Andrei Viktorovich Nazarow

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RussiaRussia  Andrei Nazarov Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 22, 1974
place of birth Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
size 196 cm
Weight 104 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 1st lap, 10th position
San Jose Sharks
Career stations
until 1991 HK Metschel Chelyabinsk
1991-1993 HK Dynamo Moscow
1993-1995 Kansas City Blades
1995-1998 San Jose Sharks
1998-1999 Tampa Bay Lightning
1999-2000 Calgary Flames
2000 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
2000-2002 Boston Bruins
2002-2004 Phoenix Coyotes
2004-2005 HK Avangard Omsk
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2005-2006 Minnesota Wild

Andrei Wiktorowitsch Nazarow ( Russian Андрей Викторович Назаров ; born May 22, 1974 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and current coach. During his playing days he played in the National Hockey League for the San Jose Sharks , Tampa Bay Lightning , Calgary Flames , Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , Boston Bruins , Phoenix Coyotes and Minnesota Wild and in the Russian Super League for Dynamo Moscow , Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Awangard Omsk . Most recently he was the head coach of Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

As a player

After two seasons at Dynamo Moscow in the early 1990s, Nazarow was selected in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 in tenth place by the San Jose Sharks . For the 1993/94 season he then moved to the NHL and stayed in San Jose until March 1998.

The move to the Tampa Bay Lightning followed . The Sharks gave him and a first-round pick in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft , with which Vincent Lecavalier was later drawn, and received in return Bryan Marchment , David Shaw and also a first-round pick in the same draft. However, Nasarow stayed only ten months in Tampa, since he was given in January 1999 in exchange for Michael Nylander to the Calgary Flames . After only eight months, the third change followed within the NHL. This time he moved to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , who sent him to the Boston Bruins in November 2000 . The Bruins were his fifth team in two and a half years. The Russian didn't play long in Boston either. After 15 months, in January 2002, he moved to the Phoenix Coyotes , where he stayed until the end of the 2003/04 season .

During the lockout of the 2004/05 NHL season , Nazarow returned to his home country and ran in the Russian Super League for Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Avangard Omsk . At the beginning of 2005 he won the first ever IIHF European Champions Cup with Omsk in a convincing manner .

As a trainer

RussiaRussia  Andrei Nazarov
Andrei Nazarov
Coaching stations
2007-2010 HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2010–2012 Vityaz Chekhov
2012-2013 Severstal Cherepovets
2013-2014 HK Donbass Donetsk
National Team Ukraine
2014-2015 Barys Astana
National Team Kazakhstan
2015 SKA Saint Petersburg
2015-2016 Barys Astana
2016-2018 Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk

For the 2005/06 season Nasarow signed a contract with the Minnesota Wild in the NHL. After only two appearances in the regular season, he announced his resignation on July 14, 2006. After that he was initially manager of HK Traktor Chelyabinsk , before he was head coach of the same club between 2007 and 2010. From October 2010 to 2012 he was the head coach of Vitjas Chekhov from the Continental Hockey League before moving to Severstal Tscherepowets within the league .

From 2013 Nazarow was head coach at HK Donbass Donetsk and at the same time national coach of Ukraine . With the national team he reached fourth place in Division I A at the 2014 Men's Ice Hockey World Championship .

After HK Donbass withdrew from the KHL, Nazarow moved within the league to Barys Astana and took over the post of Kazakh national coach .

From June 2015, Nazarow was under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg , but was dismissed after a series of defeats in October of the same year.

He was then head coach of Barys Astana between October 2015 and September 2016. At the beginning of November 2016 he was introduced as the new head coach of Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk .

Achievements and Awards

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 12 571 53 71 124 1409
Playoffs 2 9 0 0 0 11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eurohockey.com, Davide Tuniz: "Nazarov to coach Kazakhstan - New Barys Astana coach was named also coach of Kazakhstan national team" , August 1, 2014
  2. ↑ Andrei Nazarov takes over the legacy of Slava Bykov at Gagarin Cup winner SKA St. Petersburg. In: eishockeynews.de. June 25, 2015, accessed June 27, 2015 .
  3. ^ Coach castling in the KHL. In: hockeyfans.ch. October 17, 2015, accessed October 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Nazarow, Andrei Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nazarow, Andrei; Nazarov, Andrei; Андрей Викторович Назаров
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR