Andrei Jurjewitsch Strachow

Andrei Strachow
Date of birth	17th November 1978
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
size	181 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
number	# 77
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1995-1996	EV Füssen
1996-2000	EHC Freiburg
2000-2001	Heilbronn EC
2001-2002	Munich Barons
2002-2004	Augsburg panther
2004-2006	Frankfurt Lions
2006	ERC Ingolstadt
2006-2007	Amur Khabarovsk
2007-2010	Chimik Voskressensk
2010-2011	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2011-2016	Starbulls Rosenheim
since 2016	Hanover Scorpions

Andrei Jurjewitsch Strachow ( Russian Андрей Юрьевич Страхов , often Andrej Strakhov ; born November 17, 1978 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a German - Russian ice hockey player . In 2016 he was hired as the sporting director of the Hannover Scorpions from the ice hockey league . Due to injuries to the small squad, he continued his active career.

Career

Strachow began his career as a hockey player in Germany at EV Füssen , for whose professional team he made his debut in the second-class 1st League South in the 1995/96 season . The center then played for EHC Freiburg in the second German division for four years . He spent the 2000/01 season at Heilbronn EC in the 2nd Bundesliga . For the team he scored 53 points scorer in 52 games, including 26 goals, whereupon he received a contract with the Munich Barons from the German Ice Hockey League for the 2001/02 season . In the same season he also played in a game for SC Riessersee in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Following the resettlement of the Munich Barons to Hamburg and their renaming to Hamburg Freezers , Strachow signed a contract with the Augsburg Panthers , for which he was active in the DEL from 2002 to 2004. He then moved to the reigning German champions Frankfurt Lions , for whom he also played for two years. The 2006/07 season began the left-handed shooter at ERC Ingolstadt , but left it after 17 games without a scorer point and joined Amur Khabarovsk , for whom he was on the ice for a year in the Russian Super League . In the middle of the 2007/08 season , the German- Russian signed a contract with Chimik Voskressensk from the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. With Chimik, he immediately succeeded as a second division champion in the newly founded Continental Hockey League .

In the 2008/09 season Strachow played 44 games for Chimik Woskressensk in the KHL. He scored seven goals and gave eight assists. Then the team had to withdraw for financial reasons in the Wysschaja Liga, in which he was also active the following season . For the 2010/11 season he returned to the DEL after three and a half years in Russia and accepted a contract offer from Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg . At the beginning of July 2011 Strachow was committed by the Starbulls Rosenheim from the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga.

After 21 years as a professional, Strachow ended his career after the 2015/16 season and became the sporting director of the Hannover Scorpions , but returned to the ice after only half a year.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Champion of the Wysschaja League and promotion to the KHL with Chimik Woskressensk

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	1	44	7th	8th	15th	54
KHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Super League main round	2	24	0	6th	6th	10
Super League Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
DEL main round	6th	268	28	37	65	90
DEL playoffs	2	18th	0	0	0	4th

(Status: end of the 2009/10 season)

Web links

• Andrei Strachow at eurohockey.com
• Andrei Strachow at eliteprospects.com (English)