Black, white 1947 - 1953 - "Dzerzhinets"
1953 - 1958 - "Vanguard"
1958 - ... - "Tractor"
Story
As you might guess, “Traktor” got its name because it was founded on the basis of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in 1947. True, the first names of the team were “Dzerzhinets” and “Avangard”. The club began to be called "Traktor" from the 1958/59 season.
In the first season, the Chelyabinsk club won the right to play in the first group of class “A” teams. Traktor managed to get closer to the leaders for the first time in the 1954/55 season, when the club took fourth place. In 1972, Chelyabinsk residents managed to become finalists of the Spengler Cup. A year later, Traktor reached the final of the USSR Cup. In the decisive match, the Chelyabinsk team played with CSKA and even led the match with a score of 2:0, but in the end lost with a score of 5:2. Traktor won the USSR Championship medals in the 1976/77 season, when the team won bronze medals. Traktor hockey players often fell under the banner of the national team with which they won world championships and the Olympic Games.
After the formation of the MHL, Traktor managed to become a bronze medalist twice in the 1992/93 and 1993/94 seasons. In the 1999 season, Traktor flew to Major League, and managed to return to the elite only in the 2005/06 season.
The regular season of the first KHL season in 2008/09 began really well for Traktor. The Chelyabinsk team was in the top ten for a long time, but it did not do so well at the end of the championship and took twelfth place according to the results of the regular championship. In the first round of the playoffs, Traktor lost to Atlant Mytishchi. The Moscow Region team turned out to be head and shoulders above the Chelyabinsk team, winning three matches with a total score of 13:2.
The next season turned out to be difficult, primarily due to financial difficulties in the team. Traktor's budget was cut by thirty percent, as a result of which a number of its leaders left the club, including best player last season Oleg Kvashu. Despite the fact that Traktor scored only sixty-four points, the club still managed to make it to the playoffs. In the first round, the Chelyabinsk team met with Magnitogorsk Metallurg, to whom they lost with a score of 3:1. And already in the 2010/11 season, Traktor failed to make it into the playoffs with the same sixty-four points.
In the 2011/12 season, Traktor became, perhaps, the main discovery. In the summer, the Chelyabinsk club conducted a fruitful transfer campaign, managing to sign such star players as Bulis, Chistov, Garnett and Kontiola. Having started the regular championship neither shaky nor weak, “Traktor” showed more and more confident hockey with each subsequent match. For many fans, the victory of the Chelyabinsk team in the Continental Cup was a real shock. "Traktor" scored one hundred and fourteen points, ahead of St. Petersburg SKA for just one credit point. In the first round of the playoffs, the Chelyabinsk team's opponent was Khanty-Mansiysk "Ugra", which managed to win only one match out of five. Moreover, the third match of the series will be remembered by many, when Traktor managed to win 7:6, losing 2:6 during the match. Then “Traktor” met with Kazan “Ak Bars”, but the two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup also fell under the pressure of the Chelyabinsk team. The grueling series with Kazan played a role in the finals of the Eastern Conference, where Traktor lost to Avangard Omsk in five matches. At the end of the season, Traktor won bronze medals for the first time since 1994.
In the 2012/13 season, the Chelyabinsk club managed to retain Evgeny Kuznetsov, whom many had already matched to the NHL. Regular season Traktor finished in third place in the Eastern Conference. In the playoffs, Traktor won the Eastern Conference Cup and reached the finals of the Gagarin Cup for the first time. On the way to the first final in the history of the Chelyabinsk club they beat: Astana “Barys” (series score 4-3), Omsk “Avangard” (series score 4-1) and Kazan “Ak Bars” (series score 4-3 ). In the final of the Gagarin Cup, the “tractor drivers” played against the Moscow “Dynamo”, to whom they lost in a very stubborn series with a score of 2-4, thereby winning for the first time in their history silver medals and an honorable second place in the Kontinental Hockey League championship. This result was the best in the history of the Chelyabinsk team.
But Traktor failed to maintain its leading position. In the summer, the team was seriously updated, and not in better side. As a result, Traktor failed to make it to the playoffs, finishing in nineteenth place in the general table regular season.
Awards and achievements
Winner of the KHL Continental Cup: 2011/12
KHL silver medalist: 2012/13
KHL bronze medalist: 2011/12
Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship: 1976/77
Bronze medalist of the MHL Championship: 1992/1993, 1993/1994
The hockey off-season is coming to an end, the rosters of almost all teams have been formed - in some places they are already complete, in others the final approvals are being completed. In the news, we can only wait for spot changes or exchanges between clubs. What awaits Chelyabinsk Traktor for the 2018-2019 season? Will the team retain its “bronze” roster?
