Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team

Kazakhstan

Association	Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation
GM	Vadim Gusseinov
Head coach	Andrei Shayanov
Assistants	Sergei Tambulov Nurlan Orazbayev Galym Mambetaliyev
Most games	Andrei Pchelyakov (55)
Most points	Yevgeniy Koreshkov (73)
IIHF ranking	18 (1st ASIAN Rank)
Highest IIHF ranking	11 (2006)
Lowest IIHF ranking	21 (2003)
First international
Kazakhstan 5 – 1 Ukraine (St. Petersburg, Russia; April 14, 1992)
Biggest win
Kazakhstan 52 – 1 Thailand (Changchun, China; January 29, 2007)
Biggest defeat
Slovakia 11 – 2 Kazakhstan (Litvinov, Czech Republic; April 27, 1998)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	4 (first in 1998)
Best result	12th (2005)
Olympics
Appearances	2 (first in 1998)
International record (W–L–T)
108-62-12

The Kazakhstani men's national ice hockey team is controlled by Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation. Kazakhstan is currently ranked 19th in the world. In their first Olympic Games in 1998, the Kazakhs were able to win their preliminary group, surprising many, and would finish the tournament in 8th place. Kazakhstan has 1,800 current players registered in the country (0.01% of its population). Their head coach is Yerlan Sagymbayev. The World Junior team played a game in late December 1999 in the rural Manitoba town Carman against the local senior team. The score was 7-4 Kazakhstan.

Contents [hide] 1 National Junior U20 Team 2 2006 Olympic team 3 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships roster 3.1 Goalkeepers 3.2 Defenders 3.3 Forwards 4 Olympic record 5 Nagano Cup 6 World Championships record 7 External links

[edit] National Junior U20 Team

Kazakhstan was promoted out of Pool B into Pool A for 1998. In Helsinki, Finland, the Kazakhs defeated Slovakia 5-2 to earn a spot in the quarter-finals. However, a devastating 14-1 loss to eventual gold-medalists Finland sent Kazakhstan to the placement games, where they defeated Canada 6-3 to finish 7th. It still stands as Kazakhstan's biggest win at the U20 level.

Nikolai Antropov became the first-ever Kazakh player drafted into the National Hockey League when selected the first-round by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1998. Antropov would captain the Kazakhstan team at the 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Kazakhstan tied Belarus 2-2 and defeated Switzerland 3-0 to finish third place in Group B and went on to play Canada in the quarter-finals. Canada won 12-2. Nikolai Zarzhitskiy scored both Kazakhstan goals and got player-of-the-game award. Kazakhstan finished 8th and avoided relegation.

Kazakhstan was without Nikolai Antropov when he decided to stay with the Maple Leafs for the 1999-00 NHL season. Kazakhstan was demolished 14-1 by Russia on December 25, 1999. Kazakhstan's only win was a 5-2 win over Ukraine to qualify for the quarter-finals. Kazakhstan lost to the Czech-Republic 6-3.

Kazakhstan's four-year stay at the World Junior Hockey Championships ended in 2001 when the Kazakhs went win-less and lost their fight to avoid relegation to Belarus.

Kazakhstan spent six years in Division I and nearly came close to being promoted back to the top level. In 2007, Kazakhstan was finally promoted by edging Norway 3-2 in an IIHF U20 Division I tournament in Torre Pellice, Italy.

Kazakhstan played in the 2008 World Junior Hockey Championships in Liberic, Czech-Republic. The Kazakhs wore only their white nike swift jerseys during the tournament because blue jerseys were not available. Kazakhstan was up 2-0 against Russia, but lost 5-4. Kazakhstan went on to defeat Switzerland 3-1 and defeated Denmark 6-3 to finished 8th.

Yakov Vorobyov became only the third Kazakh player to play in the Canadian Hockey League. Vorobyov played for the Ottawa 67's, but was released shortly after. Vadim Sozinov played for the Ottawa 67's in 2000-01 and Konstantin Pushkarov played for the Calgary Hitmen in 2004-05.

