Dimitrij Kochnev

Dimitrij Kochnev
Date of birth	July 15, 1981
place of birth	Karagandy , Kazakh SSR , USSR
size	184 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 30
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2001	Hamburg crocodiles
2001-2007	Iserlohn Roosters
2007-2008	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2008-2010	HK Spartak Moscow
2010-2011	Yaroslavl locomotive
2011–2012	Atlant Mytishchi
2012-2016	Hamburg Freezers

Dmitry Alexandrovich Kotschnew ( Russian Дмитрий Александрович Кочнев ., Scientific transliteration Dmitri Aleksandrovich Kočnev * 15. July 1981 in Karaganda , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ) is a German - Russian ice hockey player , who until May 2016 for the Hamburg Freezers in the German Ice Hockey League played .

Career

Dimitrij Kochnev began playing ice hockey at the age of seven with Awtomobilist Karaganda in his native Kazakhstan. Two years later his family moved to Germany because his mother is of German origin.

In 2001 the son of a baker moved from the Hamburg Crocodiles to the Iserlohn Roosters in the DEL , where his professional career began. Even in his first season he became number one in the Sauerland for a while . In the 2002/03 season , however, he had no chance of many missions against Jimmy Waite , so he often played under a license at EHC Straubing . 2003/04 he alternated, again with the Roosters, mostly with Mike Fountain between the posts. He hardly had an ice age in the first games and it was only when Doug Mason came to the Seilersee that Kotschnew also got a chance.

In the 2004/05 season , the fan favorite was the first goalkeeper of the Roosters, which also made the then national coach Greg Poss aware of him and called him to the national team . The season ended Kotschnew with a license to support the second division EV Duisburg , for which he was a great help in the play-offs for promotion. Also in the 2005/06 season he was a regular goalie before Leonardo Conti , but had a much more difficult position since the beginning of 2006 due to the commitment of Rich Parent . In the course of the 2006/07 season , the Roosters signed Petr Franěk again, a foreign goalkeeper, whereupon both took turns as "Starting Goalie". At the 2007 Ice Hockey World Championships he made his World Cup debut for the German team . In the first game of the tournament he was on the ice against Canada. In the second round, Kochnev was used against the Czech Republic. He succeeded in his first shut-out in the national team's jersey and thus laid the foundation for the first World Cup victory against the neighbor and vice-world champion in 21 years.

In the 2007/08 season Kochnev had a contract with the Nuremberg Ice Tigers . At the end of the main round he was the statistically best goalkeeper in the league. Travis Scott had a lower average against goals and a higher catch rate, but only played half of the season. At the ice hockey world championship in 2008 he was only the third goalkeeper behind Robert Müller and Dimitri Pätzold . Kotschnew came to a use against Canada, in which he was replaced by Müller after the first third.

For the 2008/09 season he signed a two-year contract with HK Spartak Moscow from the newly founded Continental Hockey League . Since he has both a German and a Russian passport, he is not part of the foreigner quota in the KHL. After Kotschnew had completed almost the entire preparation of the 2008/09 season as a regular goalie, he injured himself shortly before the first game of the season, so that he did not make his debut in the KHL until the beginning of December. He then showed excellent performance and led his team into the play-offs , in which they came to the quarter-finals.

He spent the 2010/11 season at Lokomotive Yaroslavl before moving to Atlant Mytishchi in 2011 . From there he moved to the Hamburg Freezers in the summer of 2012 . In May 2016, the Freezers announced that they would not be submitting a license application for the 2016/17 DEL season, so Kotschnew and all of his teammates were without a club.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 Iserlohn's Sportsman of the Year
• 2007 DEL All-Star Game
• 2008 DEL All Star Game
• 2008 DEL best goalkeeper
• 2009 KHL goalkeeper of the month February

Career statistics

				Main round										Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	Min	SO	GT	GTS	Svs	SV%	A.	SM		Sp	Min	SO	GT	GTS	Svs	SV%	A.	SM
2000/01	Crocodiles Hamburg	OIL		32	1876		104	3.33			1	2
2001/02	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		29	1595	0	80	3.01	731	90.14	1	10		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		5	18th	0	1	3.34	4th	80.00	0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Straubing Tigers	2nd BL		26th	1452	2	58	2.40			0	0		2	120	0	8th	4th			0	0
2003/04	Foxes Duisburg	2nd BL		15th	908	1	41	2.71			0	2		3	190	0	6th	1.89			0	0
2003/04	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		20th	1154	0	55	2.86	559	91.04	0	2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		43	2479	2	114	2.76	1107	90.70	0	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Foxes Duisburg	2nd BL		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		11	685	1	26th	2.28			1	0
2005/06	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		36	2030	1	103	3.04	1036	90.96	0	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		48	2757	2	132	2.87	1335	91.00	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		43	2578	3	101	2.35	1171	92.10	1	2		5	279	0	15th	3.23	114	88.37	0	2
2008/09	HK Spartak Moscow	KHL		15th	910	2	31	2.04	368	92.20	0	0		6th	363	0	17th	2.80	186	91.60	0	0

( 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

• Dimitrij Kotschnew at hockeydb.com (English)
• Dimitrij Kochnev at eurohockey.com
• Dimitrij Kochnev at hockeygoalies.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ice hockey: out for Hamburg Freezers . In: The time . May 25, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed June 3, 2016]).