Beginners
The Yuzhnouralsk club does not have the financial resources to invite overly “expensive” hockey players. Therefore, their tactical “games” during the summer signing of contracts looked very interesting. The first high-profile purchase was the May acquisition of Alexander Bergstrom. Then new line-up“Traktor” for the 2018-2019 season was supplemented by Nikita Khlystov and Alexander Sudnitsyn, Ryan Stoa, Anton Glinkin and Evgeny Lapenkov.
Pavel Francouz, the former number one, went to conquer Colorado. And, apparently, Vasily Demchenko is now vying for the title of main goalkeeper. But the newly acquired Sudnitsyn, who is in brilliant physical fitness. The five clean sheets he played last year are excellent proof of this.
Alignment by links
The practically approved composition of HC Traktor for the 2018-2019 season allows us to reflect on the tactical arrangement of players during the match. The most likely groupings of players will be as follows:
- The first link will probably remain with the four legionnaires. Baylen as a defender, Shchekur - top scorer club last season, Gunge - distinguished himself in the playoffs. But Videll's departure should only be beneficial team game, because Berström played with Gunge in the Swedish national team, his skate is sharper and his speed on the ice is impressive.
- In the second line of the “old” there will only be a pair of defense left - Ryasensky and Nikitin. It is still unknown how the remaining players will be positioned. Head coach German Titov said that he wanted to try different options, including adding Anton Glinkin to the Kravtsov-Sharov pairing, or moving Sharov completely aside and strengthening Vitaly Sharov with the legionnaire Stoa, so that he would roll out the scorer, like Kirill Kaprizov once did. If this move works, a new young star will shine on the hockey horizon.
- The third and fourth links are pure fortune telling. Rotation is expected in both defensive pairs and forward combinations. It is still unknown whether three centers will be withdrawn at the same time, which of them will have to change their role, who will be replaced by newcomers. The first options will appear only after the Governor's Cup, which will start in just a few days. It is quite possible that the team coach will decide to put several test combinations on the ice in order to identify the most successful ones at the tournament and evaluate the level of training of each hockey player.
Important! For Traktor, the 2018-2019 season tournament will most likely also consist of shooting matches - when the composition of the team becomes clear during the game.
The team finished last season playing matches according to the “13+7” scheme. Considering that the application for participation must necessarily indicate two players under 20 years of age (and there are plenty of them in the Traktor 2018-2019 squad), high rivalry among the young players is expected. Isaev proved himself excellent last year, gaining momentum towards the end of the season, while Mamaev, on the contrary, shone in the first half of the championship. Participants of the 2018 Youth World Championship Alekseev and Shepelev probably dream of proving themselves and not sitting as reserves all year.
Expectations
The composition of HC Traktor for the 2018-2019 season is in no way inferior to the past. On paper, he even wins in some ways. The retired hockey players were replaced with equal performance. The team is expected to play brilliant, goal-scoring hockey. But the club’s defense remained at high level. It would be nice to find a defenseman with a spectacular shot, and if in 2018-1019 there are transfers within the KHL, then, most likely, Traktor will set its sights on such a hockey player.
Chelyabinsk will undoubtedly provide competition, and very serious competition, to top clubs. But will this be enough to stop being good middle peasants and get ahead? Fans of the club hope that under the leadership of Titov, who knows his business, all problems will be solved and the season will be successful!
