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Ice Hockey team
AKM-Junior
Club · Russia · MHL
«AKM-Junior»
249
Matches
82
wins
167
losses
624–908
Goals
−284
Difference
2.5
Scored per game
Form
L
18 Sep · Home Mamonty Yugry · 2:5
L
21 Sep · Home Loko-76 · 0:2
L
26 Sep · Home Krasnoyarskie Rysi · 2:3
W
27 Sep · Home Krasnoyarskie Rysi · 7:3
W
2 Oct · Away Red Mashine Atlant · 2:1
W
12 Oct · Home Tolpar · 10:2
AKM-Junior has never gone further than eighth twice, then sixth, then fifth in the Silver Division of the Major Junior Hockey League (MHL).
The coaching bench has not sat still. Alexey Khramtsov, Dmitry Evstigneev and Sergei Morgunov have all had the job since the club started, and Alexander Trofimov took over in late 2025.
One fixture stands apart from the rest of the calendar: the Governor's Cup of the Tula Region, where AKM-Junior regularly meets its sister club, Akademija Mihajlova, in what is known locally as the Club Derby.
The academy's most useful export so far is Ivan Alekseev, top scorer in the 2022/23 season, who moved up to the senior AKM roster before continuing his career at Gomel in Belarus.
The team was set up in July 2021 by the B.P. Mikhailov Tula Hockey Academy as a feeder side for AKM, and it took its first steps far from home: registered that season in the National Junior Hockey League, it played out of Novomoskovsk's Ice Palace Yubileyny before the move to Tula and promotion to the MHL followed a year later.
Latest results
Fixtures and results| 12 Oct | MHL |
Tolpar
H
|
10:2 | W |
| 2 Oct | MHL |
Red Mashine Atlant
A
|
2:1 | W |
| 27 Sep | MHL |
Krasnoyarskie Rysi
H
|
7:3 | W |
| 26 Sep | MHL |
Krasnoyarskie Rysi
H
|
2:3 | L |
| 21 Sep | MHL |
Loko-76
H
|
0:2 | L |
| 18 Sep | MHL |
Mamonty Yugry
H
|
2:5 | L |
Standing
MHLGroup stage · Eastern Conference - Silver Division
| # | Team | M | W | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
AKM-Junior
|
9 | 6 | 3 | 33:19 | 0 |
| 2 |
Mamonty Yugry
|
13 | 8 | 5 | 35:28 | 0 |
| 3 |
 Sputnik Almetievsk
|
11 | 6 | 5 | 26:36 | 0 |
| 4 |
 Kuznetskie Medvedi
|
9 | 5 | 4 | 21:23 | 0 |
| 5 |
 Reaktor
|
11 | 5 | 6 | 25:31 | 0 |
| 6 |
 Molot Perm
|
10 | 3 | 7 | 34:42 | 0 |
| 7 |
Krasnoyarskie Rysi
|
11 | 3 | 8 | 26:43 | 0 |
| 8 |
 Snezhnye Barsy Astana
|
16 | 4 | 12 | 37:56 | 0 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 249
249
Matches
82
wins
167
losses
624–908
Goals
−284
Difference
2.5
Scored per game
wins
losses
scored — above the line
conceded — below the line
| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 249 | 129 | 120 |
| Scored | 624 | 348 | 276 |
| Conceded | 908 | 468 | 440 |
| Scored per game | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.3 |
| Conceded per game | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
| Difference | −284 | −120 | −164 |
Fixtures of AKM-Junior
-
15 Oct · 13:30
Omskie Yastreby
A
MHL
-
21 Oct · 15:00
Molot Perm
A
MHL
-
22 Oct · 15:00
Molot Perm
A
MHL
-
26 Oct · 16:00
Snezhnye Barsy Astana
H
MHL
-
27 Oct · 16:00
Snezhnye Barsy Astana
H
MHL
-
12 Oct
Tolpar
H
10:2
W
-
2 Oct
Red Mashine Atlant
A
2:1
W
-
27 Sep
Krasnoyarskie Rysi
H
7:3
W
-
26 Sep
Krasnoyarskie Rysi
H
2:3
L
-
21 Sep
Loko-76
H
0:2
L
-
18 Sep
Mamonty Yugry
H
2:5
L
-
17 Sep
Mamonty Yugry
H
3:0
W
-
10 Sep
Snezhnye Barsy Astana
A
3:2
W
Honours of AKM-Junior
- Tournament for the Head of Karelia 2022 1
Team news
AKM may not finish VHL season over financial problems
Sport-Express journalist Alexey Shevchenko says AKM could drop out of the Olimpbet VHL, with the funding gap threatening all Tula clubs in the system.