Spartak extend defenceman Nikolai Dronov's contract through 2030
The 18-year-old defenceman has played four KHL games this season, averaging 5:45 on ice, and signed a deal that runs to the end of the 2029/30 season.
Ice Hockey team
MHC Spartak
Club · Russia · MHL
«Red-and-Whites»
473
Matches
307
wins
166
losses
1588–1156
Goals
+432
Difference
3.4
Scored per game
Form
L
27 Sep · Home Dinamo-Shinnik · 0:2
L
2 Oct · Away Amurskie Tigry · 3:4
L
4 Oct · Away Sakhalinskie Akuly · 0:1
W
6 Oct · Away Tayfun · 3:0
W
7 Oct · Away Tayfun · 2:1
W
14 Oct · Home Red Mashine Atlant · 4:2
In the 2013/14 final of the Kharlamov Cup, MHC Spartak beat Krasnaya Armiya 4-3, and a few months later, in Ufa, its graduates went further still, edging HC Tolpar 2-1 in a shootout to take the IIHF World U20 Club Challenge. Arseny Khatsey, named the most valuable player of that playoff run, became the clearest face of a group that had been assembled only five years earlier, when the Junior Hockey League itself came into being in 2009 and Spartak was built to compete in it from the first season.
The club trained and played for years at the Small Arena of the Luzhniki complex before moving to its own rink, the Ice Palace 'Legends of Hockey — Sokolniki', which holds around 1,500 people. It is a small ground for a club whose graduates have gone on to the NHL, among them goaltender Igor Shesterkin, now with the New York Rangers, and defenceman Vladislav Provolnev, who has played for Tampa Bay Lightning, New Jersey Devils and, back in Russia, Metallurg Magnitogorsk.
A second Kharlamov Cup arrived in 2024/25, when Spartak defeated SKA-1946 4-3 in the final and also won the Golden Division of the Western Conference that season, more than a decade after the first. In between, the club had come close once more, losing the 2012/13 final to Omskie Yastreby.
None of it carries the weight of the fixture with Krasnaya Armiya, the junior side of CSKA Moscow. The two have met more than 95 times, a rivalry sharpened by that 2014 final and kept alive as a derby every season since, with the history between Moscow's two clubs settled again each time the sides line up.
Latest results
Fixtures and results| 14 Oct | MHL |
Red Mashine Atlant
H
|
4:2 | W |
| 7 Oct | MHL |
Tayfun
A
|
2:1 | W |
| 6 Oct | MHL |
Tayfun
A
|
3:0 | W |
| 4 Oct | MHL |
Sakhalinskie Akuly
A
|
0:1 | L |
| 2 Oct | MHL |
Amurskie Tigry
A
|
3:4 | L |
| 27 Sep | MHL |
Dinamo-Shinnik
H
|
0:2 | L |
Standing
MHLGroup stage · Western Conference - Gold Division
| # | Team | M | W | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Loko
|
10 | 8 | 2 | 33:15 | 0 |
| 2 |
 Krasnaya Armiya
|
11 | 7 | 4 | 33:27 | 0 |
| 3 |
 MHC Spartak
|
12 | 8 | 4 | 31:21 | 0 |
| 4 |
Dinamo-Shinnik
|
12 | 8 | 4 | 35:26 | 0 |
| 5 |
 Din. St. Petersburg
|
10 | 6 | 4 | 26:21 | 0 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 473
473
Matches
307
wins
166
losses
1588–1156
Goals
+432
Difference
3.4
Scored per game
wins
losses
scored — above the line
conceded — below the line
| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 473 | 245 | 228 |
| Scored | 1588 | 827 | 761 |
| Conceded | 1156 | 593 | 563 |
| Scored per game | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.3 |
| Conceded per game | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
| Difference | +432 | +234 | +198 |
Fixtures of MHC Spartak
-
18 Oct · 12:00
Red Mashine
H
MHL
-
22 Oct · 16:30
Mikhaylov Academy U20
H
MHL
-
27 Oct · 15:30
Krasnaya Armiya
H
MHL
-
14 Oct
Red Mashine Atlant
H
4:2
W
-
7 Oct
Tayfun
A
2:1
W
-
6 Oct
Tayfun
A
3:0
W
-
4 Oct
Sakhalinskie Akuly
A
0:1
L
-
2 Oct
Amurskie Tigry
A
3:4
L
-
27 Sep
Dinamo-Shinnik
H
0:2
L
-
25 Sep
Dinamo-Shinnik
H
6:2
W
-
21 Sep
Avto
H
3:2
W
Honours of MHC Spartak
- Kharlamov Cup (MHL Championship) 2014, 2025 2
- IIHF World U20 Club Challenge 2014 1
- Kharlamov Cup (MHL Championship) Runner-up 2013 1
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