Kaunas Hockey

Hockey Kaunas was founded in 2017, with the purpose of helping to improve the standard of Lithuanian hockey with the ultimate goal of seeing the Lithuanian national team compete in the Winter Olympics.^[2][3] One of the team's initial investors was TeleSoftas, a Kaunas-based software company.^[2][3] Following their formation, Hockey Kaunas immediately began play in the Lithuania Hockey League. Their first season was a productive one, making it to the playoff finals, before ultimately losing to SC Energija.^[4]

In 2020 Kaunas Hockey took part in the inaugural Baltic Hockey League, a competition made up of two teams from each of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.^[5] The team finished last in their group after suffering heavy losses against both Tartu Välk 949 of Estonia, and Latvian side HK Mogo. As a result, they did not progress to the final round.^[6] In addition, as a result of being in first place of the NLRL when the remainder of games were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaunas Hockey also qualified for the 2020–21 IIHF Continental Cup where they were scheduled to face-off against Skautafelag Akureyrar of Iceland, Israeli team HC Bat Yam and Spanish outfit FC Barcelona.^[7] However, two months later, the IIHF cancelled the Continental Cup due to the Pandemic.^[8]

Updated January 24, 2021.^[9]

Goaltenders
Number		Player	Catches	Acquired	Place of Birth
95		Pavel Davydyuk	L	2020	Saint Petersburg, Russia
1		Daniel Jankovskij	R	2019	-
30		Artur Pavliukov	L	2018	Klaipėda, Lithuania

Defencemen
Number		Player	Shoots	Acquired	Place of Birth
88		Vasilijus Fedotovas	L	2019	Rokiškis, Lithuania
19		Žygimantas Girdžius	L	2017	Kaunas, Lithuania
22		Povilas Jagelavicius	L	2017	Kaunas, Lithuania
76		Vėjas Jokubynas	R	2020	Vilnius, Lithuania
55		Ilya Malashkevich	L	2020	Moscow, Russia
97		Yegor Rublyov	R	2020	Gomel, Belarus
47		Artiom Starovoitov	L	2020	-
71		Alexander Strokin	L	2020	-

Forwards
Number		Player	Shoots	Position	Acquired	Place of Birth
33		Rojus Adamonis	L	F	2020	Kaunas, Lithuania
69		Nojus Asmonas	L	F	2020	-
14		Egidijus Binkulis	L	C	2020	Elektrėnai, Lithuania
46		Eduard Chekmaryov	R	F	2019	Yekaterinburg, Russia
17		Kirill Danilenko	L	F	2019	Gomel, Belarus
16		Remigijus Guoga	L	F	2017	Kaunas, Lithuania
27		Vytautas Jagelavičius	L	LW/RW	2017	Elektrėnai, Lithuania
89		Dovydas Laimutis	L	R	2020	-
29		Pavel Pravilo	L	F	2020	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
18		Roman Reshetnikov	-	F	2020	-
15		Anton Sharpanskikh	L	C	2020	Nizhny Tagil, Russia
91		Grigori Vorobyov	L	LW	2019	Tyumen, Russia
13		Lukas Zukauskas	L	F	2018	Jonava, Lithuania

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes