Minsk

Farm Club: Vitebsk Bears (Belarus)

GM: Igor Kirunov (Only GM in team’s history)

Coach: Dave Tippett (replaced Guy Boucher, who replaced Lindy Ruff, who replaced Claude Julien)

History

Season	Place	Points
1	24	54
2	19	74
3	18	77
4	7	106
5	3	117
6	1 (Cup)	144
7	1	120
8	1 (Cup)	119
9	14	89
10	10	92
11	9	93
12	7	102
13	3	113
14	7	101
15	5	112
16	3	121
17	2	120
18	4	124

Top Scorers (forward, defenseman, goalie)

Season 1: Sergei Kostitsyn (45); Ryan McDonagh (26); Carey Price (20 wins)
Season 2: Patric Hornquist (61); Nick Leddy (37); Carey Price (26 wins)
Season 3: Nicklas Backstrom (79); Nick Leddy (42); Carey Price (32 wins)
Season 4: Nicklas Backstrom (101); Ryan McDonagh (33); Carey Price (45 wins)
Season 5: Nicklas Backstrom (84); Michael Del Zotto (48); Carey Price (47 wins)
Season 6: Nicklas Backstrom (128); Michael Del Zotto (69); Carey Price (61 wins)
Season 7: Milan Lucic (106); Maxim Chudinov (55); Carey Price (50 wins)
Season 8: Jordan Staal (108); Ryan McDonagh (57); Carey Price (49 wins)
Season 9: Jordan Staal (95); Michael Del Zotto (44); Henrik Lundquist (32)
Season 10: Jacob Josefson (93); Maxim Chudinov (48); Simeon Varlamov (39 wins)
Season 11: Gustav Nyquist (76); Michael Del Zotto (43); Simeon Varlamov (36 wins)
Season 12: Bo Horvat (80); Maxim Chudinov (64); Carey Price (39 wins)
Season 13: Bo Horvat (85); Aaron Ekblad (65); Robin Lehner (34 wins)
Season 14: Bo Horvat (79); Aaron Ekblad (50); Attila Adorjan (29 wins)
Season 15: Bo Horvat (95); Aaron Ekblad (55); Attila Adorjan (46 wins)
Season 16: Fyodor Malykhin (102); Aaron Ekblad (68); Attila Adorjan (50 wins)
Season 17: Nick Suzuki (90); Aaron Ekblad (52); Attila Adorjan (51 wins)
Season 18: Bo Horvat (113); Brock Faber (53); Attila Adorjan (50 wins)

All Stars

Season 1: Ryan McDonagh
Season 2: Patric Hornquist
Season 3: Zach Parise
Season 4: Milan Lucic
Season 5: Michael Del Zotto, Patrick Kane
Season 6: Nicklas Backstrom, Michael Del Zotto, Patrick Kane, Milan Lucic, Carey Price
Season 7: Nicklas Backstrom, Maxim Chudinov, Michael Del Zotto, Patrick Kane, Milan Lucic, Ryan McDonagh, Carey Price
Season 8: Nicklas Backstrom, Aaron Ekblad, Patrick Kane, Milan Lucic, Ryan McDonagh, Thomas Powell, Jordan Staal
Season 9: Michael Del Zotto, Patrick Kane, Jordan Staal
Season 10: Maxim Chudinov, Jacob Josefson, Gustav Nyquist, Thomas Powell
Season 11: Michael Del Zotto
Season 12: Maxim Chudinov
Season 13: Aaron Ekblad
Season 14: Aaron Ekblad
Season 15: Aaron Ekblad, Maxim Chudinov
Season 16: Aaron Ekblad, Attila Adorjan, Bo Horvat
Season 17: Attila Adorjan, Aaron Ekblad, Bo Horvat, Anthony Beauvillier
Season 18: Attila Adorjan, Aaron Ekblad, Maxim Chudinov, Brock Faber

Top Draft picks

Season 1: Carey Price, G
Season 2: Maxim Chudinov, D
Season 3: Valeri Nichushkin, RW/LW
Season 4: Aaron Ekblad, D
Season 5: Kevin Clark, RW
Season 6: Kevin Hayes, C
Season 7: German Rubtsov, C
Season 8: Nick Suzuki, C
Season 9: Tim Bozon, LW
Season 10: Adam Boquist, D
Season 11: Vasily Podkolzin, RW
Season 12: Yaroslav Askarov, G
Season 13: Fyodor Svechkov, C
Season 14: Janis Voris, G
Season 15: Bartek Bison, LW
Season 16: Eduard Sale, RW
Season 17: Jett Luchanko, C
Season 18: William Horcoff, LW
Season 19: none

Trade History

Season 1 (picks without years listed are from initial draft)

Traded Round 4 pick (used to draft Brent Burns) to St. Petersburg for Round 6 pick (used to draft Patrik Berglund) and 2013 Round 1 pick (Thomas Powell)

Traded Round 8 pick (traded later) (Andrej Meszaros) to Oslo for Round 17 pick (Zac Rinaldo) and 2013 Round 1 (Alex Galchenyuk)

Traded Round 12 pick (Dan Winnick) to Bern for Round 14 pick (Matt Cllen), Round 25 pick (later traded) (Dan Paille) and 2013 Round 3 pick (Nathan Beaulieu)

