HK Riga is an
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
club, based in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
,
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
. It was founded in 2009 to serve as the farm club of former
Kontinental Hockey League club
Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga ( lv, Rīgas Dinamo) is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It is a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LLU.
The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of ...
. The club played the 2009–10 season in both the
Latvian Hockey Higher League (which they won) and the
Belarusian Extraleague, but joined the Russian
Junior Hockey League
Junior Hockey League is a term used to refer to an ice hockey league in which junior hockey teams compete.
List of junior hockey leagues
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* Alberta Junior Hockey League
* British Columbia Hockey League
* Canadian Ju ...
(MHL), the junior league of the
Kontinental Hockey League, for the 2010–11 season.
References
External links
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2009 establishments in Latvia
HK Riga
Ice hockey clubs established in 2009
Ice hockey teams in Latvia
Junior Hockey League (Russia) teams
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