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HC Panter Tallinn
HC Panter is a professional ice hockey team located in Tallinn, Estonia, and playing in the Eesti Hokiliiga and Latvian Hockey Higher League. They play home games at the Škoda Ice Arena in the Haabersti district. History HC Panter were founded in 2001 by Rein Mölder and Olle Sildre, and participated in the following years Meistriliiga. A few years later in 2004, the team won their first, and as of January 2021 only, Meistriliiga title, beating PSK Narva in the play-off final. For the 2005-06 season, HC Panter also participated in the 2. Divisioona, the Finnish forth tier, ultimately finishing in 4th place in the Uusimaa conference. Following their time in Finland, the team were inactive between 2006 - 2011. They returned to Meistriliiga in 2011 as HC Panter/Purikad after a merger with Tallinn-based junior team HC Purikad. The team ultimately reverted to the HC Panter moniker in 2015. HC Panter were again inactive in the Meistriliiga from 2016 to 2020, instead focusing solel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
