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
CityMinsk, Belarus
LeagueElite Women's Hockey League
Latvia Open Championship
Founded2010
Folded2013
ColoursRed, White
   
Websitehcpantera.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

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  1. ^ a b Potts, Andy (2019-10-07). "Belarus primed for growth". IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Schultz, Randy (2017-09-01). "Scoring Machine Jess Jones Is A Buffalo Beaut". NY Hockey Online. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  4. ^ a b Goroshko, Irina (2013-09-11). "Women's hockey in Belarus on the verge of collapse". Eurohockey.com. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.