Andrei Sergejewitsch Jessipow

Andrei Yesipov
Date of birth	May 9, 1980
place of birth	Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1999	Krylya Sovetov Moscow
1999-2002	Yaroslavl locomotive
2002	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2002-2005	HK Lada Tolyatti
2005-2007	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2007-2008	Severstal Cherepovets
2008-2010	HK Lada Tolyatti
2010-2011	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2011-2013	HK Donbass Donetsk
since 2013	Sokol Krasnoyarsk

Andrei Sergejewitsch Jessipow ( Russian Андрей Сергеевич Есипов ; born May 9, 1980 in the Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Sokol Krasnoyarsk in the Vysschaja Hockey League since July 2013 .

Career

Andrei Jessipow began his career as a hockey player with Krylya Sowetow Moscow , for whose professional team he was active in the super league from 1996 to 1999 . In the following two and a half years, the defender played for his league rivals Lokomotiv Yaroslavl before he moved to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod during the 2001/02 season. By the end of the season he scored one goal in nine games for Torpedo. He then signed a contract with HK Lada Tolyatti , for which he was on the ice for three and a half years in the top Russian league. During the 2005/06 season he was finally committed by Metallurg Novokuznetsk , for which he played another year and a half in the Super League.

In the summer of 2007, Jessipow was signed by Severstal Tscherepowez . After another Super League season, he graduated in the 2008/09 season for Severstal in the newly founded Continental Hockey League 18 games, in which he gave two assists before he returned to HK Lada Tolyatti. After the team from Tolyatti had to withdraw to the new second Russian division, the Vysschaya Hockey League , he signed for the 2010/11 season with his ex-club Metallurg Novokuznetsk. For Metallurg he remained pointless in 51 KHL missions this season and received 22 penalty minutes. For the 2011/12 season he was committed by HK Donbass Donetsk from the Wysschaja Hockey League.

International

For Russia , Yessipov took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2000 , where he won the silver medal with his team. He contributed to this success with an assist in seven games.

Achievements and Awards

• 2000 silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	153	1	11	12	72
KHL playoffs	1	5	0	0	0	0
Super League main round	11	342	11	23	34	166
Super League Playoffs	6th	21st	3	2	5	20th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Andrei Jessipow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Andrei Jessipow at eliteprospects.com (English)