Traded Matt Cullen to Athens for Round 15 pick (Stefan Elliott)

Traded Matt Hunwick Round 25 pick (Dan Paille) and Round 25 pick (Alexei Emelin) to Edinburgh for Nick Bjugstad

Traded Vernon Fiddler and $1 million to Geneva for Alex Chiasson

Traded Round 21 pick (Raffi Torres) to Geneva for Brian Dumoulin

Traded Round 10 pick (Mikael Granlund) to Belfast for Round 11 pick (Romas Josi) and Round 15 pick (Andrej Sekera)

Season 2

Traded Andrej Sekera to Prague for Nicklas Grossman and 2015 Round 3 pick (Jon Merrill)

Traded Brayden Schenn and Kyle Clifford to Helsinki for Alexander Burmistrov

Traded Tobias Stephan to London for 2016 Round 3 pick (later traded)

Traded 2016 Round 3 pick (from London – Erik Forssell)) to London for Tobias Stephan

Traded Jonas Holos to Frankfurt for 2014 Round 2 pick (later traded) (Viktor Fasth)

Traded Patric Hornqvist and Mathis Olimb to Berlin for 2015 Round 1 that was later traded in Aaron Ekblad deal and used to pick (Sami Vatanen).

Season 3

Traded 2014 Rd 2 pick (Hunter Shinkaruk) to Helsinki for Sven Baertschi

Traded Roman Josi and Alexander Galchenyuk to Prague for Zach Parise

Traded Andres De La Garma to Copenhagen for 2015 Round 2 pick (later traded) (Julius Honka)

Traded Zach Parise to Gothenburg for Milan Lucic, 2016 Round 1 pick (later traded to Zurich in Patrick Kane deal – Sandro Zurkirchen) and 2017 Round 1 pick (Kevin Hayes)

Traded 2015 Round 3 pick (Brandon Montour) to Helsinki for Nick Spaling

Season 4

Traded Nick Bjugstad, Magnus Paajarvi and 2015 Round 1 pick (Sami Vatanen) to Frankfurt for 2015 Round 1 pick (Aaron Ekblad)

Traded Valeri Nichushkin, Sergei Kostitsyn and Ilya Nikulin to Geneva for Michael Del Zotto

Traded 2015 Round 2 pick (Julius Honka) to Stockholm for 2017 Round 3 pick (later traded to Munich in Mark Giordano trade and used to pick Calle Jarnkrok)

Traded Jon Merrill to Bern for 2017 Round 3 pick (later traded to Munich and used to pick Travis Dermott)

Traded Jakub Voracek, Nathan Beaulieu and 2016 Round 1 pick (Sandro Zurkirchen) to Zurich for Patrick Kane

Traded Patrik Berglund and Nick Leddy to Madrid for Jordan Staal

Traded Renat Mamashev to Dublin for 2017 Round 2 pick (Pavel Zacha)

Traded two 2017 Round 3 draft picks (used to pick Calle Jarnkrok and Oliver Kylington (by Gothenburg)) to Munich for Mark Giordano

Season 5

Season 6

Traded 2017 Round 2 pick (Mathew Barzal) and 2017 Round 3 pick (Evgeny Svechnikov) to Lisbon for 2017 Round 2 pick (Colin White)

After Season 6 started:

Traded Dmitrij Jaskin to Zurich for Janne Niskala

Traded Kevin Hayes, 2018 Round 2 pick (Brandon Davidson) and 2019 Round 2 pick (Jimmy Vesey) to Edinburgh for Olivier Roland and 2018 Round 3 pick (Yegor Korshkov)

Claimed Jimmy Hayes off waivers

Lost Mark Giordano and Matt Martin off waivers

Season 7

Season 8

Traded Colin Wilson to Athens for 2019 Round 2 pick (Denis Malgin) and 2020 Round 3 pick (Erik Kallgren)

After Season 8 started:

Signed Tyler Kennedy, Sergei Kostitsyn and Colin Greening (free agents)

Claimed Michael Keranen (waivers)

Claimed Luke Adam (waivers)

Season 9

Traded 2021 Round 2 pick (Michael DiPietro) and 2023 Round 3 pick (later traded to London, Gunnarwolfe Fontain) to Copenhagen for Henrik Lundquist

Season 10

Traded Patrick Kane to St. Petersburg for 2021 Round 3 pick (Philipp Kurashev)

Traded Luke Adam to Lisbon for 2022 Round 3 pick (Helsinki’s) (Kirill Marchenko)

Traded Milan Lucic and Jordan Staal to Dublin for Jake Allen, Steve Oleksy and 2021 Round 3 pick (Lukas Dostal)

Season 11

Traded Pavel Zacha and 2024 Round 3 pick (J.J. Moser) to Geneva for Niclas Almari

Season 12–14

Season 15

Traded Denis Malgin and 2026 Round 2 pick (Rami Maatta) to Madrid for Jan Kovar

Traded Robin Lehner and J.J. Peterka to Milan for Par Arlbrandt

Traded 2026 Round 3 pick (Tristan Luneau) and 2027 Round 2 pick (Trey Augustine) to Munich for Fyodor Malykhin

Season 17