Eastern Europe Hockey Information

Belarus

Homepage: www.hockey.by
Senior World Ranking: 9
U-20 World Ranking: 10
U-18 World Ranking: 12

Current NHL'ers: Mikhail Grabovsky, Andrei Kostitsyn, Ruslan Salei

Estonia

Homepage: www.esthockey.ee
Senior World Ranking: 23
U-20 World Ranking: 22
U-18 World Ranking: 29

Current NHL'ers: None

Kazakhstan

Homepage: N/A
Senior World Ranking: 16
U-20 World Ranking: 12
U-18 World Ranking: 15

Current NHL'ers: Nik Antropov, Evgeni Nabokov, Dmitri Patzold

Latvia

Homepage: www.lhf.lv
Senior World Ranking: 10
U-20 World Ranking: 13
U-18 World Ranking: 10

Current NHL'ers: Raitis Ivanāns, Sandis Ozolinsh, Kārlis Skrastiņš

Lithuania

Homepage: www.ledas.lt
Senior World Ranking: 25
U-20 World Ranking: 24
U-18 World Ranking: 24

Current NHL'ers: Dainius Zubrus

Romania

Homepage: www.hochei.ro (Unofficial - Thanks aimbo!)
Senior World Ranking: 26
U-20 World Ranking: 26
U-18 World Ranking: 29

Current NHL'ers: None

Ukraine

Homepage: http://www.fhu.com.ua
Senior World Ranking: 15
U-20 World Ranking: 15
U-18 World Ranking: 19

Current NHL'ers: Ruslan Fedotenko, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Vitaly Vishnevski, Nikolai Zherdev, Alexei Zhitnik

If there are any other countries that are in this area that you would like to add to the list, please give a shout!

Also any ideas, questions, comments are all welcome here!

I like how you're putting an effort into this Eastern European hockey thing. I'll be checking in frequently.

Thanks Vyacheslav! Sounds good to me...

I'm hoping in the near future to put together an all-star hockey team containing these countries and see how we stack up against the rest of the world, should be interesting.

Thanks to "Fredrik" for adding the team page of Kazakhstan

You can add also Estonia:

Homepage: www.esthockey.ee
Senior World Ranking: 26
U-20 World Ranking: 27
U-18 World Ranking:25

Also Romania:

As the federation doesnt have a web page, there are two that are covering the hockey situation over here :

Hochei - English page (http://hem.bredband.net/hochei/)

or the (re)-newly created :
Hochei.ro (http://www.hochei.ro)

Just curious as to why the 2 countries like Lithuania and Estonia appear to be struggling with their hockey programs relative to other ex-Soviet Republics of Latvia, Belarus, the Ukraine?

And as an aside, how did Lithuania inherit the basketball talent?

I know Liepajas Metalurgs and HK Riga2000 compete in the Belarussian League with Sokol Kiev. But do they also compete in the Latvian League too? The schedule of the Belarussian league suggets that they will be hard pressed to find any room to play in their home league, but according to other sources they are playing in both.

I know Liepajas Metalurgs and HK Riga2000 compete in the Belarussian League with Sokol Kiev. But do they also compete in the Latvian League too? The schedule of the Belarussian league suggets that they will be hard pressed to find any room to play in their home league, but according to other sources they are playing in both.
yes, they compete also in their own league, look here: http://www.hockey.lv/?page_id=667

yes, they compete also in their own league, look here: http://www.hockey.lv/?page_id=667

It's the same situation in Kazakhstan where most clubs play both in the Russian leagues and in the Kazakhstan league. This makes them play more than 80 regular season games.

I've updated the list, both webpages and rankings.

- Added Estonia and Romania
- Added current NHL'ers
- Belarus and Ukraine have impressive new websites

Wow, you would think Ukraine would be a higher ranking with all those great players.

Wow, you would think Ukraine would be a higher ranking with all those great players.

None of those players play for Ukraine, at least on a regular basis. The UHF treat them as their own though.

None of those players play for Ukraine, at least on a regular basis. The UHF treat them as their own though.

How so?

How so?

They advertise them as their own on their website. Talk about them, update how they are doing in the NHL, that kind of stuff.

Oh, where is it on the website? I'm not seeing it

hockey.org.ua

i was wondering if anyone here knew for the ukrainian hokcey website if there is a button on it that you can press to translate it to english or not?

use altavista.com's babelfish translation, and try to translate the entire site under Russian-To-English

I dont know of any full site Ukie translators, and no there isn't an option for English on the actual website

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhockey.org.ua%2F&lp=ru_en&btnTrUrl=Translate