List of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League
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For the 2014–15 season, Ukrainians constituted the 14th most numerous nationality within the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). During the 2009–10 KHL season, 26[a] Ukrainian players participated in the competition, the most to date, out of the 41 total to have played. Alexei Zhitnik, along with Anton Babchuk and Nikolay Zherdev are of a select few to have been named to the annual All Star Game.
Oleg Tverdovsky became the first Ukrainian-born player to win the Gagarin Cup, doing so with HC Salavat Yulaev in 2010. In 2013, Kostiantyn Kasianchuk became the first Ukrainian national team player to do the same; after which the Cup was brought to Kyiv in celebration.[1] According to Sokil Kyiv general manager Vyacheslav Zavalnyuk, 13.5% of all players in the KHL have Ukrainian roots.[2]
Players
edit= Active in 2012-13 season | = Signed for 2013-14 season | = Active in 2013-14 season | = Retired |
Note: A (★) denotes a player who has participated in an All Star Game
All statistics accurate to the end of the 2012–13 KHL season
Breakdown of players by nationality
edit- Ukraine
- Nationalized to Ukraine
- Russia
- Kazakhstan
- Belarus
- Neutral
Captains
editSeveral players have acted as captains of their respective KHL clubs, including: Alexei Zhitnik (Dynamo Moscow); Vitaly Vishnevsky (SKA); Serhiy Varlamov, Ruslan Fedotenko,[54] (HC Donbass); and Nikolay Zherdev (Atlant)
Players of Ukrainian descent
editThe following is a list of KHL players who while not born in Ukraine, are of documented Ukrainian descent.
Notes
edit- a Figure includes both Ukrainian-born and Ukrainian national players.
- b Denis Denisov was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR to a military family who relocated to Tver prior to Ukraine's independence. As a result, he never was a Ukrainian citizen.[59]
- c Yuri Silnitsky and Vladislav Shalimov played in the 2012–13 season, but did not gain Ukrainian citizenship until the following year.[60]
- Indicates a player who was born in Russia and became a naturalized Ukrainian citizen
- ☦ Vitaly Anikeyenko, Daniil Sobchenko, and Alexander Vyukhin were killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash prior to the opening game of the 2011–12 KHL season.
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