Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili

Georgi Gelashvili
Date of birth	August 30, 1983
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
size	189 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 20
Career stations
2000-2002	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2003-2006	Kasachmys Karaganda
2006-2008	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2008	HK Metschel Chelyabinsk
2008-2010	Yaroslavl locomotive
2010-2013	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2013-2014	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2014-2016	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2016-2018	HK Saryarka Karaganda
2018-2019	HK Irtysh Pavlodar

Georgi Kakojewitsch Gelaschwili ( Russian Георгий Какоевич Гелашвили ; born August 30, 1983 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey goalkeeper .

Career

Georgi Gelashvili began his career in 1999 with the second team of the HK tractor Chelyabinsk in the third Russian division . After another stint in the lower Russian leagues at Kasachmys Satpajew , he returned to Chelyabinsk in 2006. Gelashvili has been under contract with his next club, Lokomotive Yaroslavl , since 2008. In 2010 he moved to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk within the KHL . At Metallurg he was a regular goalkeeper between 2010 and 2012, but lost this status to Ari Ahonen during the 2012/13 season . Therefore, his contract was not renewed in May 2013 and Gelashvili moved to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod within the KHL . There he lost his regular place first to Wital Kowal and after his departure to Iwan Kassutin .

In December 2014 he and Pawel Walentenko were exchanged for Mikhail Birjukow and Alexei Pepeljajew from HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 KHL goalkeeper of the month March
• 2009 best goalkeeper in the KHL
• 2009 KHL All-Star Team
• 2009 KHL goalkeeper of the month November
• 2010 KHL All-Star Game

Web links

Commons : Georgi Gelashvili  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Georgi Gelaschwili at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hctorpedo.ru, Двойной обмен с "Югрой" , December 11, 2014, accessed December 15, 2014