleague (3): 1997, 2002, 2003
Opening Cup (1): 2024-25
Minsk Cup (1): 2017
Longi Kahoo Cup (3): 2010, 2011, 2017
Junior tournament President Cup (Trinec) (1): 2016/2017