Viru Sputnik is an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
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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 playing in the
Meistriliiga
Meistriliiga (, known as the A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football (soccer), football championship. The league was founded in 1992, and was initially semi-p ...
but hasn't participated in it since the 2016-17 season. The club is based in
Kohtla-Järve
Kohtla-Järve is a city and municipality in northeastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946. The city is highly industrial, and is both a processor of oil shales and is a large producer of various petrochemical products ...
and the home arena is
Kohtla-Järve Ice Hall
Kohtla-Järve Ice Hall ( et, Kohtla-Järve jäähall) is an ice arena in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Fin ...
. Viru Sputnik has played in Meistriliiga since it was established in 2003.
In
2009–10 season they became the Estonian champions,
2008–09 and
2010–11 season they placed second.
Roster
*20 Jevgeni Jakubovits 07.02.1988
*? Aleksandr Sudas 13.02.1989
*5 Denis Golubev 01.09.1989
*7 Deniss Volodin 03.04.1988
*10 Aleksei Petrovits 18.06.1986
*12 Boleslav Kruglik 18.04.1988
*16 Siim Naarits 07.06.1992
*21 Ilja Ponomarjov 08.11.1991
*8 Vadim Bazura 26.01.1988
*? German Kurganov 03.03.1990
*? Maksim Urlihh 19.01.1991
*22 Sergei Mihhailov 17.01.1990
*? Ruslan Mamedov 19.02.1991
*14 Konstantin Gristsenko 08.06.1991
*24 Maksim Borovikov 13.02.1992
*? Sergei Silenko 12.03.1992
*? Toivo Tilku 04.04.1989
*? Dmitri Soitu 28.12.1989
*? Aleksandr Smetanin 25.05.1980
References
External links
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Ice hockey teams in Estonia
Sport in Kohtla-Järve
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