Artyom Andreyevich Chubarov

Artyom Chubarov
Date of birth	December 13, 1979
place of birth	Gorky , Russian SFSR
size	185 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1998 , 2nd round, 31st position Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
until 1997	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
1997-1999	HK Dynamo Moscow
1999-2004	Vancouver Canucks
2004-2005	HK Dynamo Moscow
2005-2008	HK Awangard Omsk
2008-2009	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2010	HK Dynamo Moscow

Artyom Andreevich Tschubarow ( Russian Артём Андреевич Чубаров ; born December 13, 1979 in Gorky , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player . He has been an assistant trainer at Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod since 2014 .

Career

Artyom Chubarow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth field of Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod , for whose professional team he made his debut in the second-rate Vysschaya League in the 1996/97 season . As a second division champion, the attacker rose to the super league with Novgorod this season . However, he himself moved to HK Dynamo Moscow , with whom he finished second in the European Hockey League in 1998 and 1999 . He failed with his team at the VEU Feldkirch from Austria and the league rivals HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk . At Metallurg he failed with Dynamo in the 1998/99 season in the playoff final for the Russian championship.

Michael Peca (left) and Artyom Tschubarow in the face-off (2002/03 season)

During his time at Dynamo Moscow, the left-shooter was selected in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in the second round as a total of 31st player by the Vancouver Canucks . For the Canadians he played regularly in the National Hockey League from 1999 to 2004 , but at the beginning he was also used for their farm teams Syracuse Crunch and Manitoba Moose in the American Hockey League and the Kansas City Blades in the International Hockey League .

For the 2004/05 season, Chubarov returned to the Russian Super League, where he received a contract with his ex-club HK Dynamo Moscow. With the capital city he became Russian champions for the first time this season . Following this success, the former international signed with HK Awangard Omsk , with whom he became runner-up in 2006. At European level, he and Awangard finished second in the IIHF Continental Cup in the 2006/07 season behind HK Junost Minsk from Belarus . For the 2008/09 season he moved to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, where he had started his professional career twelve years earlier. For Torpedo he scored a total of four goals in 43 games in the newly formed Continental Hockey League and prepared another 17. At the end of the season, however, his contract was not extended. In February 2010 he was signed for the third time by Dynamo Moscow. By the end of the season he played two games before ending his career.

International

For Russia , Chubarov took part in the Junior World Championships in 1998 and 1999 and the World Cup of Hockey in 2004 .

Achievements and Awards

• 1997 Champion of the Vysschaya League and promotion to the Super League with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
• 1998 second place in the European Hockey League with HK Dynamo Moscow
• 1999 Second place in the European Hockey League with HK Dynamo Moscow
• 1999 Russian runner-up with HK Dynamo Moscow
• 2005 Russian champion with HK Dynamo Moscow
• 2006 Russian runner-up with the HK Awangard Omsk
• 2007 Second place at the IIHF Continental Cup with the HK Awangard Omsk
• 2007 Best striker of the IIHF Continental Cup

International

• 1998 silver medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1999 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	5	228	25th	33	58	40
NHL playoffs	3	27	0	4th	4th	4th
KHL main round	2	42	4th	17th	21st	2
KHL playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	2

Web links

• Artyom Tschubarow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Artjom Tschubarow at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Artjom Tschubarow at eliteprospects.com (English)