Alexander Georgievich Georgiev

Alexander Georgiev
Date of birth	February 10, 1996
place of birth	Russian , Bulgaria
size	185 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 40
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
until 2014	Chimik Voskressensk
2014-2017	TPS Turku
2017-2019	Hartford Wolf Pack
since 2018	New York Rangers

Alexander Georgievich Georgijew ( Russian Александр Георгиевич Георгиев ; English transcription: Alexandar Georgiev and Alexandar Georgiyev * 10 February 1996 in Russian ) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender Bulgarian origin, in July 2017 the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League contract stands.

Career

Alexander Georgiev was born in Bulgarian Russia, but moved with his family to Russia a little later and has since been citizens of both nations. He started playing ice hockey in Moscow and later moved to the youth department of Chimik Voskressensk . However, without being used in their professional department, the goalkeeper was drawn to the Finnish first division club TPS Turku for the 2014/15 season . For their U20 he ran from then on in the Jr. A SM-liiga , the highest junior league in Finland, while at the same time he played his first ten games for the men in the Liiga . After another year of play, alternating between professional field, junior selection and an engagement on loan at SaPKo in the second-class Mestis , he established himself as the second goalkeeper behind Oskari Setänen at Turku in the 2016/17 season . After 27 inserts and the league's best Gegentorschnitt of 1.70 Georgijew aroused the interest of teams in the National Hockey League (NHL), so he one in July 2017 entry contract with the New York Rangers signed, but without previously in an NHL Entry Draft takes into account to have become.

As expected, the Rangers used the goalkeeper on their farm team , the Hartford Wolf Pack , in the American Hockey League (AHL) before making his NHL debut in February 2018 and making a total of ten appearances by the end of the season. Georgiev has been a regular member of the Rangers' squad since the beginning of the 2018/19 season and initially acted as a backup for Henrik Lundqvist . In the 2019/20 season, however, the Bulgarian already played more games than the Swede, who for the first time in 15 years was ousted as the clear “number 1” of Broadway blueshirts .

International

Georgiev gained his first international experience with the Russian U20 national team at the U20 World Cup in 2016 . He denied doing five games, including the final that the Sbornaja against the hosts from Finland 3: 4 after Overtime lost and thus received the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 silver medal at the U20 World Cup
• 2019 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season										Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	OT	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%		Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2014/15	TPS Turku U20	Jr. A SM liiga		1							2.25	92.0		12						2.60	90.9
2014/15	TPS Turku	Liiga		14th	2	8th	2	759	28	2	2.21	91.7		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	TPS Turku U20	Jr. A SM liiga		9							2.85	90.5		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	SaPKo	Mestis		13				721		2	2.49	90.7		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	TPS Turku	Liiga		10	3	4th	0	395	15th	1	2.28	91.5		2	0	1	79	5	0	3.78	85.7
2016/17	TPS Turku	Liiga		27	13	8th	4th	1554	44	2	1.70	92.3		1	0	0	2	0	0	0.00	100.0
2017/18	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		37	14th	13	7th	2076	103	2	2.98	90.9		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL		10	4th	4th	1	515	27	0	3.15	91.8		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		11	2	9	0	624	38	0	3.66	88.3		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Rangers	NHL		33	14th	13	4th	1875	91	2	2.91	91.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL		34	17th	14th	2	1892	96	2	3.04	91.0		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Liiga overall				51	18th	20th	6th	2709	87	5	1.93	92.0		3	0	1	81	5	0	3.69	86.1
AHL total				48	16	22nd	7th	2700	141	2	3.13	90.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				77	35	31	7th	4281	214	4th	3.00	91.3		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Russia in:

• U20 World Junior Championship 2016
• World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2016	Russia	U20 World Cup			5	4th	1	310	13	0	2.52	89.8
2019	Russia	WM			2	2	0	120	0	2	0.00	100.0
Juniors overall					5	4th	1	310	13	0	2.52	89.8
Men overall					2	2	0	120	0	2	0.00	100.0

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

• Player biography on the New York Rangers website
• Alexander Georgiev at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kevin Woodley: Georgiev impresses with Rangers, joins wave of Russian goalies to NHL. nhl.com, March 16, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018 . 
2. ^ Rangers Agree to Terms with Free Agent Goaltender Alexandar Georgiev. nhl.com, July 19, 2017, accessed November 23, 2018 .