Oleksiy Ponikarowskyj
Date of birth | April 9, 1980 |
place of birth | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |
size | 193 cm |
Weight | 100 kg |
position | Left wing |
number | # 23 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1998 , 4th round, 87th position Toronto Maple Leafs |
Career stations | |
until 1999 | HK Dynamo Moscow |
1999-2000 | THK Tver |
2000 | HK Dynamo Moscow |
2004-2005 | Chimik Voskressensk |
2000-2010 | Toronto Maple Leafs |
2010 | Pittsburgh Penguins |
2010-2011 | Los Angeles Kings |
2011–2012 | Carolina Hurricanes |
2012-2013 | New Jersey Devils |
2012 | HK Donbass Donetsk |
2013-2016 | SKA Saint Petersburg |
since 2016 | Kunlun Red Star |
Oleksiy Wolodymyrowytsch Ponikarowskyj ( Ukrainian Олексій Володимирович Понікаровський , Russian Алексей Владимирович Поникаровский Alexei Vladimirovich Ponikarowski * 9. April 1980 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Canadian - Ukrainian - Russian hockey player , the last 2,016 to 2,018 at Kunlun Red Star in the Continental Hockey League was under contract.
Career
Born in Kiev , Ukraine , Ponikarowskyj played until 1999 - in addition to a few appearances for city rival Krylja Sowetow Moscow - exclusively at HK Dynamo Moscow . About the youth teams first in the second team in the third class Pervaya League and second class Wysschaja Liga , then later in the first team in the Super League . In the 1998 NHL Entry Draft , the Ukrainian was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the fourth round in 87th position . The striker spent the 1999/2000 season at THK Tver in the Wysschaja Liga, but returned to Dynamo before the end of the season. With the team he won the Russian championship at the end of the season and also played in the European Hockey League .
For the 2000/01 season , the player moved to North America and in the first three years came mainly for Toronto's farm team , the St. John's Maple Leafs , in the American Hockey League . From the 2003/04 season , the winger became a regular with the Maple Leafs. In his first full season Ponikarowskyj completed 73 games and scored 28 points scorer . In addition, he was used in 13 playoff games, in which he scored four more points. The NHL season 2004/05 failed due to a lockout , he spent at the Russian club Chimik Voskressensk .
After the lockout, Ponikarowskyj had his statistically most successful season in the 2008/09 season; The Power Forward scored 23 goals and 38 assists in 82 games . The Toronto Maple Leafs could, as in the previous three seasons, not qualify for the play-offs again. After ten years with the Maple Leafs, the player was given to the Pittsburgh Penguins in March 2010 , while the Maple Leafs received Martin Škoula and Luca Caputi in return . With the Penguins Ponikarowskyj was used in 16 games of the regular season. In addition, he completed eleven play-off games for the Penguins before the team lost to the Montreal Canadiens in the Eastern Conference semifinals .
His expiring contract was not renewed, whereupon he signed a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings in July 2010 as a free agent . After Ponikarowskyj had completed 61 games for the Kings, this contract was not renewed. On July 1, 2011 Ponikarowskyj signed a contract - again for a season - with the Carolina Hurricanes .
These transferred him on January 20, 2012 in exchange for Joe Sova and a four-round vote in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft to the New Jersey Devils . As a free agent, he signed a one-year contract with the Winnipeg Jets in July 2012 . Due to the NHL lockout Ponikarowskyj played between September and December 2012 for HK Donbass Donetsk in the Continental Hockey League . After two goals in twelve games, he was handed over to the New Jersey Devils in February 2013 by the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for two draft picks in 2013 and 2014.
Between August 2013 and 2016 Ponikarowskyj was under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg from the Continental Hockey League. In August 2013 he received Russian citizenship in addition to Canadian and Ukrainian citizenship in order not to fall under the quota of foreigners in the KHL.
In April 2015 he won the Gagarin Cup with the SKA . He then played for two years for the Chinese KHL participant Kunlun Red Star , where he was team captain in the 2017/18 season.
