Salavat Yulaev Ufa
CityUfa, Russia
LeagueKHL
2008–present
ConferenceEastern
DivisionChernyshev
Founded1961
Home arenaUfa Arena
(capacity: 8,250)
Colours       
General managerRinat Bashirov[1]
Head coachViktor Kozlov
CaptainGrigori Panin
AffiliatesToros Neftekamsk (VHL)
Tolpar Ufa (MHL)
Websitehcsalavat.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

Soviet era

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

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

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

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)

Players

Current roster

Updated 4 October, 2023.[4][5]

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


Franchise records and leaders

Scoring leaders

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

Honours

Champions

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

Runners-up

3rd place, bronze medalist(s) KHL 2013–14, 2015–16
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Continental Cup (1): 1997
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Spengler Cup (2): 2007, 2014
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Russian Superleague (1): 1997
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) IHL Championship (1): 1995

References

  1. ^ "Новым генеральным директором «Салавата Юлаева» стал Ринат Баширов" (in Russian). 2021-07-16. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  2. ^ "Виктор Козлов продолжит карьеру в Уфе". HC Salavat Yulaev Ufa. 2009-06-09. Archived from the original on 2009-06-12.
  3. ^ "Venäläismedia: Suomalaiset KHL-pelaajat lähtevät joukolla Venäjältä". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Salavat Yulaev Ufa Team Roster" (in Russian). www.hcsalavat.ru. 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  5. ^ "Salavat Yulaev Ufa team roster". www.khl.ru. 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  6. ^ Salavat Yulaev Ufa KHL Scoring Leaders | QuantHockey.com Retrieved March 11, 2023

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