Alexei Alexandrovich Vasilchenko

Alexei Vasilchenko
Date of birth	March 29, 1981
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size	188 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2002	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
2002-2003	HK Spartak Moscow Chimik Voskressensk
2003-2004	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2004-2007	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2007-2008	HK CSKA Moscow HK MWD Balashikha
2008-2011	Barys Astana
2011-2015	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2015-2016	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2016-2018	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
since 2018	CS Progym Gheorgheni

Alexei Alexandrowitsch Wassiltschenko ( Russian Алексей Александрович Васильченко ; born March 29, 1981 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who has been under contract with CS Progym Gheorgheni since July 2018 .

Career

Alexei Vasilchenko began his career as a hockey player with Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk , for which he made his debut in the Kazakh ice hockey championship in the 2000/01 season and immediately won the national championship . In the following season, the defender ran with a torpedo in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. He then received a contract with HK Spartak Moscow from the Russian Super League , but ended the 2002/03 season at Chimik Voskressensk in the Wysschaja Liga.

After a year with Salawat Yulayev Ufa from the super league, Vasilchenko spent the time from 2004 to 2007 with his league rivals Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk . He started the 2007/08 season at HK CSKA Moscow and finished it at HK MWD Balaschicha . For the 2008/09 season , the former national player and 2006 Olympian returned to his Kazakh homeland, where he signed with Barys Astana from the newly founded Continental Hockey League . After three years he left the team and switched to HK Tractor Chelyabinsk within the KHL for the 2011/12 season .

In the 2015/16 season, Vasilchenko was under contract with HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk .

International

For Kazakhstan , Vasilchenko took part in the junior division of the U20 World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the B World Championships in 2001 , 2002 and 2011 and at the A World Championships in 2005 and 2010 . He also represented Kazakhstan at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .

Achievements and Awards

• 2001 Kazakh champion with torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
• 2011 gold medal at the Asian Winter Games
• 2011 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group B

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	9	376	10	34	44	488
Playoffs	6th	52	2	7th	9	65

(Status: end of the 2016/17 season)

Web links

• Alexei Wassiltschenko at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Alexei Wassiltschenko at eurohockey.com