Denys Petruchno

Denys Petruchno
Date of birth	September 18, 1989
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
size	190 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 5th round, 110th position Budiwelnik Kiev
Career stations
2004-2008	Capital District Selects
2008-2010	Springfield Jr. Blues
2010-2011	various
2011–2012	HK Kharkivsky Akuly
2012-2013	HK Berkut
2013-2014	HK Donbass Donetsk
2014-2015	HK Arlan Kökschetau
2015	Metallurgist Schlobin
2015-2017	HK Donbass Donetsk
since 2017	Metallurg Novokuznetsk

Denys Olexandrowytsch Petruchno ( Ukrainian Денис Олександрович Петрухно ; English transcription Denis Petrukhno ; born September 18, 1989 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Metallurg Novokuznetskaya since 2017 in the hockey league .

Career

Denys Petruchno started his career as a hockey player in the youth department of HK Sokol Kiev . At the age of 15 he went to North America in 2004 and initially played for four years with the Capital District Selects in the Eastern Junior Hockey League . He then stood for two years for the Springfield Jr. Blues in the North American Hockey League on the ice. In the KHL Junior Draft 2010 he was drafted in the fifth round of Budiwelnik Kiev , which did not start playing. In the following season he therefore played individual games for the Laredo Bucks , the Knoxville Ice Bears , the Rome Frenzy and the Chi-Town Shooters . He then returned to Ukraine and played with HK Kharkivsky Akuly in the newly founded Professional Hockey League . In the 2012/13 season he won the main round of the professional hockey league with the HK Berkut , to which he had since switched, but his team was not admitted to the playoffs due to financial difficulties. From 2013 he was a member of the HK Donbass Donetsk squad in the Continental Hockey League , but was only used in the IIHF Continental Cup at Donbass. After playing in Donetsk was no longer possible due to the war in eastern Ukraine , he spent the 2014/15 season with the Kazakhs from HK Arlan Kökschetau and the Belarusians from Metallurg Schlobin . Since 2015 he has been playing again for Donbass Donetsk in the Ukrainian league and was able to win the Ukrainian title there in 2016 , to which he made a significant contribution as the best defender in the league. In 2017 he was able to defend the title with Donbass. He then moved to Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the Russian Vysschaya Hockey League .

International

In the junior division Petruchno was initially on the ice for his home country at the U18 World Championships in 2006 and 2007 in Division I. He also took part in Division II with Ukraine at the U20 Junior World Championship in 2009 .

For the Ukrainian national ice hockey team for men, Petruchno took part in the World Championships of Division I in 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Cup Division I, Group B
• 2016 Ukrainian champion with HK Donbass Donetsk
• 2016 Best Defender of the Ukrainian Ice Hockey League
• In 2016 promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2017 Ukrainian champion with the HK Donbass Donetsk

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
PHL main round	3	60	8th	13	21st	40

(As of the end of the 2013/14 season)

Web links

• Denys Petruchno at eliteprospects.com (English)