Alexander Yuryevich Selivanov

Alexander Selivanov
Date of birth	March 23, 1971
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1994 , 6th lap, 140th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1988-1994	HK Spartak Moscow
1994-1999	Tampa Bay Lightning
1999-2000	Edmonton Oilers
2000-2001	Columbus Blue Jackets
2001-2002	Frankfurt Lions
2002-2003	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2003	SKA Saint Petersburg
2003-2008	Krefeld penguins
2008	Friborg-Gottéron
2008-2009	EV Duisburg
2009-2010	HYS The Hague
2010	SC Bietigheim-Bissingen
2010-2011	EV Duisburg
2011–2012	HYS The Hague

Alexander Jurjewitsch Seliwanow ( Russian Александр Юрьевич Селиванов ; born March 23, 1971 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and today's coach , who was last assistant coach at Admiral Vladivostok from 2013 to 2015 .

Career

Selivanov began professional ice hockey in the team of the traditional Russian club HK Spartak Moscow . In the 1988/89 season, the left-handed player made his debut as a 17-year-old in the top division of the former USSR , with one game remaining. The winger only made three games in the following season, in which he remained without a point, before he was able to make a big step towards becoming a regular in the 1990/91 season with 21 games in which he scored 3 goals and one assist .

In the 1991/92 season, the Russian made his breakthrough in the Russian league with six goals and seven assists in 31 games. In the following season Selivanov reached a total of 31 points in 42 games and thus finally rose to the ranks of the top players in the league. Due to increasing performances, the National Hockey League became aware of the attacker, so that the Philadelphia Flyers secured the rights to the then 23-year-old in the sixth round in position 140 in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft . However, the Flyers swapped the rights to the junior player before the season for a four-round draft right to league rivals Tampa Bay Lightning . The 1994/95 season was marked by the lockout at the time . It was not until January that the league started playing and so Selivanov first had to play in the minor leagues . In a total of 18 appearances for the Atlanta Knights and the Chicago Wolves , the striker scored 4 goals and 8 points.

In the 1995/96 season , which was shortened to 48 games , Selivanov finally made 43 NHL appearances, in which he scored ten goals and reached 16 points. Only Roman Hamrlík , John Tucker , Petr Klíma and Brian Bradley scored more goals this season for the Tampa Bay Lightning , with 13 shots forming the top. In the following season, the Russian rose to the exquisite club of 30-goal scorers when, with 31 goals and 52 points, he became the third-best scorer and best scorer of a greatly improved team that even made it to the play-offs. In the following two years, however, the left-handed shooter did not reach this rate and only got 33 and 35 scorer points in 69 and 70 games. So it came about that the 1998/99 season was his last in Florida.

After only 19 points from 48 games, he was sent to Cleveland for two games in the IHL before being exchanged for Alexandre Daigle , the former top draft pick of 1993, to Edmonton . Selivanov finished the season with his new employer with 14 points and 8 goals from 29 games. In the end, he had a total of 27 hits and 47 points from 67 games. However, since his contract in Canada expired, the attacker finally switched to the newly founded Columbus Blue Jackets as an unrestricted free agent .

After an unsuccessful year in Columbus, Alexander Selivanov decided to return to Europe. The attacker moved to the DEL to the Frankfurt Lions for the 2001/02 season , where he was probably the most colorful personality in the league. But in the end he could not meet the exorbitant expectations despite a strong 61 points and 26 goals from 56 games and missed the play-offs with the Lions.

Selivanov went back to his homeland and was on the ice for HC Metallurg Magnitogorsk , where he was ultimately unable to convince with 12 points from 30 games. In the summer of 2003 he negotiated with Butch Goring , the then master trainer of the Krefeld Penguins , but ultimately preferred a much better paid offer from St. Petersburg. Here the Russian scored one goal and seven points in 21 appearances before he - frustrated by the defensive style of play in the Russian league - decided to move to Krefeld.

For the 2003/04 season , Alexander Seliwanow joined the penguins, where he was able to convince from the beginning and in a season that was unsuccessful for the team, his solos, his strong conclusion and his overview became a splash of color and a bearer of hope. 14 goals and 25 points from 30 games as well as strong performances at the Spengler Cup earned him a contract extension of two years until 2006. In the 2005/06 season , the attacker exceeded the mark of 55 points in the preliminary round, whereupon his contract was renewed for three years. Selivanov was in the 2005/2006 season with 30 goals top scorer of the DEL. On January 29, 2008, his contract with the Krefeld Penguins was terminated with immediate effect and he moved to the Swiss first division club Friborg-Gottéron . Two days later it was announced that the left shooter would return to the DEL for the 2008/09 season to storm for EV Duisburg . After the Füchse bankruptcy, he moved to HYS The Hague . At the beginning of the 2010/11 season he played three games for SC Bietigheim-Bissingen in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey, before he joined the now third-rate EV Duisburg after his contract was terminated in October 2010. For the 2011/12 season he returned to HYS The Hague in the Netherlands and became a player-coach at his ex-club.

He retired in 2012 and was the head coach of HYS The Hague for the 2012/13 season. Between 2013 and 2015 he was an assistant coach at Admiral Vladivostok .

Alexander Selivanov is married to the daughter of ice hockey legend Phil Esposito and has three children.

Career statistics

Alexander Selivanov in action, 2004

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1988/89	HK Spartak Moscow	USSR		1	0	0	0	0
1989/90	HK Spartak Moscow	USSR		4th	0	0	0	0
1990/91	HK Spartak Moscow	USSR		21st	3	1	4th	6th
1991/92	HK Spartak Moscow	RUS		31	6th	7th	13	16
1992/93	HK Spartak Moscow	RUS		42	12	19th	31	66		3	2	0	2	2
1993/94	HK Spartak Moscow	RUS		45	30th	11	41	50		6th	5	1	6th	2
1994/95	Atlanta Knights	IHL		4th	0	3	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Chicago Wolves	IHL		14th	4th	1	5	8th		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		43	10	6th	16	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		79	31	21st	52	93		6th	2	2	4th	6th
1996/97	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		69	15th	18th	33	61		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		70	16	19th	35	85		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Cleveland Lumberjacks	IHL		2	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		43	6th	13	19th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		29	8th	6th	14th	24		2	0	1	1	2
1999/00	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		67	27	20th	47	46		5	0	0	0	8th
2000/01	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		59	8th	11	19th	38		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		58	26th	35	61	87		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	RUS		30th	6th	6th	12	28		1	0	0	0	0
2003/04	SKA Saint Petersburg	RUS		21st	1	6th	7th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Krefeld penguins	DEL		30th	14th	11	25th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Krefeld penguins	DEL		50	18th	24	42	101		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Krefeld penguins	DEL		51	30th	29	59	101		5	0	1	1	6th
2006/07	Krefeld penguins	DEL		52	15th	25th	40	62		2	0	0	0	4th
2007/08	Krefeld penguins	DEL		32	10	11	21st	24		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		3	1	0	1	2		2	0	0	0	2
2008/09	EV Duisburg	DEL
Soviet ice hockey league overall				26th	3	1	4th	6th		0	0	0	0	0
Superliga (RUS) overall				169	55	49	104	170		10	7th	1	8th	4th
IHL total				20th	4th	5	9	14th		0	0	0	0	0
DEL total				273	113	135	248	389		7th	0	1	1	10
NHL overall				459	121	114	235	379		13	2	3	5	16

( 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

• Alexander Seliwanow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Alexander Seliwanow at eurohockey.com
• Alexander Seliwanow at eliteprospects.com (English)