Andrei Viktorovich Saposhnikov

Andrei Saposhnikov
Date of birth	15th June 1971
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
size	188 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1993 , 5th lap, 129th position Boston Bruins
Career stations
1990-1995	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
1995	Providence Bruins
1995-1996	SHC Fassa
1996-1997	Wedemark Scorpions
1997	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
1997-1998	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
1998-2000	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2000-2004	Severstal Cherepovets
2004-2005	Chimik Voskressensk HK Metschel Chelyabinsk
2005-2006	HK Awangard Omsk
2006-2007	Vityaz Chekhov

Andrei Viktorovich Sapozhnikov ( Russian Андрей Викторович Сапожников * 15. June 1971 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player , who in his active period from 1990 to 2007 included for the Wedemark Scorpions in the German Ice Hockey League has played and Russian Master with the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk became. He has been an assistant trainer at HK Witjas since 2014 .

Career

Andrei Saposhnikov began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown with HK tractor Chelyabinsk , for which he was active from 1990 to 1995 in the highest Soviet and Russian leagues. During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1993 in the fifth round as a total of 129th player by the Boston Bruins , for which he never played. Instead, he ended the 1994/95 season with their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Providence Bruins . The defender then spent a season at SHC Fassa from the Italian Serie A before moving to the Wedemark Scorpions from the German Ice Hockey League for the 1996/97 season. Shortly before the end of the season, however, he returned to the Russian Super League , where he received a contract with HC Metallurg Magnitogorsk .

Saposhnikov spent the 1997/98 season at his home club HK Traktor Chelyabinsk before moving to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk for another two years. With Metallurg he won the Russian championship for the first and only time in his career in the 1998/99 season , as well as the European Hockey League at European level in 1999 and 2000 . From 2000 to 2004, the 1993 world champion was on the ice for Severstal Tscherepowez , with whom he failed in the playoff final against Lokomotive Yaroslavl in the 2002/03 season . After he had spent the 2004/05 season at Chimik Woskressensk in the Superliga and HK Metschel Tscheljabinsk in the second-rate Wysschaja Liga , the left-handed shooter was each under contract for a year at HK Avangard Omsk and Vityas Chekhov from the Superliga. With Omsk he was runner-up again in the 2005/06 season. He finally ended his career in 2007 at the age of 36.

International

For Russia , Saposhnikov took part in the 1993 World Cup, where he became world champion with his team.

Achievements and Awards

1993 gold medal at the world championship 1993 Honored Master of Sports of Russia 1994 IHL All-Star Team 1999 Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk

1999 European Hockey League win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk 2000 European Hockey League win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk 2003 Russian runner-up with Severstal Tscherepowez 2006 Russian runner-up with the HK Awangard Omsk

DEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	1	35	3	3	6th	24
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Andrei Saposchnikow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Andrei Wiktorowitsch Saposhnikov at eurohockey.com