Chronicle of events
March 2. Nikita Zhuldikov – defender. Contract for 2 years
+ March 2. Semyon Afonasyevsky - forward. Contract for 2 years
+ March 2. Ilya Zinoviev - forward. Contract for 2 years
+ March 10. Anvar Gatiyatulin – head coach. Contract for 2 years
+ March 10. Alexey Kruchinin – forward. Contract for 2 years
+ March 17. Alexander Shinin – defender. 1 year contract
+ March 17. Dmitry Pestunov – center forward. 1 year contract
+ March 17. Alexey Petrov – defender. 1 year contract
+ March 21. Vladimir Denisov – defender. Contract for 2 years
– May 1st. Andrey Popov – center forward. Expiration of the contract. NSA - to Ak Bars
– May 1st. Anton Glinkin – forward. Expiration of the contract. NSA - to Ak Bars
– May 1st. Alexander Rybakov - center forward. Expiration of the contract. NSA - at Dynamo Moscow
– May 1st. Semyon Kokuev – forward. Expiration of the contract. NSA - at Dynamo Moscow
– May 1st. Deron Quint is a defenseman. Expiration of the contract. NSA - at Red Bull Munich, Germany
– May 1st. Filip Novak - defenseman. Expiration of the contract. NSA
– May 1st. Martin Ruzicka is a forward. Expiration of the contract. NSA
May 4. Kirill Koltsov – defender. NSA. Contract for 2 years - from Torpedo
+ May 4. Paul Szczechura is a center forward. NSA. Contract for 1 year - from Dynamo Minsk
+ May 5. Jiri Novotny is a central striker. NSA. 1 year contract - from Lokomotiv
+ May 7. Igor Mirnov – forward. NSA. 1 year contract - from Ak Bars
– May 8. Nikita Khlystov – defender. WASP. Exchange to Ugra
– May 8. Mikhail Mokin - forward. Expiration of the contract. OSA - Sputnik Nizhny Tagil, VHL
– May 13. Egor Martynov – defender. Exchange to Avangard
– May 13. Evgeniy Nazarkin – defender. Exchange to Avangard
– May 13. Vyacheslav Krashennin – forward. Exchange to Avangard
May 13. Alexander Chernikov – forward. Exchange from Avangard
+ May 13. Yuri Petrov is a forward. Exchange from Avangard
+ May 13. Nikolai Glukhov – defender. Exchange from Avangard
+ May 20. Andrey Pervyshin – defender. 1 year contract - from Avangard
+ May 30. Michal Rzepik – forward. 1 year contract – from White Tigers Liberec, Czech Republic
+ June 1st. Alexander Sharov - forward. Re-signing on improved terms - contract for 3 years
– June 5. Vyacheslav Osnovin is a forward. Expiration of the contract. OSA - to CSKA (with monetary compensation to Traktor)
– August 4. Andrey Pervyshin – defender. Termination of contract
Composition of the "Tractor"
Goalkeepers
Pavel Francouz. June 3, 1990 – contract until 2018 – Czech Republic
Vasily Demchenko. March 16, 1994 – contract until 2017
Egor Nazarov. June 14, 1995 – bilateral contract until 2018
Gleb Evdokimov. July 5, 1990 – bilateral contract until 2017
Defenders
Vladimir Denisov. June 29, 1984 – contract until 2018 – Belarus
Kirill Koltsov. February 1, 1983 – contract until 2018
Nikolay Glukhov. April 28, 1995 – contract until 2017
Alexander Shinin. January 7, 1984 – contract until 2017
Alexey Petrov. February 1, 1983 – contract until 2017
Artem Borodkin. October 11, 1991 – contract until 2017
Nikita Zhuldikov. August 16, 1996 – bilateral contract until 2018
Konstantin Klimontov. October 15, 1990 – contract until 2017
Nikolay Belov. August 13, 1987 – contract until 2017
Forwards
Maxim Yakutsenya. February 14, 1981 – contract until 2018
Jiri Novotny. August 12, 1983 – contract until 2017 – Czech Republic
Michal Rzepik. December 31, 1988 – contract until 2017 – Czech Republic
Paul Szczechura. November 30, 1985 – contract until 2017 – Canada
Igor Mirnov. September 19, 1984 – contract until 2017
Dmitry Pestunov. January 22, 1985 – contract until 2017
Alexander Chernikov. September 8, 1984 – contract until 2017
Yuri Petrov. March 30, 1984 – contract until 2017
Alexey Kruchinin. June 9, 1991 – contract until 2018
Daniil Gubarev. October 15, 1991 – bilateral contract until 2017
Alexander Sharov. June 23, 1995 – contract until 2019
Semyon Afonasyevsky. October 15, 1996 – bilateral contract until 2018
Artem Penkovsky. February 20, 1995 – bilateral contract until 2017
Ilya Zinoviev. March 15, 1996 – bilateral contract until 2018
Head coach
Anvar Rafailovich Gatiyatulin
Coaches
Ravil Midekhatovich Gusmanov
Vitaly Alexandrovich Yachmenev
Goalkeeper coach
Konstantin Mikhailovich Strakhov
General Physical Training Trainer
Vadim Viktorovich Gudzik
Explanations
NSA – unrestricted free agent
OSA - restricted free agent
Time left until the Jokerit Tractor match:
News
In the 2017/2018 season hockey club Traktor, similar to last season, offers fans the following options for attending home matches:
1. Season pass, which includes admission to 28 Regular Season matches
2. A set subscription, which will include only those matches that the fan chooses independently
3. Family subscription
4. Single entry ticket to the game
Season pass
Season ticket holders receive a guaranteed seat for 28 regular season matches, a maximum discount of 15% if the season ticket is paid for 100%, and an exclusive gift (the number of gifts is limited).
