Georgi Petrov (ice hockey player)

Georgi Petrov
Date of birth	19th August 1988
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size	198 cm
Weight	105 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2004-2007	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
2007-2008	Barys Astana
2008-2011	Kaszink torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
2012	Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees
2012	HK Ryazan
2013	HK Almaty
2013-2015	Kaszink torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
2015-2016	HK Arlan Kökschetau

Georgi Jurjewitsch Petrow ( Kazakh Георгий Юрьевич Петров ; born August 19, 1988 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a former Kazakh ice hockey player who last played until 2016 with HK Arlan Kökschetau in the Kazakh championship .

Career

Georgi Petrov began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk , for whose second men's team he played in the third-rate Russian Pervaya League since 2004 . After he had played the 2007/08 season at Barys Astana in both there and in the second-rate Wysschaja Liga , he returned to Torpedo. At the turn of 2011/12 he moved to the United States, where he was on the ice for the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees in the Central Hockey League . After the Texans stopped playing at the end of the season, he moved to the Russian HK Ryazan in the Wysschaja Hockey League . But even there he only stayed a half series, since he returned to Kazakhstan at the next turn of the year and joined the HK Almaty . In 2013 he returned to his home club Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk, for which he played two years in the Vysschaya Hockey League. In the 2015/16 season he was under contract with HK Arlan Kökschetau in the Kazakh championship . After he came to only six missions there, he ended his career.

International

In the junior division, Petrov played for Kazakhstan at the U18 World Championships in 2005 and 2006 and at the U20 World Cup in 2007 in Division I. In addition, he played at the Winter Universiade 2013 in Trentino , where he finished behind the Russian team with the Kazakh students second place.

For the Kazakh national ice hockey team , he took part in the World Cup in Division I in 2009 and the Top Division in 2010 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 Promotion to the top division at the U18 World Cup in Division I, Group B
• 2009 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2013 silver medal at the 2013 Winter Universiade

Web links

• Georgi Petrow at eliteprospects.com (English)