Alexander Gennadjewitsch Sasonow

Alexander Sazonov
Date of birth	November 29, 1980
place of birth	Omsk , Russian SFSR
size	188 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1999-2000	HK Awangard Omsk
2000-2001	Crystal Saratov
2001-2002	HK Metschel Chelyabinsk Mostowik Kurgan
2002-2011	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2011	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2011–2012	Vityaz Chekhov
2012-2013	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2013-2015	Ruby Tyumen

Alexander Gennadjewitsch Sasonow ( Russian Александр Геннадьевич Сазонов ; born November 29, 1980 in Omsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who was last under contract with Rubin Tyumen in the Wysschaja Hockey League .

Career

Alexander Sasonow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of the HK Awangard Omsk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the super league in the 1999/2000 season . In his rookie year he remained pointless in twelve games and received eight penalty minutes. After he had spent the following season at Kristall Saratow in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, the defender ran in the 2001/02 season in parallel for HK Metschel Tscheljabinsk in the Superliga and Mostowik Kurgan from the Wysschaja Liga.

In the summer of 2002, Sasonov signed a contract with HK Traktor Chelyabinsk , for which he has played since then. With his team, the Russian rose in the 2005/06 season as a second division champion in the super league. Between the 2008 and 2011 he was on the ice for the HK tractor in the newly established Continental Hockey League . At the end of the 2010/11 season, his contract with the HK tractor ran out and Sasonow decided in May 2011 to move within the KHL to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk . For the team, however, he only played 13 games in which he gave an assist before he was transferred to Vitjas Chekhov within the KHL in November 2011 .

In the 2012/13 season he was under contract with Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg .

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Champion of the Vysschaya League and promotion to the Super League with the HK tractor Chelyabinsk

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	158	13	26th	39	173
KHL playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	4th
Super League main round	4th	128	5	20th	25th	250
Super League Playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	4th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Alexander Sasonow at eliteprospects.com (English)