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Vaasan Sport Naiset

Vaasan Sport Naiset were a women's ice hockey team in Finland. They played in Vaasa, on the west coast of Finland, at the Vaasan Sähkö Areena. Founded in 1983, the team most recently played in the Naisten Liiga from the 2018–19 season until being relegated at the conclusion of the 2021–22 season . The team was dissolved following relegation.
==History==
The women’s representative team of Vaasan Sport debuted in the Naisten SM-sarja, predecessor of the Naisten Liiga, in the 1983–84 season. Sport quickly established themselves as a competitive team, finishing in the top half of the league during their first five seasons and achieving Finnish Championship bronze in 1986. The 1988–89 season was the first time the team finished in the bottom of the league, ranking seventh of eight teams. Following the disappointing season, the team was financially relegated.
Vaasan Sport gained promotion to the SM-sarja in 1993 but the team struggled with the high level of competition and finished in last place. They were able to stave off relegation in the 1993–94 qualifiers but were unable to do so in the following season and were relegated to the Naisten I-divisioona (renamed Naisten Mestis in 2012) in 1995.
In the following two decades, Vaasan Sport played in either the second-tier I-divisioona or third-tier Naisten II-divisioona (renamed Naisten Suomi-sarja in 2003). The team spent at least seven consecutive seasons in the Suomi-sarja prior to their return to the Mestis in the 2015–16 season. The return to Mestis marked a positive shift in the performance of the team and they continued to markedly improve over the ensuing seasons, culminating in their promotion to the Naisten Liiga for the 2018–19 season.
== Team honours ==
=== Finnish Championship ===
* Naisten SM-sarja Third Place (1): 1986
==References==
Category:Ice hockey teams in Finland
Vaclav Pondelicek

Vaclav Pondelicek (born May 20, 1888) was a Bohemian goaltender who was a member of the Bohemian National Team at the 1914 European Championship.
He played club hockey for SK Slavia Praha. 
==References==
*
==Credits==
Special thanks to Patrick H. for supplying the photograph of this player.
Category:Bohemian players
Vaillant Arena

Vaillant Arena (Eisstadion Davos) is an arena in Davos, Switzerland. It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of HC Davos. It holds 7,080 people, of which 3,280 are seated. Every year the Spengler Cup is played in this arena.
At the beginning of the 20th century HC Davos played home games at an outdoor ice rink. The first attempt to cover the ice rink came around 1970. Soon after work began on the wooden enclosure, the project was stopped because of a lack of funds.
In 1979 HC Davos, qualified for the Nationalliga A and a covered rink was necessary. Construction finished on the wooden structure, allowing the team to participate in the 1979/80 season. It was not until the 1981/82 season that the arena was then "closed" by glass panes.
In 1998 the west tribune was renovated and instead of a big standing area, a two-level section with plastic seats was built. At that time the arena could hold up to 7,680 people.
In summer 2005 a new, modern, tribune was built, which included the restaurant “Nordside”, VIP rooms, a sector for sponsors, and new changing rooms were built in the northern sector. Capacity was subsequently reduced by the new construction to 7,080 people. The renovations continued in 2006 with small investments in the security of the southern and eastern tribune and screens for advertising.
In January 2007 the indoor ice-hockey rink was renamed "Vaillant Arena" after the Vaillant Group paid three million Swiss francs to help fund future renovations.
==Gallery==
File:Südtribüne.vailant.arena.davos.outside.jpg|Outside
File:Innenaufnahme Vaillant Arena Davos.JPG|Vaillant Arena during the 2006 Spengler Cup
Category:Arenas in Switzerland
Valais Cup

The Valais Cup was a tournament played in Switzerland from 1958 to 1967.
==Champions==
*1958: HC Viège
*1959: HC Viège
*1960: HC Viège
*1961: HC Viège
*1962: HC Viège
*1963: HC Viège
*1964: HC Viège
*1965: HC Martigny
*1966: HC Sion
*1967: HC Sion
Category:Tournaments
Valascia

Valascia is an indoor sporting arena located in Ambrì, Switzerland. The capacity of the arena is 7,000 and was built in 1959. It is the home arena of the HC Ambri-Piotta ice hockey team of the National League A (NLA). The ends of arena are open air, making a hockey being played there partially outdoor.
The team is set to move into a newly built arena within the same area in the near future. The Valascia will then be demolished as it is located in a potential avalanche path. 
==External links==
*Venue information
Category:Arenas in Switzerland
Valbo HC

