Bilyi Bars

Hockey Club Bilyi Bars Bila Tserkva (; ) is a Ukrainian team based in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. The club was a founding member of the Professional Hockey League of Ukraine and now playing in the Ukrainian Hockey League.
==History==
The Bilyi Bars were founded in 2008. They began play in Brovary (Kyiv Oblast).
Twice that team won the silver of the Ukrainian Hockey Championship (2008, 2009)
In 2012, the club found a new sponsor. The team moved permanently to Bila Tserkva on October 28, 2012 from Brovary, the city where they were founded. Following this, the team changed its name from HSK Bilyi Bars () to HC Bilyi Bars Bila Tserkva.
The home arena was opened on December 7, 2012.
During the 2013–14 season, the club were acting as a farm team to HC Donbass, that was playing in the Kontinental Hockey League at that time.
In 2014 the club won the third silver at the Ukrainian Championship. The name of the team playing up to the last minute has been assigned to Bilyi Bars.
The hockey club actively participates in the Ukrainian hockey Movement. 25 July 2011 Bilyi Bars were at a meeting of the ice hockey teams that created The Professional Hockey League. In the 2011–12 season, Bilyi Bars took the 7th place out of eight participants.
In the 2014–15 season, the team did not participate in the Ukrainian Hockey Championship.
3 June 2016 "Bilyi Bars" co-founded Ukrainian Hockey League that reorganized the Ukrainian Hockey Championship.
Since the beginning of its activity, Bilyi Bars HC relies on young Ukrainian hockey players, and in particular on youth from Bila Tserkva. Many hockey players who defended the colors of the junior and youth national teams of Ukraine passed the school team. In particular, the champions in the second division junior championship (U18) in 2011 were three former players of the club, and in the youth championship (U20) in 2012 - two former players. Therefore, the club received the informal title of Forge of personnel, which is his main achievement.
The 2017/2018 season has so far been the best in the history of the club - it finished 2nd in the standings (repeating the result of the 2013/2014 season) and scored 84 points.
September 5, 2019 Oleksandr Bobkin (Assistant Head Coach) Becomes Senior Coach of the Junior National Team of Ukraine (U-18).
==Present==
=== The Bilyi Bars Juniors ===
The Bilyi Bars pays much attention to youngsters. The young hockey players graduated from the sports school of the team, who played for the national team of Ukraine (Minor league). For example, in 2011 three Bilyi Bars became champions in the second division (U18). In 2012, two Leopards became champions (U20).
The HC "Bilyi Bars" owns the affiliate junior teams: U20, U17, U16, U15. Also the hockey club takes younger children to his school.
In April 2018, club juniors Mikhail Vasilyev, Bogdan Gritsyuk, Dmytro Danylenko, Sergei Logach, Feliks Morozov played for the Ukraine men's national under-18 ice hockey team (2018 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I B). Danilenko showed better result (3 goals and 5 assists). Morozov has 4 goals and 3 assists, Logach has 1 assist, Vasiliev has 1 assist. Danilenko has taken 2nd position, Morozov has taken 4th position in the overall rating of Division I B. Logach and Vasiliev took the 13th position in the ranking of defencemans.
Now Bilyi Bars recruit children in a sports school that were born in 2002—2003, 2005—2006, 2007—2008 and 2009—2011. Children's teams from Bila Tserkva go to the Ukrainian championships and specialized tournaments.
In the 2018/2019 season, the Bilyi Bars youth team became the junior champion of Ukraine.
===Coaching staff===
====Konstantin Butsenko====
Mr. Butsenko is the sport master of the international class. It is permanent head coach of team (except for 2013–14 seasonOlexander Kulikov led the team.). He played for Dynamo Kharkov, Sokil Kyiv, Avangard Omsk, Spartak Moscow, Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, SKA Saint Petersburg etc.
He played in the Ukrainian national team in 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999. At the world championships he got the result: 23 games played, 14 goals, 20 assists.
====Olexandr Bobkin====
Olexander Bobkin is assistant coach since 2015.
He is the sport master of the international class, ex player of the Ukrainian national team. Mr. Bobkin played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, Berkut-Kyiv, Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, Sibir Novosibirsk, Neftyanik Almetyevsk, Sokil Kyiv, Donbass, ATEK etc.
He played in the Ukrainian national team: 29 games played, 9 goals, 12 assists. Mr. Bobkin is champion of Ukraine (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2015).
On September 5, 2019 he became the senior coach of the U-18 junior team of Ukraine.
====Vitaliy Litvinenko====
Vitali Litvinenkoy is assistant coach since 2017. He is played for Dynamo Kharkov, Sokil Kyiv, Bilyi Bars, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, Lada Togliatti, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, Gomel etc.
Mr. Litvinenko played in the Ukrainian national team: 154 games played, 43 goals, 61 assists. He played at the 2002 Winter Olympics etc.
