Minsk Dynamo players Pavel Razvadovsky and Dmitry Korobov will help Shakhtyor in the match against Gomel

On September 8, Minsk / Sergey Vishnevsky - BELTA /. Dinamo Minsk players Pavel Razvadovsky and Dmitry Korobov will help Soligorsk Shakhtar today in the Belarusian Ice Hockey Championship match against Gomel, the press service of Dinamo Minsk informed BELTA correspondent. The head coach of Dinamo Minsk and the Belarusian national team, Glen Hanlon, also went to Soligorsk for the match. He will observe the game of Shakhtar, which is a farm club of the capital team. Besides the match in Soligorsk, 5 more meetings will take place in the Belarusian Extraleague today: Keramin (Minsk) - Sokol (Kiev), Metallurg (Zhlobin) - Vitebsk, Shinnik (Bobruisk) - Khimik-SKA (Novopolotsk), Metalurgs (Liepaja) - Yunost (Minsk), Dinamo-Juniors (Riga) - Khimvolokno (Mogilev). After the match with the country's vice-champion Gomel, forward Razvadovsky and defenseman Korobov will return to Dinamo and continue their preparation for the Continental Hockey League championship, which starts on September 10 with a match between the Gagarin Cup finalists - Ak Bars Kazan and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. In this match, the first trophy of the new KHL season, the Opening Cup, will be contested. Dinamo Minsk will start in the KHL championship on September 12 with a match in St. Petersburg against the local SKA. And no later than a day before leaving for the banks of the Neva, on September 11, the captain of Dinamo Minsk for the upcoming season will be announced. Likely, only a day before the start, the coaching staff will also decide on the roster of players who will play in St. Petersburg. It is possible that someone from Shakhtar players will be called up to the main team. However, forward Jussi Makkonen will likely not play in the opening match of the season - the top scorer of the last Finnish championship is recovering from a knee injury. After returning from St. Petersburg, Dinamo will play three consecutive home matches, which will take place on the ice of the Minsk Sports Palace. The opponents will be the winner of the regular season 2008/2009, Salavat Yulaev Ufa (September 14), Avangard Omsk (September 16), and Barys Astana from Kazakhstan (September 18). More than half of the tickets for these matches have already been sold. And in the coming days, high-ranking hockey guests will arrive in Minsk on a business visit. The delegation of the KHL, led by league vice-president Vladimir Shalayev, chairman of the KHL Players' Union Andrey Kovalenko, as well as head of the Spengler Cup organizing committee Fredy Pargätzi, will visit the Belarusian capital. Their visit program includes communication with the press. A press conference with the participation of Shalayev and Kovalenko is scheduled for September 14 at 5:30 PM at the Minsk Sports Palace. Immediately after its conclusion, Fredy Pargätzi will also meet with journalists there. As is known, Dinamo Minsk will be the first Belarusian club to receive an invitation to participate in the oldest hockey tournament with over 80 years of history. The Spengler Cup traditionally features the local team Davos, sometimes strengthened by the best players of the Swiss championship, the Canadian national team, usually composed of players playing in European clubs, as well as, as a rule, the winner of the previous tournament. In December 2008, it was Dynamo Moscow. Other clubs are invited by the organizers. The Moscow team refused to participate in the Spengler Cup this time due to a tight schedule. The opponents of Dinamo Minsk, in addition to Davos and the Canadian national team, will be Mannheim (Germany) and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic). Moreover, the Czech and Swiss clubs are champions of their countries. The Spengler Cup was first held in 1923 and has been held 82 times since then. Its inspirer was the famous Swiss doctor and fighter against tuberculosis Karl Spengler. Davos (14 times) and the Canadian national team (11 times) have won the trophy most often. Among Soviet teams, Spartak Moscow (5 times) won the prize most often. In the sovereign history, three Russian clubs have become winners - CSKA Moscow (1991), Metallurg Magnitogorsk (2005), and Dynamo Moscow (2008). Throughout its history, the Spengler Cup has not been held only four times - in 1939, 1940, 1949, and 1956. -0-