2012 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game

2012 KHL All-Star Game
Date	21 January 2012
Arena	Arena Riga
City	Riga, Latvia
Attendance	10,950
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Last updated October 12, 2019

The 2012 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game was the All-Star game for the 2011-12 season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). It took place on 20 (Legends Game) and 21 (All-Star Game) January 2012 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia.^[1]

The Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game is an exhibition ice hockey game that marks the midway point of the Kontinental Hockey League's regular season, with many of the league's star players playing against each other. The starting lineup for the two teams, including the starting goaltender, is voted on by fans, while the secondary lines and goaltenders are voted upon by the media. At 2019 it was the first time that Wisehockey realtime tracking system was used in KHL All-Star Game.

Riga is the capital of Latvia and is home to 632,614 inhabitants (2019), which is a third of Latvia's population. Being significantly larger than other cities of Latvia, Riga is the country's primate city. It is also the largest city in the three Baltic states and is home to one tenth of the three Baltic states' combined population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers 307.17 km² (118.60 sq mi) and lies 1–10 m above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain.

Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Since its independence, Latvia has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia has 1,957,200 inhabitants and a territory of 64,589 km² (24,938 sq mi). The country has a temperate seasonal climate.

Skills Competition Winners

The Fastest Skater - Miķelis Rēdlihs
Shootout Skill - Vladimir Tarasenko
Goaltender Competition - Chris Holt
Longest Shot - Dmitri Kalinin
Puck Control Team Relay - Team Ozoliņš
Shooting Accuracy - Sergei Mozyakin
Hardest Shot - Alexander Riazantsev (183.67 km/h, which is considered as a new world record^[2])
Captains Duel - Sergei Fedorov
Fastest Skater Team Relay - Team Fedorov

Rosters

	Team Fedorov (East)	Team Ozoliņš (West)
Coach:	Valery Belousov (Traktor Chelyabinsk)	Miloš Říha (SKA Saint Petersburg)
Assistant Coaches:	Hannu Jortikka (Amur Khabarovsk)	Oļegs Znaroks (Dynamo Moscow)
Starters:	– F Evgeny Kuznetsov (Traktor Chelyabinsk) – F Alexei Kalyuzhny (Avangard Omsk) – F Jakub Petružálek (Amur Khabarovsk) – D Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars Kazan) – D Mikko Mäenpää (Amur Khabarovsk) – G Mikhail Biryukov (Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk)	– F Miķelis Rēdlihs (Dinamo Riga) – F Vadim Schipachev (Severstal Cherepovets) – F Zbyněk Irgl (Dinamo Minsk) – D Jere Karalahti (Dinamo Minsk) – D Maxim Chudinov (Severstal Cherepovets) – G Konstantin Barulin (Atlant Moscow Oblast)
Reserves:	– F Sergei Fedorov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) (C) – F Alexander Radulov (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) – F Vladimir Tarasenko (Sibir Novosibirsk) – F Roman Červenka (Avangard Omsk) – F Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) – F Brandon Bochenski (Barys Astana) – F Alexander Frolov (Avangard Omsk) – D Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana) – D Alexander Riazantsev (Traktor Chelyabinsk) – D Vitali Proshkin (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) – D Yevgeny Medvedev (Ak Bars Kazan) – G Michael Garnett (Traktor Chelyabinsk)	– F Sergei Shirokov (CSKA Moscow) – F Tony Mårtensson (SKA Saint Petersburg) – F Mikhail Anisin (Vityaz Chekhov) – F Nikolay Zherdev (Atlant Moscow Oblast) – F Mārtiņš Karsums (Dinamo Riga) – F Vyacheslav Kozlov (Dynamo Moscow) – D Sandis Ozoliņš (Dinamo Riga) (C) – D Dmitri Kalinin (SKA Saint Petersburg) – D Janne Niskala (Atlant Moscow Oblast) – D Kirill Koltsov (SKA Saint Petersburg) – D Karel Pilař (Lev Poprad) – G Chris Holt (Dinamo Riga)

Notes

^W1 Geoff Platt was named to the Team Ozoliņš, but did not to play. Zbyněk Irgl was named as his replacement.
^W2 Vitali Koval was named to the Team Ozoliņš, but did not play. Chris Holt was named as his replacement.

Geoff Platt is a Canadian-Belarusian ice hockey player, currently playing for Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Zbyněk Irgl is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently with HC Olomouc of the Czech Extraliga.

Vitali Nikolayevich Koval is a Belarusian professional ice hockey goaltender. He currently plays for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League. He has previously played for Molot-Prikamye Perm, Dinamo Minsk, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and Atlant Moscow Oblast with whom reached Gagarin Cup Final in 2011.

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References

↑ "All Star Game 2012". khlallstar.com. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
↑ "Record-breaking All-Stars". khl.ru. 2012-01-21.

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[info-1] "All Star Game 2012". khlallstar.com. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2013.

[2] "Record-breaking All-Stars". khl.ru. 2012-01-21.