Denis Alexandrovich Schwidki
 Denis Schwidki 
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| Date of birth | November 21, 1980 |
| place of birth | Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR |
| size | 184 cm |
| Weight | 85 kg |
| position | Right wing |
| number | # 35 |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Draft | |
| NHL Entry Draft |
1999 , 1st round, 12th position Florida Panthers |
| Career stations | |
| until 1998 | Yaroslavl torpedo |
| 1998-2000 | Barrie Colts |
| 2000-2004 | Florida panthers |
| 2004-2005 | Yaroslavl locomotive |
| 2005-2006 | HK Sibir Novosibirsk |
| 2006-2007 | Amur Khabarovsk |
| 2007-2009 | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| 2009 | Kärpät Oulu |
| 2010 | HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk |
| 2010–2012 | Krefeld penguins |
| 2012-2013 | Hanover Scorpions |
| 2013 | Titan Clin |
| 2013-2014 | HSC Csíkszereda |
Denis Shvidki ( Russian Денис Александрович Швидкий , Ukrainian Денис Олександрович Швидкий / Denys Olexandrowytsch Schwydkyj * 21st November 1980 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Russian - Ukrainian hockey player , who throughout his career including for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League , the Utah Grizzlies and San Antonio Rampage in the American Hockey League and for the Krefeld Pinguine and Hanover Scorpions in the German Ice Hockey League .
Career
Denis Schwidki started his career as a hockey player with Torpedo Yaroslavl , with whom he won the Russian championship straight away in his rookie year in the 1996/97 season . In his two seasons for Torpedo in the Russian Super League , the attacker scored four goals in a total of 32 games and prepared another three.
He then moved to the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , in which he was active for the Barrie Colts until 2000 . During this period he was selected in the first round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft as the twelfth player in total by the Florida Panthers and won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as a champion of the OHL with his team in the 1999/2000 season . For the Panthers, the native of Ukraine then completed a total of 76 games in the National Hockey League in four years , in which he scored 25 points scorer. However, he spent most of his time in the US franchise with their farm teams from the American Hockey League , the Utah Grizzlies and San Antonio Rampage .
In the summer of 2004 Schwidki returned to Yaroslavl, where he competed in the Super League for the team that has now been renamed Lokomotive. He played for the team for a year as well as for their league rivals HK Sibir Novosibirsk and Amur Khabarovsk . From 2007 to 2009, the former junior international was under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg , for which he competed in the newly founded Continental Hockey League in the 2008/09 season . For the 2009/10 season Schwidki signed a trial contract with Kärpät Oulu from the Finnish SM-liiga , which was not extended after the end of November.
2010 Schwidki was committed by HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk from the second Russian division, the Wysschaja Liga , with which he won the league championship. HK Ugra was accepted into the KHL in early summer 2010, but Schwidki did not receive a new contract. After that he was initially without a club before he completed a trial training with the Krefeld penguins in autumn 2010 . At the end of November 2010 he was then signed by the management of the penguins. For the 2012/13 season he moved to league rivals Hannover Scorpions . Due to various injuries, he was only able to play 21 games for Lower Saxony, in which he scored four points. After a year in Hanover, the striker joined the Heilbronner Falken in the 2013/14 season . Due to DEL2 regulations regarding Russian players, however, he was not allowed to play and spent his last season at Titan Klin and the HSC Csíkszereda .
International
For Russia , Schwidki took part in the U20 Junior World Championships in 1999 and 2000 .
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 1998 All-Star-Team of the U18 European Junior Championship
- 1999 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
- 2000 silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
statistics
| Seasons | Games | Gates | Assists | Points | Penalty minutes | |
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| NHL Regular Season | 4th | 76 | 11 | 14th | 25th | 30th |
| NHL playoffs | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| KHL main round | 1 | 37 | 3 | 5 | 8th | 22nd |
| KHL playoffs | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| DEL main round | 3 | 102 | 7th | 18th | 25th | 54 |
| DEL playoffs | 1 | 8th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
(Status: end of the 2012/13 season)
Web links
- Denis Schwidki at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Denis Schwidki at eurohockey.com
- Denis Schwidki at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The roster of falcons continues to grow. In: heilbronner-falken.de. May 21, 2013, accessed May 21, 2013 .
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| SURNAME | Schwidki, Denis Alexandrowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwydkyj, Denys Olexandrowytsch (Ukrainian transcription); Shvidki, Denis; Shvidky, Denis (English spellings); Швидкий, Денис Олександрович (Ukrainian spelling); Швидкий, Денис Александрович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Ukrainian ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR |