Viipurin Reipas was an ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team from Vyborg

Vyborg

Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, to the northwest of St. Petersburg and south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland...

. Reipas played in the SM-sarja

SM-sarja

SM-Sarja was the top level of ice hockey in Finland from 1928 to 1975. SM-sarja is a common abbreviation for Suomen mestaruussarja, "Finnish Championship Series"....

 on two seasons, (1928

1927-28 SM-sarja season

The 1927–28 SM-sarja season was actually an Ice hockey tournament set up by the Finnish Ball Association. The first ever Finnish ice hockey championships featured 6 teams from 3 cities.-First round:-Second round:...

 and 1932

1931-32 SM-sarja season

-First round:TaPa and HPS through to Semifinals-Semifinals:HPS and HJK through to Final-Final:Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi wins the 1931-1932 Finnish ice hockey championship.-References:*...

).

Reipas in SM-Sarja

Reipas won the first SM-sarja season back in 1928. Reipas returned to SM-sarja in 1932 but forfeited its only game against HJK

Relocation

After The Winter War

Winter War

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...

 and The Continuation War

Continuation War

The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...

, the city of Vyborg was ceded to Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 and Reipas was forced to move within Finnish borders. Reipas relocated to Lahti

Lahti

Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

 and was renamed Lahden Reipas