Andrei Valeryevich Rychagow (ice hockey player)

Andrei Rychagov
Date of birth	August 25, 1982
place of birth	Kuibyshev , Russian SFSR
size	181 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 28
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2003	SKA Saint Petersburg
2003-2004	HK Spartak Saint Petersburg
2004-2006	HK MWD Tver
2006-2007	Chimik Voskressensk
2007-2008	HK MWD Balashikha
2008-2009	SKA Saint Petersburg
2009-2010	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2010-2011	Crystal Saratov
2011–2012	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2012-2013	HK Lada Tolyatti
2013	Crystal Saratov
2013-2014	Disel Pensa
since 2014	SKA Neva Saint Petersburg

Andrei Valerjewitsch Rytschagow ( Russian Андрей Валерьевич Рычагов ; born August 25, 1982 in Kuibyshev , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with SKA-Neva Saint Petersburg in the Vysschaya Hockey League since 2014 .

Career

Andrei Rychagov began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of the SKA Saint Petersburg , for whose professional team he was active in the Russian Super League from 2000 to 2003 . At the same time, he has been on the ice for the club's second team in the third-class Pervaya League since 1999 . After he was already in the 2002/03 season for HK Spartak Saint Petersburg in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, he spent the following season completely at HK Spartak. In the 2004/05 season he ran for HK MWD Tver in the Wysschaja Liga and in parallel in eight games for their league rivals HK Lipetsk . With the HK MWD he rose as a second division champion in the super league, in which he played with the team in the 2005/06 season.

In the 2006/07 season Rychagov went to the second division Chimik Voskressensk . In the following season he ran again for the HK MWD in the Super League, which had in the meantime been relocated to Balaschicha. For the 2008/09 season he returned to SKA Saint Petersburg from the newly established Continental Hockey League . For this he prepared a goal in 19 games. In the 2009/10 season he returned to the Wysschaja Liga and rose with HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk as the second division champion straight away in the KHL. He himself had to leave the club and was in the 2010/11 season for Kristall Saratov in the new Russian second division, the Wysschaja Hockey League , on the ice.

For the 2011/12 season Rychagov was committed by the KHL participant Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg .

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 Champion of the Wysschaja League and promotion to the Super League with HK MWD Tver
• 2010 Champion of the Vysschaja League and promotion to the KHL with HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	2	28	1	1	2	14th
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2016/17 season)

Web links

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