Alexei Litvinenko

Alexei Litvinenko
Date of birth	March 7, 1980
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size	195 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	defender
number	# 6
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1999 , 9th lap, 262nd position Phoenix Coyotes
Career stations
until 1999	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
1999-2000	HK Dynamo Moscow
2000-2001	Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg
2001-2004	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2004-2005	SKA Saint Petersburg
2005-2006	HK Spartak Moscow
2006-2008	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2008	HK Spartak Moscow
2008-2010	Vityaz Chekhov
2010-2016	Barys Astana

Alexei Nikolajewitsch Litvinenko ( Russian Алексей Николаевич Литвиненко ; born March 7, 1980 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who was last under contract with Barys Astana in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Alexei Litvinenko began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the junior division of Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Vysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, in the 1998/99 season . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 in the ninth round as a total of 262nd player by the Phoenix Coyotes , which then did not sign him. In the following season, the defender ran parallel for HK Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Super League . The 2000/01 season he finally spent at his league rivals Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg .

In the summer of 2001 Litvinenko was committed by the reigning Russian champion HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , with whom he failed in the 2003/04 season only in the championship final at HK Avangard Omsk . For the next two years, the former international was on the ice for SKA Saint Petersburg and HK Spartak Moscow before returning to his ex-club from Magnitogorsk for the 2006/07 season. With this he achieved the greatest success of his career so far, when he won the Russian championship with Metallurg . In the 2007/08 season Litvinenko completed only games for Metallurg's second team in the third-rate Pervaya League . Even at Spartak Moscow, where he ended the season, he could not prevail and only came to nine first division appearances in the entire season.

In the summer of 2008 Litvinenko signed a contract with Vitjas Chekhov from the newly founded Continental Hockey League , for which he was regularly used. In 2010 he moved to league rival Barys Astana , for whom he was on the ice until 2016 and completed over 190 KHL games.

International

For Kazakhstan , Litvinenko took part in the junior division of the U18-D European Championship in 1998 and the U20-A World Championship in 1999 and 2000 .

With the men he was in the B-World Championship in 2000 and after the conversion to the current division system in Division I at the World Championships in 2001 and 2015 in the Kazakhs' squad. In 2005 , 2006 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 he played in the top division. He also represented his colors at the qualifying tournaments for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 and in Sochi in 2014 . At the 2011 Asian Winter Games , he and his team won the gold medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 Won the U18-D European Championship
• 2004 Russian runner-up with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2007 Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2011 gold medal at the Asian Winter Games
• 2015 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	7th	221	15th	28	43	468
Playoffs	4th	25th	1	3	4th	16

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

• Alexei Litvinenko at eurohockey.com
• Alexei Litwinenko at eliteprospects.com (English)