An innovation this season will be a “golden” subscription and a dedicated entrance for owners of seats in sectors B3, B4, D2, D3.
Of course, season ticket holders receive a seat reservation and priority purchase of tickets for playoff matches.
Traditionally, seats for season ticket holders are reserved for redemption for the 2018/2019 season.
Similar to last season, the Traktor hockey club provides an opportunity for fans to purchase a season ticket in installments - 3 payments until November 20, 2017.
Dial subscription
From the list of matches according to the official calendar before the start of the Championship, you can select the matches you are interested in. There is a limitation - you cannot select less than 10 matches. The bundled subscription will be available for purchase on the club’s official website in the “Tickets” section and at the club’s box office.
Family subscription
The family subscription includes a package purchase of season tickets for home games of the Traktor team. When purchasing a family pass and paying 100% of it, the parent receives a maximum discount of up to 15% depending on the selected seats, a 30% discount for a teenager (under 18 years old) and a 50% discount for a child under 12 years old.
A family subscription with 100% payment is sold for any sector.
When paying in installments - for traditional sectors C2, C3 and D5.
Single entry ticket to the game
In the 2017/2018 season, after a seat inspection, some changes were made to the cost of rows and seats. In addition, this season the club offers 2 categories of matches: “standard” and “top”. The meeting on December 27 against Lokomotiv will be dedicated to celebrating the club’s 70th birthday; the ticket program for this match will be announced additionally.
The “top” category includes matches against SKA, Dynamo Moscow, CSKA, Avangard, Barys, Avtomobilist, Ak Bars, Salavat Yulaev, Kunlun Red Star, Magnitogorsk Metallurg.
Matches in the “standard” category include matches against Spartak, Admiral, Amur, Sochi, Neftekhimik, Vityaz, Jokerit, Slovan, Dynamo Riga, Lada, “Severstal”, “Torpedo”, “Sibir”, “Dynamo” Minsk, “Ugra”.
Once the sale of season tickets ends, all matches in the “standard” category will be immediately available for purchase. Ticket sales for top category matches will open several days before the match.
The group application system continues to operate as normal. If it is necessary to purchase more than 20 tickets or when forming a group from another city, the person in charge can contact the club with an application (http://hctraktor.org/tickets/additionally/group_bookings/).
Starting this season, it will be possible to purchase tickets to the restaurant (http://hctraktor.org/tickets/additionally/restaurant/), located on the 2nd floor of the Traktor Arena named after Valery Belousov on the official website in the “Tickets” section, not only at the club box office.
We also remind you that VIP boxes are available for purchase for one, several matches or a season (http://hctraktor.org/tickets/additionally/lodge/).
Tickets for games will be sold in a manner already familiar to fans; let us remind you of the points of sale:
- ticket office of LA "Traktor"
- Box office of DS "Yunost"
- Ticket office of DS "Traktor", Savina, 1
- Traktor official website hctraktor.org
- terminals of JSC "Uralprombank"
- website of the national ticket operator kassir.ru
Benefits
FREE attendance at matches:
- Hockey Veterans Council
- Persons with disabilities on a specially equipped platform
- Children under 4 years of age (with parents, without a seat) upon presentation of a birth certificate at the entrance to the Traktor Arena named after Valery Belousov;
- charity events
50% DISCOUNT
- PENSIONERS (upon presentation of a pension certificate when purchasing a ticket and at control at the Traktor Arena named after Valery Belousov);
- CHILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS OLD (upon presentation of a birth certificate when purchasing a ticket and at control at the Traktor Arena named after Valery Belousov);
15% DISCOUNT
- schoolchildren
- students
This season the club also provides a discount on tickets for schoolchildren and students in the amount of 15% of the nominal price. To purchase a ticket with a discount, you will need to present a student ID or a certificate from the school, and at the entrance control security staff will check your documents.
Timing of the ticket program
August 4, 18:00 – TraktorOpen festival site – start of sales of season, set, family passes and tickets for the first home match of the season “Traktor” vs “Avtomobilist”
Attention, on August 4, only the box office of the Traktor Arena is open; on August 5, you can also purchase a subscription at the box office of the Sports Palace "Yunost", LD "Traktor" and on the website hctraktor.org
August 4 – August 13 – reservation of a place for season ticket holders of the 2016/2017 season for redemption for the 2017/2018 season
Tractor pricing policy for the 2017/2018 season.
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