Anton Sergejewitsch Below

Anton Below
Date of birth	July 26, 1986
place of birth	Ryazan , Russian SFSR
size	193 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2003-2008	HK CSKA Moscow
2008-2013	HK Awangard Omsk
2013-2014	Edmonton Oilers
since 2014	SKA Saint Petersburg

Anton Sergejewitsch Below ( Russian Антон Сергеевич Белов ; English transcription: Anton Sergeyevich Belov ; born July 26, 1986 in Ryazan , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player . Since April 2014 he has been under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Anton Below began his career as a hockey player at HK CSKA Moscow , for whose second team he was active for the first time in the 2003/04 season in the third-class Pervaya League . During the same season he made his professional ice hockey debut when he played six games for HK Metschel Chelyabinsk in the Vysschaya League , the second Russian division. From 2004 to 2008 the defender was part of CSKA Moscow's regular squad in the Super League . In the summer of 2008, the Russian international moved to HK Awangard Omsk from the newly established Continental Hockey League , for which he played in the following five seasons. For the 2013/14 season Below signed a one-year entry contract with the Edmonton Oilers from the National Hockey League .

After this season, Below did not renew this contract and returned to his home country, where he signed a four-year contract with SKA Saint Petersburg .

International

For Russia , Below took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in 2003 and 2004 , and the 2005 U20 World Junior Championship .

In the senior sector he was in his country's squad for the Euro Hockey Tour in 2007 and 2008 . He completed his first men's world championship in 2013 and was nominated for the Olympic squad for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in winter 2012/14 . He also took part in the 2014 World Cup, where he won the gold medal and was elected to the All-Star team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 KHL Defender of the Month for October
• 2014 World Championship All-Star Team
• 2014 KHL Defender of the Month for September
• 2015 Gagarin Cup win with SKA Saint Petersburg
• 2016 KHL Defender of the Month for February
• 2017 Gagarin Cup and Russian champion with SKA Saint Petersburg

International

• 2003 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2004 gold medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2005 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2014 gold medal at the world championship
• 2015 silver medal at the world championship
• 2016 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2017 bronze medal at the world championship

statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	1	57	1	6th	7th	34
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
KHL main round	10	430	38	94	132	251
KHL playoffs	9	120	10	30th	40	72
Super League main round	4th	152	5	11	16	160
Super League Playoffs	3	19th	2	5	7th	24

Web links

Commons : Anton Below  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anton Below at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ oilers.nhl.com: "BLOG: SKA reaches agreement with Anton Belov" (English, April 16, 2014, accessed on May 5, 2014)