Anton Kazantsev

Anton Kazantsev
Date of birth	August 26, 1986
place of birth	Rudny , Kazakh SSR
size	189 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2007	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2007-2011	Barys Astana
2011–2012	HK Sokol Krasnoyarsk
2012	HK Astana
2012-2015	Yermak Angarsk
2015	HK Almaty
since 2015	HK Arlan Kökschetau

Anton Olegowitsch Kazanzew ( Russian Антон Олегович Казанцев ; born August 26, 1986 in Rudny , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Arlan Kökschetau in the Kazakh ice hockey championship since 2015 .

Career

Anton Kazantsev began his career as a hockey player in the youth division of the HK Sibir Novosibirsk , for whose second team he was active from 2003 to 2007 in the Pervaya League , the third Russian division. Then the defender moved to Barys Astana in the second-class Wysschaja Liga . After the club had been included in the newly founded Continental Hockey League before the 2008/09 season , he completed a total of eleven KHL games, in which he received 62 penalty minutes. At the same time, he was in eight games for HK Sary-Arka Karaganda from Kazakhstan in the Wysschaja Liga, the second Russian division, on the ice. In the following two seasons he came to other missions in the KHL, but played from 2010 mainly for the second team Astana in the Kazakh championship .

For the 2011/12 season Kazantsev was committed by HK Sokol Krasnoyarsk from the Wysschaja Hockey League , the second Russian division, which he left after just under a year to spend the last season game at HK Astana from the Kazakh championship. He then moved back to the Wysschaja Hockey League and played for almost three years at Yermak Angarsk . In early 2015 he moved to HK Almaty in the Kazakh league, where he ended the season. Since 2015 he has been playing for league rivals HK Arlan Kökschetau , with whom he celebrated his first Kazakh championship in 2018 .

International

For Kazakhstan Kazanzew took part in the World Championships 2010 and 2014 in the top division, in which he came to a total of eight missions. At the Winter Asian Games 2017 , he and his team won the title ahead of South Korea .

Achievements and Awards

• 2017 gold medal at the Asian Winter Games
• 2018 Kazakh champion with the HK Arlan Kökschetau
• 2019 winning the IIHF Continental Cup with HK Arlan Kökschetau

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	32	0	0	0	93
Playoffs	1	1	0	0	0	0

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Anton Kasanzew at hockeydb.com (English)
• Anton Kasanzew at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Anton Kazantsev at eurohockey.com