Grigori Mirgarifanowitsch Schafigulin

Grigori Schafigulin
Date of birth	January 13, 1985
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
size	188 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
number	# 51
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 3rd round, 98th position Nashville Predators
Career stations
until 2007	Yaroslavl locomotive
2007-2009	Ak Bars Kazan
2009	Vityaz Chekhov
2009-2010	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2010-2014	HK Dynamo Moscow
2014-2015	Amur Khabarovsk
2015-2016	HK Spartak Moscow

Grigori Mirgarifanowitsch Schafigulin ( Russian Григорий Миргарифанович Шафигулин ; born January 13, 1985 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with HK Spartak Moscow from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Grigori Schafigulin began his career as a hockey player in the youth of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl , for whose professional team he played in the 2002/03 season in the super league. In the 2003 NHL Entry Draft he was selected by the Nashville Predators in the third round in 98th place, for which he never ran. In the summer of 2007 he was signed by Ak Bars Kazan . During the 2008/09 season he moved to league rivals Vitjas Chekhov . In 2009 he went to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod .

Between 2010 and 2014 Schafigulin was under contract with HK Dynamo Moscow and OHK Dynamo , with whom he won the Gagarin Cup in 2012 and 2013 . During the 2013-14 season he suffered from traumatic brain injury, so that he missed much of the season. From May 2014 he was under contract with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , but remained in nine KHL games without a scorer point and was handed over to Amur Khabarovsk in November 2014 .

Schafigulin has been under contract with HK Spartak Moscow since July 2015 and has scored four assists in 33 games for Spartak. In the summer of 2016 he completed a try-out at Dynamo Moscow, but received no contract.

International

For Russia , Schafigulin took part in the U18 Junior World Championship 2003 , as well as the U20 Junior World Championship 2004 and U20 Junior World Championship in 2005 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2005 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2008 IIHF Continental Cup -Win with Ak Bars Kazan
• 2012 Gagarin Cup win with the OHK Dynamo
• 2013 Gagarin Cup win with HK Dynamo Moscow

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	102	13	26th	39	102
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Grigori Schafigulin at eurohockey.com
• Grigori Schafigulin at eliteprospects.com (English)