City Yaroslavl, Russia Arena Arena 2000 Location Yaroslavl, Russia Affiliate Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | League VHL Head coach Petr Vorobiev Founded 2011 | |
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Home arena Arena 2000 (9,070 seats) | ||
Lokomotiv is an ice hockey team in Yaroslavl, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey. It is a farm club of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL. It was founded in 2011 after the entire KHL team along with its coaching staff died in a plane crash and consisted of MHL players of Loko Yaroslavl. When the franchise rejoined the Kontinental Hockey League in its 2012–13 season it was decided to keep a minor team in the VHL structure.
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