played in Dinamo Minsk home arena Dinamo was founded in 2003, taking the name of the Minsk club
Dinamo, and won the
Belarusian Extraleague championship title once and the
Belarus Cup twice. On 26 March 2008, the
KHL confirmed the Belarusian club's inclusion in the Bobrov Division. Dinamo Minsk started to play on the ice of Minsk
Palace of Sports and was relocated to the newly built
Minsk-Arena in December 2009. The first head coach of the club was
Paul Gardner, however he was dismissed prior to the beginning of the season. The next head coach became Jim Hughes, a protégé of previous
Belarus national team head coach
Curt Fraser. But after the first twelve games, the team was ranked next to the last place and Jim Hughes was dismissed. The new vacancy was taken by Russian specialist
Vasili Spiridonov whose efforts were not enough to raise Dinamo Minsk from the bottom of the tournament table. The club ended the season ranked 22nd out of 24 teams. The next season team began under command of
Glen Hanlon, who brought the
Belarus national team to the sixth place at
WC2006 in
Riga. The team roster was filled with world-famous players
Ville Peltonen and
Ossi Väänänen, and also one of the best Belarusian
goaltenders
Andrei Mezin. The 2009–10 season was similar to the previous one. The team did not show good result and
Glen Hanlon was substituted by the head coach of
HK Homiel. Dinamo Minsk finished at the 17th spot in the
KHL while missing the playoffs, but still managed to win
Spengler Cup under the guidance of
Alexander Andrievsky. The 2010–11 season was Dinamo Minsk's best season in the KHL.
Marek Sýkora, who is widely thought of as one of the best coaches in the
KHL, was appointed head coach. He brought
Metallurg Magnitogorsk to the final games in 2005 and a rookie of the KHL
Avtomobilist to the KHL playoffs in 2010. Dinamo Minsk under his command managed not only to get into the playoffs but was one step removed from the Western Conference semi-finals when
Lokomotiv prevailed in the decisive game seven of the series. The 2011–12 season of Dinamo Minsk was to have begun on 8 September 2011, versus
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. However, on 7 September 2011, the plane carrying the Lokomotiv team to the game in Minsk had
crashed during takeoff, killing all
but one of Lokomotiv's roster. Four days later, a memorial ceremony took place at the
Minsk-Arena, with Minsk players paying tribute to the victims. In the
2016–17 season, the assistant coach of the
Belarus national team Craig Woodcroft, became the head coach of Dinamo Minsk. From the very beginning to the end of the regular season, the "Bisons" were in the playoff zone and breaking a number of club records. They first collected 105 points in a regular season and took eighth place in the general standings of the KHL. But in the playoffs, Dinamo did not succeed. Again, as six years ago,
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl became the rival at the first stage. The series ended in five games, 4–1. Also during the season, in December 2016, Dinamo for the second time took part in the
Spengler Cup. Woodcroft had a three-year contract, but elected to leave the team in spring to head the Swiss club
Genève-Servette HC.
Gordie Dwyer was appointed head coach for the
2017–18 season. The roster had to be formed taking into account the financial difficulties that arose at the end of the previous season, so the team was weakened. Leaders like
Ben Scrivens,
Kevin Lalande,
Raman Hrabarenka,
Matt Ellison,
Rob Klinkhammer,
Sergei Kostitsyn,
Andrei Stas and
Nikita Komarov left. Instead of these players came mainly young Belarusians and four hockey players who had not previously played in the KHL -
Jhonas Enroth,
Quinton Howden,
Justin Fontaine and
Jack Skille. Some of them showed great performance: Enroth joined the
Sweden national team to participate in the
Olympics in
Pyeongchang and became the best player of the season in the opinion of the fans, and Howden took the second place in the list of the team's top scorers. But in general, the season for Dinamo was unsuccessful: the team finished in the 10th place in the conference and did not qualify for the playoffs. ==Arenas==