Dmitri Grenz

Dmitri Grenz
Date of birth	June 10, 1996
place of birth	Öskemen , Kazakhstan
size	185 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft	2013 , 3rd round, 92nd position Barys Astana
Career stations
2012-2014	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
since 2014	Barys Astana / Nur-Sultan
2017-2018	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk

Dmitri Igorewitsch Grenz ( Kazakh Дмитрий Игоревич Гренц ; born May 12, 1986 in Öskemen ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who has been under contract with Barys Astana / Nur-Sultan in the Continental Hockey League since 2014 .

Career

Dmitri Grenz began his career as an ice hockey player with Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk , for whose second team he made his debut in the Kazakh ice hockey championship in the 2013/14 season . He had previously been selected by the Kazakh KHL club Barys Astana in the third round of the KHL Junior Draft 2013 as the 92nd player. In 2014 he moved to Barys, but was initially mainly used by Nomad Astana, the club's second team from the Kazakh championship, and by Snezhnye Barsy Astana, the junior team from the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaya League . He played his first KHL games in the 2015/16 season. In 2017 he became Kazakh champion with Nomad Astana . In the 2017/18 season, in addition to his appearances for Barys Astana, he also played in the first team of Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk in the Vysschaja Hockey League .

International

For Kazakhstan, Grenz initially took part in Division I of the U18 Junior World Championships in 2013 and 2014 in the junior division. With the Kazakh U20 team , he played in Division I at the U20 Junior World Championships in 2014 , 2015 and 2016 , when he was third-best scorer behind Austrian Dominic Zwerger, together with his countryman Älichan Ässetow , Austrian Florian Baltram and Norwegian Anders Gulliksen and the Kazakhs Vladimir Volkov and, together with Zwerger, became the third-best preparer behind Volkov and Gulliksen. With the Kazakh student selection , he took part in the 2017 Winter Universiade in his own country and reached the final, which was lost to the Russian students.

In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad in the top division at the 2016 World Cup and in Division I at the 2018 World Cup . In addition, he ran for Kazakhstan in the Olympic qualification for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang and the 2017 Winter Asian Games in Japanese Sapporo , which he was able to win with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the U18 World Championship of Division I, Group B.
• 2015 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the U20 World Cup, Division I, Group B
• 2017 gold medal at the Asian Winter Games
• 2017 silver medal at the Winter Universiade
• 2017 Kazakh champion with Nomad Astana

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	4th	88	3	5	8th	10
Playoffs	1	3	0	1	1	4th

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

• Dmitri Grenz at hockeydb.com (English)
• Dmitri Grenz at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Dmitri Grenz at eurohockey.com