Posts About "Ukraine"
Q&A with Mykola Maiko, Head Coach of Ukraine’s Junior Team
October 17th, 2014 TheHockeyWriters talk to Mykola Oleksandrovich Maiko – the Head Coach of Ukraine’s Junior Team. Mr. Maiko has been coaching junior and men's teams in Ukraine since 1996 after he was forced to stop his own player career due to health reasons. As a coach he was coaching Ukraine’s national junior U18 and U20 teams as well as...
Ukraine Loses Chance of Holding World Championships
August 16th, 2014 Ukraine was forced to decide against holding the 2015 IIHF World Championships Division I Group A in Donetsk. The decision was made due to military unrest and disastrous humanitarian situation in the country’s East. Ukraine secured the right for holding the championship last May. Anatoliy Brezvin, Chairman of Ukraine’s Hockey...
Godynyuk Promoted to Head Coach of Ukraine
August 9th, 2014 Ukraine’s Ice Hockey Federation promoted Alexander Godynyuk to Head Coach on 5 August 2014. The decision of the Federation came after the resignation of Andrey Nazarov, who had asked for prior termination of his contract with Ukraine's Ice Hockey Federation. Alexander Godynyuk is one of the best players in Ukraine’s hockey...
The Ukrainian HC Donbass Faces Severest of Difficulties
June 21st, 2014 Ice hockey club Donbass from the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donets'k is into big trouble this year. Its Druzhba (English: Friendship) arena has been plundered and damaged by the separatist forces from the so-called Donets’k People Republic fighting for breaking away from Ukraine. The Druzhba arena was burned heavily in the night of...
Ukraine Hails New Ice Hockey Champs
March 18th, 2014 Kompanion-Naftogaz have become the winners of the Ukrainian ice-hockey championship. The title of champions has not been an easy task for the team, which had to go strong both through the regular season and through the play-offs. The truth must be said: in the conditions of extreme turbulence – social, political and economic – just...Does Ukrainian Hockey Bleed to Survive?
Ice hockey in Ukraine is the winter sport number one loved my millions of people all over the country. Ukrainian clubs starred in the Soviet league. The nation's many hockey players have done so in the Soviet Vysshaya Liga, in the NHL and other North American and European leagues. Now they are well-represented in the Russian leagues and...
