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]
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Players
= Active in 2012-13 season | = Signed for 2013-14 season | = Active in 2013-14 season | = Retired |
NAT | Name | POS | GP | G | A | PTS | Birthplace | Team | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Viktor Andrushenko | F | 59 | 3 | 11 | 14 | Kyiv | (Belarus) | [3] | |
Vitali Anikeyenko[☦] | D | 144 | 14 | 35 | 49 | Kyiv | - | [4] | |
Anton Babchuk ★ | D | 80 | 10 | 15 | 25 | Kyiv | Salavat Yulaev | [5] | |
Denis Bayev | D | 156 | 9 | 15 | 24 | Konotop | (VHL) | [6] | |
Yevgeni Belukhin | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Arzamas-16 | Donbass | [7][8] | |
Dmytriy Berezin | G | 1 | - | - | - | Novosibirsk | Unsigned | [9] | |
Roman Blahoi | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kyiv | Donbass | [10] | |
Anton But | LW | 249 | 66 | 82 | 148 | Kharkiv | Unsigned | [11] | |
Denis Denisov | D | 250 | 32 | 63 | 95 | Kharkiv | CSKA | [b][12] | |
Vitali Donika | C | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Kyiv | (VHL) | [13] | |
Ruslan Fedotenko | LW | 33 | 8 | 10 | 18 | Kyiv | Donbass | [14] | |
Serhiy Haiduchenko | G | 78 | - | - | - | Kyiv | Donbass | [15] | |
Kostiantyn Kasianchuk | F | 170 | 29 | 35 | 64 | Kyiv | Dynamo | [16] | |
Serhiy Klymentiev | D | 39 | 2 | 4 | 6 | Kyiv | - | [17] | |
Alexander Komaristy | C | 176 | 19 | 37 | 56 | Severodonetsk | Neftekhimik | [18] | |
Maxim Kvitchenko | F | 25 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Kyiv | Donbass | [19] | |
Vitaliy Liutkevych | D | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Kyiv | (VHL) | [20] | |
Oleksandr Materukhin | LW | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kyiv | Dinamo-Minsk | [21] | |
Alexei Mikhnov | LW | 200 | 45 | 61 | 106 | Kyiv | Atlant | [22] | |
Andriy Mikhnov | LW | 109 | 10 | 12 | 22 | Kyiv | (Belarus) | [23] | |
Yegor Morozov | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [✪]Tolyatti | Donbass | [24] | |
Artem Ostroushko | D | 51 | 5 | 8 | 13 | Kyiv | - | [25] | |
Denis Petrukhno | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kyiv | Donbass | [26] | |
Fedor Polischuk | LW | 221 | 20 | 48 | 68 | Kolodyste | Barys | [27] | |
Alexei Ponikarovsky | LW | 32 | 5 | 13 | 18 | Kyiv | Kunlun | [28] | |
Gennady Razin | D | 237 | 9 | 29 | 38 | Kharkiv | Donbass | [29] | |
Andrei Sergeyev | D | 104 | 4 | 9 | 13 | Simferopol | Spartak | [30] | |
Oleh Shafarenko | F | 21 | 2 | 4 | 6 | Kyiv | (Belarus) | [31] | |
Vadym Shakhraychuk | C | 103 | 15 | 12 | 17 | Kyiv | Unsigned | [32] | |
Vladislav Shalimov | RW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belovo | Donbass | [33][34] | |
Egor Shastin | F | 141 | 34 | 42 | 76 | Kyiv | (Swiss) | [35] | |
Mykhailo Shevchuk | G | 0 | - | - | - | Kharkiv | Donbass | [36] | |
Denis Shvidki | RW | 37 | 3 | 4 | 7 | Kharkiv | (MOL Liga) | [37] | |
Dmytro Shvidenko | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lubny | Ugra | [38] | |
Yuri Silnitsky | D | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Tyumen | Donbass | [39][40] | |
Kostiantyn Simchuk | G | 13 | - | - | - | Kyiv | - | [41] | |
Daniil Sobchenko[☦] | C | 51 | 6 | 2 | 8 | Kyiv | - | [42] | |
Alexei Strakhov | RW | 25 | 3 | 3 | 6 | Kharkiv | - | [43] | |
Volodymyr Tkachev | D | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dnipropetrovsk | Ak Bars | [44] | |
Oleksandr Toryanik | RW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharkiv | Donbass | [45] | |
Oleg Tverdovsky | D | 191 | 29 | 51 | 80 | Donetsk | - | [46] | |
Serhiy Varlamov | LW | 133 | 24 | 26 | 50 | Kyiv | Donbass | [47] | |
Vitaly Vishnevsky | D | 263 | 25 | 44 | 69 | Kharkiv | Lokomotiv | [48] | |
Alexander Vyukhin[☦] | G | 87 | - | - | - | Sverdlovsk | - | [49] | |
Viktor Zakharov | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kyiv | Donbass | [50] | |
Ignat Zemchenko | C | 80 | 9 | 7 | 16 | Kyiv | Severstal | [51] | |
Nikolay Zherdev ★ | RW | 155 | 44 | 78 | 122 | Kyiv | Severstal | [52] | |
Alexei Zhitnik ★ | D | 112 | 4 | 14 | 18 | Kyiv | - | [53] |
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
- Ukraine
- Nationalized to Ukraine
- Russia
- Kazakhstan
- Belarus
- Neutral
Captains
Several 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
The following is a list of KHL players who while not born in Ukraine, are of documented Ukrainian descent.
Notes
- 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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