Kazakhstan boosted plenty of returning players from 2008 upon coming to Ottawa, Ontario2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Kazakhstan scored only 4 goals during the entire tournament and was relegated back to Division I after a 7-1 loss to Latvia. to compete in the

Oleg Bolyakin will remain as head coach for Kazakhstan as the Kazakhs will play in the 2010 World Junior Championships, Division 1 held in Gdansk, Poland from December 14–20, 2009. Kazakhstan will compete against Belarus, Italy, Norway, Croatia, and Poland.

[edit] 2006 Olympic team

Goaltenders

• Vitaliy Yeremeyev
• Vitaly Kolesnik
• Kirill Zinovyev

Defensemen

• Artyom Argokov
• Alexey Koledayev
• Oleg Kovalenko
• Yevgeniy Pupkov
• Denis Shemelin
• Vitaliy Tregubov
• Alexey Troshchinskiy
• Alexey Vassilchenko

Forwards

• Sergey Alexandrov
• Nik Antropov (C)
• Dmitriy Dudarev
• Aleksandr Koreshkov (A)
• Yevgeniy Koreshkov
• Andrey Ogorodnikov
• Andrey Pchelyakov
• Fedor Polishchuk
• Andrey Samokhvalov
• Konstantin Shafranov
• Andrey Troshchinskiy
• Dmitriy Upper (A)

[edit] 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships roster

[edit] Goalkeepers

• 1 Sergei Tambulov – Metallurg Serov
• 41 Roman Medvedev – Gornyak Rudnyi

[edit] Defenders

• 2 Yevgeniy Mazunyn – Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
• 26 Andrei Savenkov – Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
• 43 Yevgeniy Pupkov – SKA St. Petersburg
• 52 Aleksiy Kalendayev – HC Sibir Novosibirsk
• 64 Artem Argokov – Metallurg Novokuznetsk
• 7 Aleksiy Litvinenko – HC Spartak Moscow
• 12 Oleg Kovalenko – Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
• 16 Yevgeniy Blokhin – HC MVD Tver

[edit] Forwards

• 8 Andrey Troschinsky – Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
• 9 Vadim Rifel – Freiburg (Germany)
• 11 Talgat Zhaylauov – Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
• 17 Aleksandr Koreshkov – Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamegorsk
• 18 Konstantyn Shafranov – Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
• 19 Yevgeniy Koreshkov – Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
• 22 Andrey Ogorodnikov – Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
• 23 Andrey Pchelyakov – Krylia Sovetov
• 25 Andrey Samakhvalov – Khimik Voskresensk
• 32 Nikolai Zarzhitskiy – Motor Barnaul
• 36 Andrey Spiridonov – Barys Astana
• 81 Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev – Barys Astana

[edit] Olympic record

• 1920–1992 – Part of the Soviet Union
• 1994 – Did not qualify
• 1998 – Finished in 8th place
• 2002 – Did not qualify
• 2006 – Finished in 9th place
• 2010 – Did not qualify

[edit] Nagano Cup

• 2010 - 1st

[edit] World Championships record

• 1930–1992 – Part of the Soviet Union
• 1993 – Finished in 19th place (3rd in "Pool C")
• 1994 – Finished in 24th place (4th in "Pool C")
• 1995 – Finished in 22nd place (2nd in "Pool C")
• 1996 – Finished in 21st place (Won "Pool C")
• 1997 – Finished in 14th place (2nd in "Pool B")
• 1998 – Finished in 16th place
• 1999 – Finished in 19th place (3rd in "Pool B")
• 2000 – Finished in 18th place (2nd in "Pool B")
• 2001 – Finished in 21st place (3rd in "Division I, Group B")
• 2002 – Finished in 21st place (3rd in "Division I, Group A")
• 2003 – Finished in 17th place (Won "Division I, Group A")
• 2004 – Finished in 13th place
• 2005 – Finished in 12th place
• 2006 – Finished in 15th place
• 2007 – Finished in 21st place (3rd in "Division I, Group A")
• 2008 – Finished in 20th place (2nd in "Division I, Group A")

• 2009 - 1st in "Division I, Group A"

• 2010