Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Торпедо Нижний Новгород
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod; Торпедо Нижний Новгород
	File:Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Logo.svg
Nickname	"Torpedo"
City	Nizhny, Nizhny Novgorod
League	KHL 2008–present RSL; 1996–1998, 1999–2001, 2003–2004, 2007–2008; Vysshaya Liga; 1998–1999, 2002–2003, 2004–2007; IHL; 1992–1996; Soviet League Class A; 1954–1992; Soviet League Class B; 1947–1954;
Conference	Western
Division	Tarasov
Founded	1946
Home arena	Trade Union Sport Palace; (capacity: 5600)
Colours
Owner(s)	GAZ Group
General manager	Viktor Levitsky
Head coach	Pēteris Skudra
Captain	Evgeny Varlamov
Affiliates	HC Sarov (VHL); Chaika (MHL)
Website	www.hctorpedo.ru
Franchise history
	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 1991–present; Torpedo Gorky 1946–1991;

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is a member of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.

The team used to play its home games at Konovalenko Sports Palace, named after Viktor Konovalenko – one of the most famous Soviet goaltenders, who played for Torpedo. It now plays at Trade Union Sport Palace.

History

The first official ice hockey tournament in Gorky (the Communist-era name of Nizhny Novgorod) took place in early 1947, when the team was the winner of the first Avtozavodtsev Cup. In the 1947–48 season, the team was in the national championship.

The 1960–61 season was the most significant in the history of Torpedo, with the team winning the Avtozavodtsev Cup and the Soviet Sport Cup, reaching the final of the Cup of the Soviet Union, and finally winning the silver medal in the national championship. Torpedo was the first provincial team to place in the USSR championship in 1961. Gorkovchan's success that year is attributed, primarily, to head coach Dmitry Boginova, who managed to create a strong and cohesive team in just a few years. Goalie Konovalenko was later a two-time Olympic champion and eight-time world champion.

Twice the team fell just short of the bronze in 1982 and 1985. In the 1980s, Gorky twice won the Thunderstorm Authority prize. The Torpedo players in those years were constantly being called to different teams, with some seasons including the loss of up to ten players to other teams.

In the championships of the MHL, RHL and Russia, which have been held since the Soviet collapse, Torpedo has not achieved significant success, with the best year in 1995, when the team placed fourth in the playoffs of the MHL championship.

Honours

Champions

Vysshaya Liga (2): 2003, 2007
Steel Cup (1): 2015
Dukla Cup (1): 2016

Runners-up

Soviet League Championship (1): 1961
USSR Cup (1): 1961
Spengler Cup (1): 1972

Season-by-season KHL record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, SOW = Shootout Wins, SOL = Shootout 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	24	24	1	84	162	162	3rd, Chernyshev	Pavel Brendl (50 points: 35 G, 15 A; 56 GP)	Lost in preliminary round, 3-0 (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
2009–10	56	22	27	4	75	154	163	4th, Tarasov	Pavel Brendl (37 points: 27 G, 10 A; 51 GP)	Did not qualify
2010–11	54	18	25	2	73	144	151	5th, Tarasov	Matt Ellison (50 points: 21 G, 29 A; 53 GP)	Did not qualify
2011–12	54	24	17	2	91	157	132	1st, Tarasov	Martin Thörnberg (39 points: 20 G, 19 A; 49 GP)	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2-4 (Dynamo Moscow)
2012–13	52	19	23	4	69	142	146	6th, Tarasov	Dmitri Makarov (43 points: 13 G, 30 A; 52 GP)	Did not qualify

Players

Current roster

Updated July 27, 2015.^[1]^[2]

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No.	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
39	Jan Muršak	C	R	36	2017	Maribor, Slovenia
31	Mikhail Alyapkin	G	L	31	2015	Podolsk, Russian SFSR
45	Artyom Alyayev	D	L	29	2015	Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR
37	Carter Ashton	C	L	33	2015	Winnipeg, MB, CAN
84	Tomáš Kundrátek	D	L	35	2017	Přerov, Czechoslovakia
13	Maxim Belopashentsev	D	L	29	2015	Yekaterinburg, Russia
14	Žiga Jeglič	RW	R	36	2017	Kranj, Slovenia
23	Vladislav Bogoslovsky	LW	L	29	2015	Moscow, Russia
8	Alexander Budkin	D	R	38	2015	Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR
16	Kaspars Daugavins	LW	L	36	2016	Riga, Latvian SSR
33	Nikita Dvurechensky	LW	L	33	2015	Lipetsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
24	Alexander Frolov	LW	R	42	2015	Moscow, Russia
10	Vladimir Galuzin	C	L	36	2008	Gorky, Russian SFSR
87	Evgeny Grachev	C	L	34	2016	Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
58	Daniil Ilyn	C	L	29	2015	Penza, Russia
37	Ivan Kasutin	G	L	38	2016	Vologda, Russian SFSR
48	Carl Klingberg	RW	R	33	2015	Gothenburg, Sweden
19	Roman Konkov	LW	L	31	2015	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
95	Vyacheslav Kulemin	LW	L	34	2013	Moscow, Russian SFSR
44	Alexander Makarov	D	L	35	2012	Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR
30	Nikolai Molkov	G	L	29	2015	Kstovo, Russia
11	Evgeny Mozer	W	R	31	2015	Omsk, Russia
21	Maxim Osipov	D	R	31	2014	Yaroslavl, Russia
7	Alexei Pepelyaev (A)	D	L	40	2014	Barnaul, Russian SFSR
77	Oleg Piganovich	D	L	39	2015	Yaroslavl, Russia
63	Maxim Kondratyev	D	L	41	2016	Tolyatti, Russian SFSR
89	Alexei Potapov (A)	RW	L	35	2005	Gorky, Russian SFSR
73	Ilya Proskuryakov	G	L	37	2015	Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union
62	Evgeny Rybnitsky	D	L	35	2015	Chelyabinsk, Russia
42	Dmitri Semin	C	L	41	2015	Moscow, USSR
63	Dmitri Shulenin	D	R	29	2015	Moscow, Russia
55	Denis Shurakov	RW	L	29	2015	Kirov , Russia
38	Mikhail Smolin	F	L	27	2015	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
26	Linus Videll	LW	L	39	2014	Stockholm, Sweden
9	Ivan Vishnevskiy	D	L	36	2016	Barnaul, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
2	Stanislav Yegorshev	D	R	37	2014	Cherepovets, Russia
52	Nikolai Zherdev	RW	R	40	2015	Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR