Alexei Sergejewitsch Zwetkow

Alexei Zwetkow
Date of birth	August 28, 1981
place of birth	Rybinsk , Russian SFSR
size	174 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2000	Severstal Cherepovets
2000-2004	SKA Saint Petersburg
2004	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2004-2007	HK MWD Tver
2007-2010	HK MWD Balashikha
2010–2012	Severstal Cherepovets
2012-2017	HK Dynamo Moscow
2017-2018	HK Sochi

Alexei Sergejewitsch Zwetkow ( Russian Алексей Сергеевич Цветков ; born August 28, 1981 in Rybinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with HK Sochi in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Alexei Zwetkow began his career as a hockey player in the junior division of Severstal Tscherepowez , for whose second team he was active from 1998 to 2000 in the third-rate Pervaya League . At the same time, he made his debut in the Super League for Severstal's professional team in the 1999/2000 season . In his rookie year he remained pointless in a total of eleven games and received eight penalty minutes. In the following four years the center stood for Severstal league rivals SKA Saint Petersburg on the ice, where he ended the 2003/04 season at Salawat Yulayev Ufa , for which he played two more games in the Super League by the end of the season.

For the 2004/05 season Zwetkow moved to HK MWD Tver from the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. As a second division champion, he rose with his team straight away in the super league. Even after the team moved to Balaschikha following the 2006/07 season , the Russian stayed with the team. With the HK MWD, which took part in the newly founded Continental Hockey League since the 2008/09 season , he reached the final of the Gagarin Cup in the 2009/10 season , in which he and his team were defeated by last year's champion Ak Bars Kazan . Zwetkow himself had a large share in the finals with five goals and eleven assists in 22 playoffs.

For the 2010/11 season Zwetkow signed a contract with his ex-club Severstal Tscherepowez, for which he completed over 110 KHL games in the following two game years. In May 2012 Zwetkow received a two-year contract with HK Dynamo Moscow and was one of the top performers in the following years. In the 2015/16 season he was even the top scorer within the team with 39 points.

In the summer of 2017, his current contract with Dynamo was canceled by the KHL and Zwetkow moved to HK Sotschi . Zwetkow has not actively played ice hockey since 2018.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 Champion of the Wysschaja League and promotion to the Super League with HK MWD Tver
• 2010 Best assists in the KHL playoffs (together with Alexander Radulow )
• 2013 Gagarin Cup win with HK Dynamo Moscow

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes	Plus minus
KHL main round	9	460	72	197	269	409	+60
KHL playoffs	8th	92	17th	26th	43	68	+18
Super League main round	8th	309	30th	86	116	304	−23
Super League Playoffs	3	9	1	3	4th	8th	−6

(Status: end of the 2016/17 season)

Web links

• Alexei Zwetkow at eliteprospects.com (English)