Denis Valeryevich Franskewitsch

Denis Franskewitsch
Date of birth	June 6, 1981
place of birth	Karagandy , Kazakh SSR
size	177 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	#1
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
until 2002	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2002-2003	Neftyanik Leninogorsk
2003-2004	Gazovik Tyumen
2004-2005	Neftyanik Leninogorsk
2005-2007	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2007-2008	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2008-2009	Barys Astana
2009-2011	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2011–2012	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2012-2013	HK Sary-Arka Karaganda
2013-2015	Ruby Tyumen
2015-2016	Yermak Angarsk
since 2016	Ruby Tyumen

Denis Valeryevich Franskewitsch ( Russian Денис Валерьевич Франскевич * 6. June 1981 in Karaganda , Kazakh SSR ) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender who since July 2016 re-ei Rubin Tyumen in the Supreme Hockey League is under contract.

Career

Denis Franskewitsch began playing ice hockey at the Junost ice hockey school in his native Karaganda. Later he moved to the ice hockey school Neftechimik in Nizhnekamsk and was used from 1998 in the second team of Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk in the Pervaya League . From 2000 he was back-up of Ildar Muchometow in the first men's team of the club, which participated in the super league. In the 2001/02 season he made his debut in the Super League. After his third game, against Amur Khabarovsk , the performances shown were considered insufficient and Franskewitsch was sent to the second division, the Vysschaya League , to Neftyanik Leninogorsk . For Neftjanik he completed a total of 60 missions by the end of the 2002/03 season.

At the beginning of the 2003/04 season he returned to Neftechimik and was used in a Superliga game before he was again sent to the Wysschaja Liga, this time to Gasowik Tyumen . The 2004/05 season he spent again at Neftjanik Leninogorsk and reached the playoffs with the team. Franskewitsch showed very good performances in the main round with an average of 1.78. Therefore, he was brought back to the super league by Neftechimik in 2005, but got stiff competition from Finnish goalkeeper Petri Vehanen in 2006 . After only six missions in the 2006/07 season, he received no new contract with Neftechimik and returned to the second division. In the following season he was under contract with Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg . After the end of the season, Awtomobilist should first be included in the newly founded Continental Hockey League , but the funding did not materialize. Therefore, Denis Franskewitsch moved to Barys Astana from Kazakhstan , which was accepted into the KHL. At Barys Astana he had strong competition with Marc Lamothe and Alexei Kuznetsov and only made 17 appearances in the KHL.

After Awtomobilist was accepted into the KHL in 2009, Franskewitsch decided to return to Yekaterinburg. There he shared the goalkeeping position with Iwan Lissutin and made 51 appearances in the KHL in two seasons. In June 2011 he received another contract with Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk, where he was scheduled as a back-up for Tuomas Tarkki and completed 21 KHL games.

Career statistics

				Regular season								Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	Min	S.	N	SO	GTS	Sv%		Sp	Min	S.	N	SO	GTS	Sv%
2008/09	Barys Astana	KHL		17th	868	6th	6th	0	3.04	88.6		-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg	KHL		29	1524	7th	14th	0	2.84	90.3		1	35	0	0	0	6.86	77.8
2010/11	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg	KHL		21st	890	4th	6th	0	3.64	86.8		-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL		21st	931	4th	9	0	3.16	89.8		-	-	-	-	-	-	-

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

• Denis Franskewitsch at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Denis Franskewitsch at eurohockey.com