Valbo HC is an ice hockey team in Valbo, Sweden. They play in the Swedish Division 2, the fourth level of ice hockey in Sweden. Their home arena is the Borr & Tång Arena, which opened in 1999.
==History==
The club was founded in 2007 when the ice hockey section became independent from Valbo AIF.
Valbo had previously played in the third-level Division 1, but were relegated to Division 2 following the 2012-13 Division 1 season.
==External links==
*Official website
*Team profile on eurohockey.com
Category:Ice hockey teams in Sweden
Vancouver Amazons

The Vancouver Amazons were a women's ice hockey team from the 1920s. They were the first women's hockey team from Vancouver to participate in the invitational women's hockey tournament sponsored by the Banff Winter Carnival. The Amazons competed in 1921. The Amazons qualified for the final that year but were defeated. The team was owned by Frank Patrick, who also owned the Vancouver Millionaires. Patrick would organize a tournament featuring the Amazons, the Seattle Vamps and the Victoria Kewpies. The Amazons went undefeated in the tournament and did not allow a goal. The Amazons were West Coast Women's champions. As the tournament featured a team from the United States, many consider this the first ever international women's hockey competition.
At the Banff tournament in 1922, Elizabeth Hinds became the first woman from British Columbia to score a hat trick in a game. Phebe Senkler was captain of the Amazons and her sister Norah played on defense. The forwards were Kathleen Carson and Nan Griffith, while the goaltender was Amelia Voitkevic. The bench featured Lorraine Cannon and Mayme Leahy. The Amazons qualified for the 1922 final and played the Calgary Regents. In the third period, the Amazons were down 1–0, and Kathleen Carson tied the game. Carson would score the game-winning goal in overtime and were awarded the Alpine Club Cup.
==Second team==
The new version of the Vancouver Amazons was founded in 1931. The club was organized by competitive speed skater Doris Parkes. Former Fernie Swastikas player Belva Graves was now a member of the team.Women on Ice: The Early Years of Women's Hockey in Western Canada, Wayne Norton, p.102, Ronsdale Press, 2009, 
==References==
Category:Ice hockey teams in Canada
Vancouver City Senior League

The Vancouver City Senior League started play in the 1911-12 season after the Patrick Brothers opened Canada's first artificial ice arena in[Vancouver, British Columbia. While the arena was mostly for the local professional team, it had enough open dates for some amateur leagues.
The league did not enjoy great popularity. It competed against major league hockey until 1926. The mild weather in Vancouver did little to increase hockey's popularity. The city was relatively isolated from the rest of Canada so there was little competition from outside.
The league won every British Columbia Senior Championship through 1922-23. Then the West Kootenay League started on a streak of its own. The weakness of the Vancouver teams further reduced the league's popularity and the league went steadily downhill.It operated sporadically in the 1930's before folding in 1938.
==List of Champions==
*1911-12 Vancouver Columbias
*1912-13 Vancouver Rowing Club
*1913-14 Vancouver Columbias
*1914-15 Vancouver Black Brothers
*1916-17 Vancouver Towers
*1918-19 Vancouver Towers
*1919-20 Vancouver Towers
*1920-21 University of British Columbia
*1921-22 Vancouver Towers
*1922-23 Vancouver Young Liberals
*1923-24 Vancouver Towers
*1924-25 Vancouver Towers
*1925-26 Vancouver Towers
*1926-27 Vancouver Towers
*1927-28 Vancouver Monarchs
*1928-29 Vancouver Ex-King George
*1929-30
*1930-31 Vancouver All Stars
*1931-32 Vancouver Ex-King George
*1932-33 Vancouver Maple Leafs
*1933-34 Vancouver Associated Quakers
*1934-35 Vancouver Cubs
*1935-36 Vancouver Cubs
*1936-37 Vancouver Canadians
*1937-38 Vancouver Canadians
Category:Ice hockey leagues
Vancouver Commercial League

The Vancouver Commercial League was a senior amateur league in Vancouver, British Columbia. It operated around 1910 to 1920.
Its teams were not classified as amateur by the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association and were not eligible for Allan Cup competition. That was because the teams were sponsored by commercial organizations.
Sometimes an all-star team from the league was able to enter the playoffs.
The Vancouver Black Brothers were one of the better teams in the league.
Category:Ice hockey leagues
Vanke Rays