International
Ponikarowskyj represented his native Ukraine at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . In four tournament games, he scored one goal in the last group game against France and prepared another one beforehand in the game against Switzerland . In addition, at the end of the tournament there were six penalty minutes and a balanced plus / minus balance for the striker.
Achievements and Awards
- 2000 Russian champion with HK Dynamo Moscow
- 2015 Gagarin Cup won with SKA Saint Petersburg
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1996/97 | HK Dynamo Moscow II | Pervaya League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1997/98 | HK Dynamo Moscow II | Vysschaya League | 24 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 30th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1998/99 | Krylya Sovetov Moscow | Super league | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
HK Dynamo Moscow II | Vysschaya League | 28 | 12 | 3 | 15th | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
HK Dynamo Moscow | Super league | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
1999/00 | HK Dynamo Moscow | Super league | 19th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
THK Tver | Vysschaya League | 29 | 8th | 14th | 22nd | 26th | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2000/01 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 22nd | 1 | 3 | 4th | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 49 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 44 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | |||
2001/02 | St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 72 | 21st | 27 | 74 | 19th | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8th | ||
Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 8th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2002/03 | St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 63 | 24 | 22nd | 46 | 68 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 13 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2003/04 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 73 | 9 | 19th | 28 | 44 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 8th | ||
2004/05 | Chimik Voskressensk | Super league | 19th | 1 | 5 | 6th | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2005/06 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 81 | 21st | 17th | 38 | 68 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2006/07 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 71 | 21st | 24 | 45 | 63 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2007/08 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 66 | 18th | 17th | 35 | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2008/09 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 82 | 23 | 38 | 61 | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2009/10 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 61 | 19th | 22nd | 41 | 44 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 16 | 2 | 7th | 9 | 17th | 11 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 4th | |||
2010/11 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 61 | 5 | 10 | 15th | 36 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
2011/12 | Carolina Hurricanes | NHL | 49 | 7th | 8th | 15th | 26th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
New Jersey Devils | NHL | 33 | 7th | 11 | 18th | 8th | 24 | 1 | 8th | 9 | 12 | |||
2012/13 | HK Donbass Donetsk | KHL | 32 | 5 | 13 | 18th | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 30th | 2 | 5 | 7th | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | SKA Saint Petersburg | KHL | 51 | 6th | 9 | 15th | 38 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | ||
2014/15 | SKA Saint Petersburg | KHL | 32 | 2 | 6th | 8th | 24 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4th | ||
2015/16 | SKA Saint Petersburg | KHL | 40 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 30th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2016/17 | Kunlun Red Star | KHL | 52 | 7th | 7th | 14th | 34 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
2017/18 | Kunlun Red Star | KHL | 51 | 6th | 7th | 13 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Wysschaja League overall | 81 | 21st | 19th | 40 | 88 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
Super league overall | 51 | 4th | 6th | 10 | 26th | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
AHL total | 184 | 57 | 73 | 130 | 186 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | ||||
NHL overall | 678 | 139 | 184 | 323 | 419 | 62 | 4th | 15th | 19th | 28 | ||||
KHL total | 256 | 29 | 43 | 72 | 162 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 8th |
International
year | team | event | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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2002 | Ukraine | Olympia | 4th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6th | |
2013 | Ukraine | Olympic qualification | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | |
Men overall | 7th | 3 | 4th | 7th | 6th |
( 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
- Oleksij Ponikarowskyj at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Oleksij Ponikarowskyj at eurohockey.com
- Oleksij Ponikarowskyj at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ nhl.com, Ponikarovsky happy to be back in a familiar place
- ↑ Хоккеист Поникаровский получил российский паспорт - президент СКА. In: rsport.ria.ru. August 29, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ponikarowskyj, Oleksij |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ponikarovsky, Alexei (English spelling); Понікаровський, Олексій Володимирович (Ukrainian spelling); Ponikarowskyj, Olexij Wolodymyrowytsch; Поникаровский, Алексей Владимирович (Russian spelling); Ponikarowski, Alexei Vladimirovich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |