HC MVD Moscow Oblast
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MVD | |
Founded | 1949 |
Home ice | Balashikha Arena |
Based in | Podolsk, Russia |
Colours | Blue, white, red |
League | Continental Hockey League |
Head coach | Oļegs Znaroks |
HC MVD (Russian: ХК МВД) is a Russian professional ice hockey club.
[edit] History
MVD Moscow Oblast was founded in 1949 as Spartak Kalinin, and was known as HC Kalinin from 1952 to 1961, SKA MVO Kalinin from 1961, MVD Tver in 2004, and adopted its current name when the team moved from Tver to Podolsk, Moscow Oblast in 2006. In the same year, they qualified for the Russian Hockey Super League play-off for the first time, losing to Aq Bars Kazan in a hard-fought series.