The Shenzhen Vanke Rays (Chinese: 深圳万科阳光) were a women's ice hockey team that played in the 2017–18 season of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). They were based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and played at the Shenzhen Dayun Arena. The team was developed along with the Kunlun Red Star WIH as part of the Chinese Ice Hockey Association (CIHA) in an effort to grow interest in ice hockey in China in preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Both teams debuted in the 2017–18 CWHL season. The general manager was Shirley Hon, who was named to the position on August 18, 2017.
In 2018, the CWHL contracted the Rays' membership after one season to focus solely on the Kunlun Red Star team in China. Shortly after, Kunlun Red Star was rebranded as the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays as the CWHL integrated the two teams.
==References==
==External links==
* (Archived)
Category:Ice hockey teams in China
Varberg Vipers

Varberg Vipers, also known as Varberg Hockey or Varberg HK, is a Swedish ice hockey club located in Varberg. The club played the Hockeyettan from 2014-2016, the third tier of Swedish ice hockey. It currently plays in the fifth-level Swedish Division 3. The club plays its home games in Varbergs Ishall, which has a capacity of 544 spectators.
==References==
==External links==
*Official website
*Club profile on Eliteprospects.com
Category:Ice hockey teams in Sweden
Varmlandsserien

The Varmlandsserien was a competition held in the eponymous region of Sweden from 1941 to 1956.
==Seasons==
*1941-42 see Swedish ice hockey results (1923-1945)
*1947-48 Varmland season
*1951-52 Varmland season
*1952-53 Varmland season
*1953-54 Varmland season
*1954-55 Varmland season
*1955-56 Varmland season
Category:Ice hockey leagues
Vatra Ivano-Frankivsk

Vatra Ivano-Frankivsk is an ice hockey team in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The club was founded in 2007.
They played in the Western Division (also known as Division C in 2009-10) of the Ukrainian Hockey League during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. They finished first in the Western Division and made it to the second round of the playoffs in 2009.2008-09 season on hcexpress.lviv.ua They again finished first in their group in 2010, but this time lost in the first round of the playoffs to Donbass Donetsk.2009-10 season on hcexpress.lviv.ua
==References==
==External links==
*Team profile on hockeyarenas.net
*Team profile on eurohockey.com
Category:Ice hockey teams in Ukraine
VdS Tilsit

Verein der Schlittschuhlaufer (VdS) Tilsit was an ice hockey team in Tilsit, Germany (nowadays Sovetsk, Russia). The club played in the 1929 German Ice Hockey Championship, finishing third in Group A after losing both of their games by a combined score of 17-2. They also competed in the regional East Prussian Championship.
Category:Ice hockey teams in Germany
VehU Tampere

VehU Tampere (full name: Vehmaisten Urheilijat) is a sports club in Tampere, Finland.
VehU formerly had a hockey section. They won the Northern Group of the Suomi-sarja in 1968 and were promoted to the SM-sarja for the following year. 
After losing 20 out of 22 games in the SM-sarja, VehU was relegated back to the second-tier competition.
Category:Ice hockey teams in Finland
Veltins-Arena

Veltins-Arena ( originally Arena AufSchalke) is a football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It opened in 2001, as the new home ground for German Fußball-Bundesliga club Schalke 04.
It hosted the 2004 UEFA Champions League final and 5 matches in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, including a quarter-final. It has a league capacity of 62,271 (standing and seated) and an international capacity of 54,740 (seated only). The stadium has a retractable roof and a retractable pitch. The naming rights to the stadium were sold on 1 July 2005 to the German brewery Veltins.
The opening game of the 2010 IIHF World Championship took place at Veltins-Arena on 7 May 2010. At this occasion the crowd of 77,803 set a then World Record for ice hockey attendance. The host team Germany beat the United States 2-1 in overtime.
==References==
Category:Arenas in Germany
Venezuela men's national ice hockey team