==Ice hockey statistics==
Sources:
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points
Season 	Team 	League	GP	W 	OTW	OTL	L 	GF 	GA 	Pts	Finish 	Playoffs
2008–2009	"Bilyi Bars"(Brovary) 	FHU 	29	16	2 	2 	9 	163	117	54 	2nd of 5	Final loss
2009–2010	"Bilyi Bars"(Brovary) 	FHU 	20	11	1 	1 	7 	97 	73 	36 	4th of 6	Bronze game loss
2010–2011	"Bilyi Bars"(Brovary) 	FHU 	24	6 	1 	0 	17	65 	137	20 	5th of 7	Quarterfinal loss
2011–2012	"Bilyi Bars"(Brovary) 	PHL 	42	6 	1 	3 	32	84 	196	23 	7th of 8	Did not make playoffs
2012–2013	"Bilyi Bars"(Bila Tserkva)	PHL 	36	4 	0 	5 	27	57 	158	17 	7th of 7	Did not make playoffs
2013–2014	"Bilyi Bars"(Bila Tserkva)	FHU 	24	13	6 	0 	5 	116	42 	51 	2nd of 5	Final loss
2015–2016	"Bilyi Bars"(Bila Tserkva)	FHU 	42	19	0 	1 	22	150	214	58 	5th of 8	Did not make playoffs
2016–2017	"Bilyi Bars"(Bila Tserkva)	UHL 	40	8 	2 	1 	29	96 	192	29 	5th of 6	Did not make playoffs
2017–2018	"Bilyi Bars"(Bila Tserkva)	UHL 	40	27	0 	3 	10	199	105	84 	2nd of 6	Semifinal loss
2018-2019	"Bilyi Bars"(Bila Tserkva)	UHL 	40	13	1 	1 	25	100	164	42 	4-е з 6 	Semifinal loss
==The current team roster==
Updated March 5, 2018
Goaltenders	Goaltenders	Goaltenders 	Goaltenders	Goaltenders 	Goaltenders
# 	Nation 	Player 	Catches 	Birthday 	Birthplace
1 	 	Alexei Loginov 	left 	25 November 1999	Kyiv, Ukraine
20 	 	Alexander Kachula	left 	10 July 2000 	Kharkiv, Ukraine
30 	 	Sergey Liulchuk 	left 	30 March 1994 	Kyiv, Ukraine
Defenceman	Defenceman	Defenceman 	Defenceman	Defenceman 	Defenceman
# 	Nation 	Player 	Catches 	Birthday 	Birthplace
2 	 	Mikhail Vasilyev 	left 	21 November 2000	
3 	 	Daniil Gritsenko 	left 	19 June 1999 	Kyiv, Ukraine
5 	 	Sergei Logach 	left 	22 June 2000 	Kyiv Ukraine
11 	 	Maxim Yadlovski 	right 	10 November 1996	Zolochiv, Ukraine
17 	 	Vladislav Gertsik	right 	19 June 2000 	Brovary, Ukraine
23 	 	Nikita Tabashnik 	left 	18 February 2000	Kharkiv, Ukraine
24 	 	Bogdan Gritsyuk 	right 	1 March 2000 	Vinnytsia, Ukraine
26 	 	Alexander Voronin	left 	22 October 1999 	Donetsk, Ukraine
28 	 	Bogdan Savchenko 	right 	18 July 2000 	
Forward	Forward	Forward 	Forward	Forward 	Forward 	Forward
# 	Nation 	Player 	Catches	Birthday 	Birthplace 	
4 	 	Maxim Romakhin 	left 	28 September 2000	Kyiv, Ukraine 	
9 	 	Nikita Lesnikov 	left 	6 October 1999 	Brovary, Ukraine	
10 	 	Alexander Naydyonov	left 	26 October 1999 	Brovary, Ukraine	
13 	 	Danil Vedmedev 	left 	14 May 2001 	 	
14 	 	Artyom Kozienko 	right 	6 November 1998 	Kyiv, Ukraine 	
16 	 	Danil Netesa 	left 	17 August 2001 	 	
19 	 	Rinat Durdyiev 	right 	30 June 2000 	 	
21 	 	Ivan Panov 	right 	6 February 2000 	Donetsk, Ukraine	
22 	 	Oleg Gumenyuk 	left 	25 December 2000 	 	
25 	 	Daniil Pecherskikh 	left 	25 October 1999 	Donetsk, Ukraine	
29 	 	Maxim Razumov 	left 	2 June 1999 	Brovary, Ukraine	
Centre	Centre	Centre 	Centre 	Centre 	Centre 	Centre
# 	Nation	Player 	Catches	Birthday 	Birthplace 	
7 	 	Dmytro Danylenko 	left 	10 April 2000 	Kyiv, Ukraine 	
8 	 	Vladislav Kutsevich 	left 	8 April 1994 	Kyiv, Ukraine 	
15 	 	Ruslan Romaschenko(team captain)	left 	2 February 1993	Kharkiv, Ukraine	
Right wing	Right wing	Right wing 	Right wing	Right wing 	Right wing 	Right wing
# 	Nation 	Player 	Catches 	Birthday 	Birthplace 	
18 	 	Kirill Bondarenko	right 	15 February 1996	Kyiv, Ukraine 	
27 	 	Feliks Morozov 	left 	7 March 2000 	Kharkiv, Ukraine	
Left wing	Left wing	Left wing 	Left wing	Left wing 	Left wing 	Left wing
# 	Nation 	Player 	Catches 	Birthday 	Birthplace 	
12 	 	Yevgeni Timchenko	left 	24 May 1996	Kyiv, Ukraine	
==Honors==
===Champions===
*IHFU Federation Cup: (1) 2008
===Awards===
* (2018) — the play off of the UHL.
==References==
==External links==
* Official team website
Category:Ice hockey teams in Ukraine
Category:Professional Hockey League teams
Category:Established in 2008