Aleh Jawenka

Aleh Jawenka
Date of birth	January 21, 1991
place of birth	Minsk , Belarusian SSR
size	201 cm
Weight	107 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 5th round, 107th position Barys Astana
Career stations
until 2008	HK Junost Minsk
2008-2009	Krefelder EV
2009-2011	Fargo Force
2011-2015	University of Massachusetts Amherst
2015	Adirondack Flames
2015-2017	Lake Erie / Cleveland Monsters
2017-2018	Stockton Heat
since 2018	HK Dinamo Minsk

Aleh Sjarhejewitsch Jawenka ( Belarusian Алег Сяргеевіч Явенка , Russian Олег Сергеевич Евенко / Oleg Sergejewitsch Yevenko; born January 21, 1991 in Minsk , Belarusian hockey league from the Belarusian hockey league from the Belarusian Minsk , Belarusian hockey league from the Belarusian SSR May 2018, under the Belarusian hockey league under the Dinamo Minsk, Belarusian hockey league under the Dinamo Minsk May 2018 ) and plays for this in the position of the defender .

Career

Jawenka learned to play ice hockey in his Belarusian homeland, where he played in the junior department of HK Junost Minsk until summer 2008 . For the 2008/09 season , the defender moved to the German junior league , where he went on the ice for the Krefeld EV . The Belarusian then moved to North America and was there for two years in the United States Hockey League for the Fargo Force before he began studying. For this he enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and played there for the next four years for the university team in the Hockey East , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

After completing his studies, Jawenka was hired on probation by the Adirondack Phantoms from the American Hockey League . For the 2015/16 season , he moved within the league to the Lake Erie Monsters , which traded as Cleveland Monsters in the following game year . When his contract expired in the summer of 2017, the defender became a free agent , after which he accepted a contract with the Stockton Heat from the AHL in September 2017 . After a season there in which he made 23 appearances, he returned to his hometown in May 2018 to play for HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League .

International

Jawenka played for the Belarusian national team for the first time in the junior division at the U18 Junior World Championship of Division I in 2009 . There he and the team succeeded in returning to the top division. He played for the men's selection at the 2014 , 2015 , 2016 and 2017 World Championships as well as qualifying for the 2018 Winter Olympics .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship of Division I.
• 2019 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.

Career statistics

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008/09	Krefelder EV	DNL		31	5	11	16	85		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Fargo Force	USHL		49	4th	5	9	119		13	1	0	1	26th
2010/11	Fargo Force	USHL		52	4th	4th	8th	197		3	0	0	0	4th
2011/12	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Hockey East		33	1	2	3	38
2012/13	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Hockey East		31	0	1	1	55
2013/14	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Hockey East		32	0	1	1	67
2014/15	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Hockey East		36	0	5	5	51
2014/15	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		4th	0	0	0	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		54	1	3	4th	152		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Cleveland Monsters	AHL		49	0	6th	6th	90		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Stockton Heat	AHL		23	0	4th	4th	79		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		44	2	1	3	67		-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				101	8th	9	17th	316		16	1	0	1	30th
NCAA overall				132	1	9	10	211
AHL total				130	1	13	14th	335		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Belarus at:

U18 Junior World Championship Division I 2009 World Championship 2014 World Championship 2015 World Championship 2016

Qualification for the Olympic Winter Games 2018 World Championship 2017 Division IA World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Belarus	U18 World Championship Div. I.	1st place		5	0	2	2	6th
2014	Belarus	WM	7th place		8th	0	2	2	6th
2015	Belarus	WM	7th place		8th	0	0	0	2
2016	Belarus	WM	12th place		7th	0	0	0	12
2016	Belarus	Olympic qualification	2nd place		3	0	0	0	2
2017	Belarus	WM	13th place		7th	0	0	0	4th
2019	Belarus	WM Div. IA	2nd place		5	1	0	1	0
Juniors overall					5	0	2	2	6th
Men overall					38	1	2	3	26th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Aleh Jawenka at eliteprospects.com (English)