Ihor Karpenko

Ihor Karpenko
Date of birth	July 23, 1976
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
size	172 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1995 , 8th round, 185th position Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Career stations
1993-1996	HK Sokil Kiev
1996-1998	Port Huron Border Cats
1998-1999	Saint John Flames
1999-2004	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2004-2005	HK MWD Tver
2005-2006	HK Sokil Kiev
2006-2007	HK Dinamo Minsk
2007-2011	HK Sokil Kiev
2011	HK Berkut
2012	HK Sokil Kiev
2013	HK Bilyj Bars Bila Tserkwa

Ihor Wassyljowytsch Karpenko ( Ukrainian Ігор Васильович Карпенко , Russian Игорь Васильевич Карпенко / Igor Wassiljewitsch Karpenko; born July 23, 1976 in Kiev , Ukraine , the Ukrainian national ice hockey champion , the Ukrainian national ice hockey champion, the Ukraine, the Ukrainian national champion, was a Ukrainian ice hockey champion. He currently works as a goalkeeping coach.

Career

Ihor Karpenko began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at HK Sokil Kiev , for whose professional team he was active in the Russian Super League from 1993 to 1996 . During this period, the goalkeeper was selected in the eighth round of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft as a total of 185 players by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , for which he never played. Instead, he was under contract from 1996 to 1999 in various minor league teams in North America . There he played for the Las Vegas Thunder from the International Hockey League , the Port Huron Border Cats from the United Hockey League , the Saint John Flames from the American Hockey League and the Johnstown Chiefs from the East Coast Hockey League .

In the summer of 1999 Karpenko was signed by HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , with whom he won the European Hockey League in the 1999/2000 season and with which he became Russian champion a year later . At the Spengler Cup in 1999 , he and Metallurg took second place behind the Kölner Haien and was appointed to the All-Star Team. In the 2003/04 season, the Ukrainian international failed with Metallurg only in the playoff final at HK Awangard Omsk . For the 2004/05 season he moved to HK MWD Tver from the Wysschaja Liga , with whom he immediately achieved promotion to the Superliga as the second division champion. He himself played in the following season for his home club HK Sokil Kiev in parallel in the Ukrainian ice hockey league , as well as the Belarusian extra league, where he won the Ukrainian championship with the capital city.

For the 2006/07 season Karpenko stayed in the Belarusian extra league, in which he stood between the posts for HK Dinamo Minsk . With this he won the national championship , where he himself was used a total of 17 times. From 2007 to 2011, the 2002 Olympian played again for HK Sokil Kiev, but this time in the Wysschaja Liga, the second Russian division. For the 2011/12 season he joined the HK Berkut from the Ukrainian ice hockey league . After only a few months he switched back to Sokil, where he also began the 2012/13 season, during which he moved to HK Bilyj Bars Bila Zerkwa , where he ended his career in 2013.

International

For Ukraine, Karpenko took part in the junior division at the U18 Junior C European Championship in 1993 and the U20 Junior World Championships in 1995 and 1996 .

In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 1995 C-World Championships and the Division I World Championships in 2008 , when he had the lowest goals against goals and, after the Hungarian Levente Szuper , the second-best catch quota of the tournament, in 2009 and 2012 . He was also part of the Ukraine squad at the World Championships in the top division in 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2006 and 2007 as well as the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the qualifying tournaments for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi .

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, Karpenko became a goalkeeping coach. After three years in the junior league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga at MHK Dynamo , he now trains the goalkeepers of Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the Vysschaja Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

• 1995 All-Star-Team at the Junior World Championship
• 1999 All-Star-Team at the Spengler Cup
• 2000 European Hockey League win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2001 Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2004 Russian runner-up with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2005 Champion of the Wysschaja League and promotion to the Super League with HK MWD Tver
• 2006 Ukrainian champion with HK Sokil Kiev
• 2007 Belarusian champion with the HK Dinamo Minsk
• 2008 Best catch quota at the World Cup in Division I, Group B

Web links

• Ihor Karpenko at hockeydb.com (English)
• Ihor Karpenko at eurohockey.com
• Ihor Karpenko at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Ihor Karpenko at hockeygoalies.org