HC Vityaz

Chekhov's debuts in the KHL were pretty bad. Vityaz registered a mere 6 wins in regulation, plus 5 in overtime; in counterpart for those 11 wins, the team lost 45 times (of which, 12 games were in overtime). The meager 40 points collected meant that the team finished at a dismal 23rd place out of 24, a single point ahead of the equally bad Khimik Voskresensk. Head coach Sergei Gomolyako made the mistake in October to dress one more foreign player than allowed by the rules, resulting in a match lost by forfeit. Gomolyako claimed he ignored there was such a rule, and the following week, he was fired, to be replaced by former NHL player and Vityaz head coach Mike Krushelnyski. Vityaz' fans enjoyed the return of Krushelnyski, who was had brought the team to the playoffs in 2006–07. But Chekhov's goon-full roster, which general manager Alexei Zhamnov wishes to shape after the 1990s Chicago Blackhawks for whom he played, just couldn't bring good enough performances to repeat the feat. They however led the league in penalty minutes, some 500 minutes ahead of the second most penalized club, with players such as Nathan Perrott (137 minutes in 9 matches and not a single point), Darcy Verot (more disciplined and productive than in his first season with Vityaz, even though it still only meant 5 points and 168 minutes) and Chris Simon (league leader at 263 minutes, and club's second best scorer behind Gleb Klimenko at 27 points).

Chekhov's season was darkened by the death of Alexei Cherepanov in October 2008, a death occurred on its home ice and that might have been avoided had Chekhov's arena been equipped with a working defibrillator and the ambulance that is required to remain available until the end of the match not departed well before the end, resulting in much longer delays between the accident and the moment where Cherepanov arrived at the nearest hospital.[4] [5]

2009–10 felt like déja-vu for Chekhov. After almost being thrown out of the league due to its finances in August (it needed to find 300 million rubles, which it did), the Knights started the season with two wins and temporarily led the league. Things didn't last however as the team finished 23rd out of 24 teams with only 13 regular-season wins (plus 3 in overtime and 2 in the shootouts—an improvement from the previous year), 54 points and, once again, a colossal amount of penalty minutes: 1522, ahead and by far every other team in the league. Vadim Berdnikov, Gleb Klimenko (who came back from Kazan) and Chris Simon led the offence with respectively 33, 27 and 25 points.

Once again, an incident between Vityaz and Avangard marked the season. On January 9, 2010, the game between Vityaz and Avangard was stopped after 3 minutes and 39 seconds when a bench-clearing and penalty-box-clearing brawl broke out. Darcy Verot had instigated the brawl after three minutes of play when he shot the puck at an Avangard player. A mass brawl quickly followed, which the referees could deal with. However, as soon as the game was resumed, fighting resumed as well and both benches cleared to join the fight.[6] The game was quickly getting out of hand and the officials decided it was better to cancel the whole game. Little else could be done, as a whopping total of 707 penalty minutes had been incurred – a new world record – and a total of 33 players on both teams have been ejected from the game, as well as both head coaches. Only four players avoided being ejected. The KHL imposed a total of 5.7 million rubles (about US $191,000) fines, including 150,000 rubles fines to Vityaz's Darcy Verot and Brandon Sugden and Avangard's Alexander Svitov and Dmitry Vlasenkov.[7] Additionally, Verot, Sugden, Vlasenkov and four other Vityaz players received one-game suspensions.

Updated 2 September 2023.[8][9]

No.	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
93		Ilya Arkalov	LW	L	29	2021	Moscow, Russia
26		Derek Barach	C	R	28	2023	Glenmont, New York, United States
7		Yaroslav Busygin	D	L	20	2021	Korkino, Russia
83		Maxim Dorozhko	G	L	25	2022	Podolsk, Russia
10		Vladimir Galuzin (C)	C	L	35	2022	Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR
75		Nikita Goncharov	F	R	24	2018	Orel, Russia
2		Igor Golovkov (A)	D	L	33	2011	Moscow, Russian SFSR
88		Vladislav Kara	RW	L	25	2022	Salekhard, Russia
78		Kirill Kirsanov	D	L	21	2023	Tver, Russia
91		Ivan Kozlov	C	L	24	2023	Yaroslavl, Russia
53		Ruslan Pedan	D	L	28	2023	Kaunas, Lithuania
25		Vitali Popov	C	L	31	2020	Yekaterinburg, Russia
79		Jeremy Roy (A)	D	R	26	2022	Richelieu, Quebec, Canada
46		Igor Rudenkov	LW	L	28	2023	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
36		Igor Rydchenko	D	L	22	2021	Samara, Russia
44		Dmitri Shikin	G	L	32	2022	Elektrostal, Russian SFSR
89		Nikolai Timashov	D	L	29	2023	Magnitogorsk, Russia
33		Nikita Tochitsky	C	L	32	2023	St. Petersburg, Russian SFSR
87		Vladislav Tsitsyura	F	L	24	2023	Rybinsk, Russia
34		Igor Ugolnikov	LW	R	26	2023	Nizhnekamsk, Russia
72		Kirill Ustimenko	G	L	24	2023	Gomel, Belarus
9		Vladislav Valentsov	D	L	27	2022	Tyumen, Russia
59		Yegor Voronkov	D	R	26	2015	Podolsk, Russia
20		Scott Wilson	C	L	31	2022	Oakville, Ontario, Canada
85		Alexander Yaremchuk	F	L	24	2021	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
13		Stanislav Yarovoy	F	R	20	2022	Tuymazy, Russia
27		Ivan Yezhov	F	L	23	2022	Nizhnevartovsk, Russia
65		Filat Zotov	D	L	21	2021	Samara, Russia
14		Yegor Zubov	F	L	22	2021	Chelyabinsk, Russia

Players

• Mikhail Anisin, RW, 2011–12, 2012
• Alexander Korolyuk, RW, 2004–05, 2005–08, 2012–2014, 2013
• Chris Simon, LW, 2008–11, 2010, 2011
• Ivan Lisutin, G, 2012–15, 2014
• Maxim Afinogenov, RW, 2013–18, 2014

These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history in the KHL. Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; bold = current Vityaz player [10]

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
Alexei Makeyev	381	86	101	187	134	−4	17	5	16
Maxim Afinogenov	268	80	84	164	325	−24	19	3	9
Miro Aaltonen	198	57	95	152	76	4	22	2	11
Roman Horak	224	59	56	115	106	−22	21	5	4
Alexander Semin	144	45	53	98	150	−12	17	0	11
Vadim Berdnikov	163	31	61	92	177	−22	7	3	3
Mario Kempe	166	39	44	83	144	−28	13	2	7
Chris Simon	113	37	43	80	503	−17	19	0	9
Jakub Jeřábek	158	21	57	78	118	5	10	0	2
Artemi Panarin	143	29	46	75	97	−15	10	0	2

Vysshaya Liga (1): 2005

Wingas Cup (1): 2017

Lehner Cup (1): 2018