Alexander Alexandrovich Tschornych

Alexander Tschornych
Date of birth	September 22, 1965
place of birth	Voskressensk , Russian SFSR
size	183 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1983 , 10th lap, 185th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1982-1985	Chimik Voskressensk
1985-1987	SKA MWO Kalinin
1987-1989	Chimik Voskressensk

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Tschornych ( Russian Александр Александрович Чёрных ; born September 22, 1965 in Voskressensk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Soviet - Russian ice hockey player . His son Dmitri is also a hockey player.

Career

During his career, Alexander Tschornych played for Chimik Voskressensk , a few games for CSKA Moscow and SKA MWO Kalinin in the Pervaya League . In the 1983 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the tenth round in 185th place by the New Jersey Devils . Due to the political situation in what was then the Soviet Union , he never played in the National Hockey League . In total, he scored 59 goals in 231 games in the highest Soviet league, the Wysschaja Liga .

In the summer of 1989 he had to end his career due to the health consequences of a car accident.

International

As a junior, Tschornych was internationally active for the Soviet Union and won two U20 world championship titles ( 1983 and 1984 ), one U18 European championship title ( 1984 ) and another bronze medal at the 1985 World Junior Championship

On October 29, 1987, he was in a game against Czechoslovakia for the first time for the Soviet men's national team on the ice. His international career was crowned with a gold medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics . For the national team, he scored 12 goals in 45 international matches. On May 1, 1989, he played his last international match.

Achievements and Awards

• 1983 gold medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1983 gold medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
• 1984 gold medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1985 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1988 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 1988 Medal "For Heroic Work"
• 1988 Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
• 1989 gold medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Club competitions

season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1981/82	Chimik Voskressensk	Vysschaya League	1	0	0	0	0
1982/83	Chimik Voskressensk	Vysschaya League	46	12	5	17th	26th
1983/84	Chimik Voskressensk	Vysschaya League	44	12	5	17th	32
1984/85	Chimik Voskressensk	Vysschaya League	48	9	10	19th	32
1985/86	CSKA Moscow	Vysschaya League	10	3	3	6th	6th
1985/86	SKA MWO Kalinin	Pervaya League	34	29	16	45	59
1986/87	SKA MWO Kalinin	Pervaya League	57	32	30th	62	52
1987/88	Chimik Voskressensk	Vysschaya League	41	14th	15th	29	34
1988/89	Chimik Voskressensk	Vysschaya League	41	9	12	21st	32
Wysschaja League overall			231	59	50	109	162
Total Pervaya League			91	61	46	107	111

International

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		result
1983	USSR	U20 World Cup		7th	1	0	1	0		gold medal
1983	USSR	U18 European Championship		4th	3	9	12	23		gold medal
1984	USSR	U20 World Cup		7th	7th	7th	14th	12		gold medal
1985	USSR	U20 World Cup		7th	6th	2	8th	10		Bronze medal
1988	USSR	Olympia		8th	2	2	4th	4th		gold medal
1989	USSR	WM		7th	0	1	1	8th		gold medal

Web links

• Alexander Tschornych at hockeydb.com (English)
• Alexander Tschornych at chidlovski.net (engl.)
• Alexander Tschornych in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Alexander Tschornych at hockeydraftcentral.com