The Venezuela national ice hockey team (Spanish: Selección de hockey sobre hielo de Venezuela) is the national men's ice hockey team of Venezuela, and is controlled by the Venezuelan Ice and Inline Hockey Association, the governing body that oversees both ice and inline hockey in the country. Venezuela is not a member of the IIHF and therefore not eligible to enter any IIHF World Championship events.
==History==
There are only two notable players who were born in Venezuela are Rick Chartraw and Don Sprin], who both played in the NHL. Chartraw played in the NHL for ten seasons between 1974 and 1984, most notably winning four Stanley Cups in a row with the Montreal Canadiens between 1976 and 1979, and one with the Edmonton Oilers in 1984, while Spring played for four season with the Winnipeg Jets between 1980 and 1984. Chartraw represented the United States at the 1976 Canada Cup, while Spring represented Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Venezuela made its debut in international competition in 2018 at the Amerigol LATAM Cup, sanctioned by the Amerigol International Hockey Association, which took place in Coral Springs, Florida, United States.2018 LATAM CUP The team played its first official game against Colombia on 9 November, falling to them 12–1. After an 0–3 start, they played their fourth game on 10 November and went on to win 5–3 against Brazil, eliminating them in the preliminary round and advanced to the Amerigol LATAM Cup semi-finals. The team once again played against Colombia on 11 November, but they were shutout by them 13–0, finishing in fourth place as the semi-finalist.
In the 2019 Amerigol LATAM Cup, the team won 8–4 against Chile and later won 5–3 against the Mexico Selects team. In the semi-finals, they lost 7–4 to Colombia and later in the bronze medal game, lost 3–2 to the Mexico Selects team, finishing in fourth place for the second straight year.
==Tournament record==
===Amerigol LATAM Cup===
Year 	Host 	Result 	 	 	 	 	
2018 	Coral Springs	4th place 	5 	1 	0 	0 	4
2019 	Coral Springs	4th place 	4 	2 	0 	0 	2
2020 	Coral Springs	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 	Coral Springs	6th place 	4 	1 	0 	0 	3
2022 	Coral Springs	9th place 	4 	2 	0 	0 	2
2023 	Coral Springs	To be determined 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
Total	Total 	5/6 	17 	6 	0 	0 	11
==All-time record against other national teams==
Last match update: 26 March 2022
 Key
    	Positive balance (more Wins)
    	Neutral balance (Wins = Losses)
    	Negative balance (more Losses)
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	4 	0	0	4 	12	39
 	2 	2	0	0 	13	6
 	1 	1	0	0 	8 	4
 	5 	1	0	4 	11	40
 	1 	0	0	1 	0 	12
 	1 	0	0	1 	2 	7
 	1 	0	0	1 	1 	5
Total	15	4	0	11	47	103
==References==
==External links==
*Ice Hockey Venezuela 
*Venezuela at National Teams of Ice Hockey
Category:National ice hockey teams
Venus Bucharest

Venus Bucharest was a sports club established in the old Venus neighborhood in Bucharest, Romania, in 1914.
The hockey section was created in 1938 at the behest of Andrei Barbulescu after HC Bragadiru Bucharest was disbanded. They won the Category II Championship of Bucharest easily in their first season.
In 1938-39, Venus finished atop the table of the Liga Regionala du Sud in the first round, but lost to Telefon Club Bucharest in the final. They qualified for the Romanian Championship in 1940, making it all the way to the final, where Rapid Bucharest was victorious, 5-2. 
Venus again lost in the championship finals in 1941 and 1942, falling to Juventus Bucharest on both occasions. In 1943, they did not qualify for the national championship (which was eventually cancelled anyway) after their 6-3 win against Viforul-Dacia Bucharest was changed to a 5-0 defeat due to the use of an ineligible player. In protest, Venus did not appear for their match against Juventus, which was also counted as a 5-0 forfeit loss.
The club won their first and only Romanian Championship in 1944, defeating Juventus Bucharest 2-0 in the first game of the finals. They clinched the title with a 9-1 win over Universitatea Sibiu. Barbulescu, Venus' hockey director, initially claimed the club need not play Juventus again as they had defeated them twice already. The match did go on, but Barbulescu received a one year ban from the federation for "unsportsmanlike conduct". 
Venus and Juventus met again for the Romanian Championship in 1945. Juventus won a tightly-contested match 1-0. Demoralized by the defeat, several Venus players announced they were giving up hockey, although the club did exact revenge on Juventus with a 2-1 win in the Cupa Nicusor Grecescu.
They finished third in the 1945-46 championship, but did not take part in any hockey competitions after that. The sports club itself was dissolved in 1948.
Category:Ice hockey teams in Romania
Verbandspokal

