HK Pantera Minsk explained

Team:	HK Pantera Minsk
Colour Text:	000000
Logosize:	170px
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 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 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]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Belarus primed for growth . 2019-10-07 . Andy . Potts . IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation . 2024-03-13.
2. Web site: Minsk erstmals EWHL-Champion . Minsk EWHL champions for the first time . Eishockey.org . 2013-03-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170913183237/http://old.eishockey.org/default.aspx?SIId=266&ARId=17224 . 2017-09-13 . dead . 2024-03-13.
3. Web site: Schultz . Randy . Scoring Machine Jess Jones Is A Buffalo Beaut . NY Hockey Online . 2017-09-01 . 2024-04-02.
4. Web site: Women’s hockey in Belarus on the verge of collapse . Irina . Goroshko . Eurohockey.com . 2013-09-11 . 2024-03-13.
5. Web site: Shchyry . Taras . 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 . 2016-10-10 . ru . 2024-04-02.
6. Web site: Yuri . Bakerenko . Почему в Беларуси заглохло развитие женского хоккея? . Why has the development of women's hockey stalled in Belarus? . СБ-Беларусь сегодня . 2015-06-04 . ru . 2024-03-16.