HC Lada Togliatti (russian: ХК Лада) is a Russian professional

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team based in

Tolyatti Tolyatti ( rus, Толья́тти, p=tɐlʲˈjætʲ(ː)ɪ), also known as Togliatti, formerly known as Stavropol (1737–1964), is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the largest city in Russia which does not serve as the administrative center ...

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. They play in the

Supreme Hockey League The Supreme Hockey League (SHL) (russian: Высшая хоккейная лига (ВХЛ), links=no, ''Vysshaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)''), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league ...

(VHL). Due to a lack of a satisfactory arena, the KHL expelled the team. The team dropped one level to the VHL for the 2010–11 season. They were allowed to rejoin the KHL for the 2014–15 season after the opening of the

Lada Arena The Lada Arena is a 6,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Tolyatti, Russia. It opened in 2013, and replaced Volgar Sports Palace as the home of KHL ice hockey team, HC Lada Togliatti. The sponsor of the arena is the car manufacturer AvtoVAZ AvtoV ...

. However, the team was expelled again following the end of the 2017–18 season, and rejoined the VHL.

History

*July 1976 - team was founded as Torpedo Togliatti. *August 31, 1976 - first exhibition game against

Dizelist Penza The National Junior Hockey League (NMHL) (formerly Junior Hockey League Division B) (russian: Национальная молодежная хоккейная лига (НМХЛ)) is the second level of the Junior Hockey League, the KHL's junior ...

(final score was 3:3) * 1991 - Lada enters the ''Highest division'' of the

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. * April 1994 - Lada wins the International Hockey League's Russian Championship, becoming the first-ever team with non-Moscow origin to win the then-IHL Cup * December 1994 -

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

debut; silver medals won. * December 1995 - Lada becomes a vice-champion of

Spengler Cup The Spengler Cup is an annual invitational ice hockey tournament held in Davos, Switzerland. First held in 1923, the Spengler Cup is often cited as the oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world. The event is hosted by the Swiss tea ...

after a loss in Final game to Canadian national team. * December 30, 1996 - Lada wins

. * July 18, 2001 - Valeriy Postnikov quits team after having "attacks aimed at me by the media." * November 2005 - due to financial troubles, 16 players leave the team. To continue regular season, Lada management uses the players from reserve team. * January 2006 - Lada becomes first ever Russian team to win the

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Honors

Champions

IHL Championship ''(2)'': 1994, 1996
IHL Cup ''(1)'': 1994

''(1)'': 2006

''(1)'': 1996

Runners-up

Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague (russian: Чемпионат России Суперлига, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was consi ...

''(2)'': 1997, 2005

''(2)'': 2003, 2004
IHL Championship ''(2)'': 1993, 1995
IHL Cup ''(2)'': 1993, 1995

''(1)'': 1994

''(1)'': 1995

Season-by-season record

''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against''

References

External links

Lada Togliatti official websiteContinental cup 2006
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lada Togliatti Ice hockey teams in Russia Ice hockey clubs established in 1976 Sport in Tolyatti Former Kontinental Hockey League teams‎