The Verbandspokal (English: Federation Cup) was a tournament contested in Austria in the 1936-37 and 1937-38 seasons. It served as the successor to the Josef Albrecht Verbandspreis.
The competition consisted of the same four teams that participated in the Austrian State Championship in both 1937 and 1938. Each team had to play against one another twice. After three wins, the cup was to be earned permanently. 
The games the Vienna teams played against each other in the Vienna Championship (Liga) carried over to the Verbandspokal. The contests between the Provincial and Vienna clubs from the State Championship were also allowed to be included as a result of the Verbandspokal. There was only one game that counted at the same time for the State Championship and the Verbandspokal.
The cup was not contested again after the German Anschluss of Austria in March 1938. Thus, no team had the opportunity to claim it for good.
==Champions==
Season	Champion 	Runner-up
1937 	Wiener EV 	EK Engelmann Wien
1938 	EK Engelmann Wien	Wiener EV
==Sources==
*Der Eishockeysport - official publication of the OEHV
*SportTagblatt newspaper
Category:Tournaments
Verein Kunsteisbahn am Sportplatz Engelmann

Verein Kunsteisbahn am Sportplatz Engelmann was formed at the Engelmann skating rink, situated in Vienna, Austria, on November 26, 1906.
The association had set itself with the task of creating the first open-air ice rink in Austria. On November 10, 1909, this facility was opened in Vienna. In November 1914 the club decided to set up its own ice hockey team. In December 1914, the foundation of the association was approved by the association board. 
The club participated in the Vienna Ice Hockey Championship starting in 1914-15. They played three seasons (1915, 1916 and 1917) in the competition.
Verein remained a member of the Austrian Ice Hockey Federation until they resigned from the association in October 1928.
Category:Ice hockey teams in Austria
Versowood Areena

Versowood Areena is an indoor arena in Heinola, Finland. The arena was built in 1984 and has a capacity of 2975 where 1500 can be seated and 1475 can stand. It is the home arena for Peliitat Heinola of the Mestis hockey league the second top league in Finland behind Liiga and all other ice hockey teams in the city. It is also the home arena for Tinatuopit of 2. Divisioona. 
==History==
Construction of the arena lasted from 1983 to 1984. The first match played was a test match friendly between the international squads Sweden and Finland which drew in a full crowd. The ceiling also holds the jerseys of Heinola greats Marko Nyman and Vesa Welling whose numbers 16 and 19 were retired by the team.
==References==
Category:Arenas in Finland
Vesa Helsinki

Vesa Helsinki (also known as Töölön Vesa) is a sports club in Helsinki, Finland. It was founded in 1906.
Vesa formerly had an ice hockey section which played in the top-tier SM-sarja during the 1950s and 1960s. They were not particularly successful in their six seasons spent in the top-level league, never finishing with a winning record or in the higher portion of the standings.
By the late 1960s, the hockey club had fallen into debt and faced the prospect of being disbanded. In 1967 it was sold to Aimo Mäkinen, who assumed half of the club's outstanding debt, along with all its players and its position in the second-level Suomi-sarja. Mäkinen also re-named the club Jokerit Helsinki, which officially came into being on October 27, 1967.
==Season-by-season records==
===SM-sarja (1955-1964)===
Season 	Games	Won	Tied	Lost	Points	Goalsfor	Goalsagainst	Standing 	Playoffs 	
1955-56	8 	1 	0 	7 	2 	15 	32 	4th Group B	Did not qualify	
1956-57	8 	3 	0 	5 	6 	29 	61 	4th Group A	Did not qualify	
1957-58	8 	1 	0 	7 	2 	26 	61 	5th Group A	Relegated 	
1960-61	18 	2 	0 	16 	4 	55 	102 	10th 	Relegated 	
1962-63	18 	6 	1 	11 	13 	52 	96 	7th 	No playoffs 	
1963-64	18 	3 	0 	15 	6 	43 	117 	9th 	Relegated 	
Category:Ice hockey teams in Finland
VfB Königsberg

VfB Königsberg was a sports club in Königsberg, Germany (present day Kaliningrad, Russia). The club was founded in 1900.
In 1927, the ice hockey section of VfB Königsberg qualified for the German Championship, but did not participate in it. The following year, the East Prussian Championship final against VdS Tilsit was not decided due to protests, thus preventing Koingsberg from participating in the national championship. 
They did participate in the German Championship in 1930 and 1931, finishing third in Group A in 1930 and losing to Berliner Schlittschuhclub in the final to claim second place the following year.
==Images==
VfB Konigsberg.png|The club's logo.
VfB 1931.png|VfB in 1931. L-R: Obmann Kluge, G. Tellitzki, H. Tellitzki, A. Steinorth, Wisnewski, Rohde, Sziburies, G. Steinorth, Hasford.
VfB35.png|The club in 1935.
Category:Ice hockey teams in Germany