Berkut Hockey Club ( uk, ХК Беркут, ''HC Berkut'') was a

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professional

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 ...

team based in

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. While its home arena is in Brovary, within the

Kyiv region Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...

, it also played in the city of

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. It was a founding member of the

Professional Hockey League The Professional Hockey League (PHL) ( uk, Професіональна хокейна ліга (ПХЛ), '' tr: Profesional'na khokeina liha'') was an ice hockey league in Ukraine, founded in 2011; ceased in 2013. The country's national title, ...

of Ukraine, before being expelled by the League and forfeited from the 2013 playoffs. The organization's current focus is its youth development program. The team's name, Berkut, means

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History

Financial dispute

The team was expelled by the League and forfeited from the 2013 playoffs for not fulfilling its financial obligations to the League and to its players. Its former captain,

Serhiy Klymentiev Serhiy Volodomyrovych Klymentiev ( ua, Сергій Володимирович Климентьєв; born April 5, 1975) is a Ukrainian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Career Klymentiev was named best defenceman at the C Pool of the 1 ...

, along with goaltender

Igor Karpenko Igor Vasilovich Karpenko (, Ihor Vasylyovych Karpenko; born July 23, 1976) is a Ukrainian former professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Sokil Kyiv of the Professional Hockey League. He was selected 185th overall by the Mighty Duck ...

filed a lawsuit against the club at the conclusion of the season. It has since not taken part in the 2013–14 Ukrainian Hockey Championship season.

Name change

On 26 January 2014, it was announced that HC Berkut-2, a Ukrainian ice hockey team in the Amateur Hockey League would be changing so as to avoid association with '' Berkut'' forces in their role repressing

Euromaidan Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...

activists.

Players

Team captains

Roman Malov Roman Malov (born September 24, 1977) is a former Russian professional ice hockey player who played in the Russian Superleague (RSL). Malov was drafted in the seventh round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers and he played one s ...

2011 – 2012 *

2012 – 2013

Head coaches

* Dmytro Markovsky, 2011 – 2012 *

Miloš Holaň Miloš Holaň (born April 22, 1971) is a retired Czech professional ice hockey player and currently the head coach of HC Poruba of the 1st Czech Republic Hockey League, the second tier in the Czech Republic. He played 49 games in the National Ho ...

, 2012 – present

References

External links

Team History
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