Sochi Hockey Open is a pre-season hockey tournament, which has been held in Sochi since 2016, on the ice of the Bolshoi Sports Palace, built specially for the 2014 Winter Olympic games.

The competition is attended by clubs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), as well as national teams.

In 2018 Bolshoi ice arena hosted SKA, The Olympic team of Russia, Ak Bars from Kazan, Locomotive from Yaroslavl and Kunlun Red Star from China. The upcoming Sochi Hockey Open tournament will be no less interesting: Leopards host the regular guests of the tournament which are SKA and the Russian Olympic team, and with them Locomotive, Dynamo from Riga and Avangard which is the finalist of Gagarin Cup 2019.

In 2019, the tournament will be held from 3 to 8 of August and it will be attended by four KHL clubs and the Russian team.

The Schedule of the Matches:

August 3, Saturday

13:00 Lokomotiv - Avangard

17:30 Sochi - Dinamo Riga

August 4, Sunday

13:00 Avangard - Russian Olympic team

17:30 Sochi - SKA

August 5, Monday

15:00 Lokomotiv - Russian Olympic team

19:30 SKA - Dinamo Riga

August 6, Tuesday

15:00 Lokomotiv - Dinamo Riga

19:30 Sochi - Russian Olympic team

August 7, Wednesday

15:00 Lokomotiv - SKA

19:30 Sochi - Avangard

August 8, Thursday

15:00 Russian Olympic team - Dinamo Riga

19:30 SKA - Avangard