HK Pantera Minsk was a women's ice hockey club from Belarus. Founded in 2010, it was the first professional women's ice hockey team in the country.[1]
| HK Pantera Minsk | |
|---|---|
 | |
| City | Minsk, Belarus |
| League | Elite Women's Hockey League Latvia Open Championship |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Folded | 2013 |
| Colours | Red, White |
| Website | hcpantera.by (archived) |
HK Pantera Minsk played in the international Elite Women's Hockey League, which it won in the 2012–13 season with Jess Jones as team captain.[2][3] The team also competed in the IIHF European Women's Champions Cup, and won the Latvia Open Championship twice.[4][5]
The club was meant to form the basis for a Belarus national team,[6] but it folded in 2013 due to a lack of funding.[1][4]
References
edit- ^ a b Potts, Andy (2019-10-07). "Belarus primed for growth". IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
- ^ "Minsk erstmals EWHL-Champion" [Minsk EWHL champions for the first time]. Eishockey.org. 2013-03-05. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
- ^ Schultz, Randy (2017-09-01). "Scoring Machine Jess Jones Is A Buffalo Beaut". NY Hockey Online. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ^ a b Goroshko, Irina (2013-09-11). "Women's hockey in Belarus on the verge of collapse". Eurohockey.com. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
- ^ Shchyry, Taras (2016-10-10). "От Турции до сборной России. Куда подались хоккеистки минской «Пантеры» после того, как клуб развалился" [From Turkey to the Russian national team. Where did the Minsk Panther hockey players go after the club collapsed?]. by.tribuna.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ^ Bakerenko, Yuri (2015-06-04). "Почему в Беларуси заглохло развитие женского хоккея?" [Why has the development of women's hockey stalled in Belarus?]. СБ-Беларусь сегодня (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-03-16.