Toros Neftekamsk

Toros fired coach

After six defeats in last seven games, Toros Neftekamsk announces the dismissal of coaching staff, headcoach Ruslan Suleymanov and assistant Nikolai Zavarukhin. The coaching duo of MHL-B team Batyr will replace them: Konstantin Polozov as headcoach and Pavel Lazarev as assitant.
Toros is currently 10th in the standing, 26 points behind leader Sary Arka

VHL Awards

VHL determined the awards for 2012-13 season at the General Meeting in St. Petersburg:

Best Goalie: Vladimir Kovac (Sary Arka Karaganda)

Best Defender: Sergei Karpov (Rubin Tyumen)

Best Forward: Pavel Kopytin (Buran Voronezh)

Best Rookie: Artyom Gareyev (Toros Neftekamsk)

Top Scorer: Aleksandr Shibayev (Dynamo Balshikha)

Best Coach: Ilnur Gizatullin (Ariada Akpars Volzkh)

Playoffs MVP: Vladimir Kokhatsky (Toros Neftekamsk)

SKA St. Petersburg and Toros Neftekamsk win pre-season tournaments

The President of Kazakhstan Cup came at the right time for KHL participants SKA St. Petersburg. With four wins in four games they dominated the tournament. Other KHL teams that played in the cup were Barys Astana and Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk along with the most traditional Kazakh team Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk and a "B" version of the Kazakh national team.

Already yesterday the Lada Cup ended. In a tournament of four VHL teams Toros Neftekamsk won the final 2-1 against HC Sarov. The other two participants were Lada Togliatti and Dizel Penza. Lada won the game for the 3rd place 3-0 against Dizel. A detailed overview you can find here.

Set for VHL finals

The 2011 champion Rubin beat Dizel 5-2 yesterday to win the semi final series 4-2 and qualify for the VHL finals against Toros. Toros beat Donbass 4-0 in the other series. The finals start April 17.

Toros has a new manager

The VHL team Toros Neftekamsk hired a new manager for the upcoming season: Valeri Nurgutdinov was appointed as director of the club. Nurgutdinov, 42, was director of the Department of Administrative and Social Welfare of the state company "Bashneft".