Igor Sergeevich Bobkov

Igor Bobkov
Date of birth	2nd January 1991
place of birth	Surgut , Russian SFSR
size	196 cm
Weight	109 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 3rd round, 76th position Anaheim Ducks
Career stations
until 2010	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2010-2011	London Knights
2011–2012	Kingston Frontenacs
2012-2015	Norfolk Admirals
2013-2015	Utah grizzlies
2015-2018	Admiral Vladivostok
since 2018	HK Awangard Omsk

Igor Sergeyevich Bobkow ( Russian Игорь Сергеевич Бобков ; English transcription: Igor Sergeyevich Bobkov ; born January 2, 1991 in Surgut , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with HK Awangard Omsk in the Continental Hockey League since May 2018 .

Career

Igor Bobkow began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , for whose second team he was active in the third-rate Pervaya League in the 2008/09 season . The goalkeeper was then selected in the third round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft as the 76th player in total by the Anaheim Ducks . Initially, however, he stayed in Magnitogorsk and in 2010 won the Kharlamov Cup with Metallurg's junior team Stalnye Lissy Magnitogorsk , the championship title of the newly founded multinational youth league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga .

In the summer of 2010 Bobkow went to the London Knights , for which he was then 24 times in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League between the posts. He also came to two appearances for Anaheim's farm team , the Syracuse Crunch , in the American Hockey League during the 2010/11 season . During the same season, in October 2010, the Russian signed a three-year entry - level contract with the Anaheim Ducks. For the 2011/12 season he moved to the Kingston Frontenacs within the OHL .

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season , Bobkow was transferred from the NHL squad to the Utah Grizzlies in the ECHL and subsequently continued to switch between ECHL and AHL. After three years without a service for the Ducks in the NHL Bobkow left North America and returned to his homeland, where he joined Admiral Vladivostok from the Continental Hockey League . There he showed some very good performances in the following years, so that in May 2018 he initially received a contract extension for two years. A few hours later, this contract was taken over by HK Awangard Omsk against payment of compensation.

International

For Russia , Bobkow took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in 2009 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 2010 and 2011 . At the U18 World Cup in 2009, he and his team won the silver medal. He himself was voted the tournament's best goalkeeper and one of the top three players on his team. At the U20 World Cup in 2011, he won the world title with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 Kharlamov Cup win with Stalnyje Lissy Magnitogorsk

International

• 2009 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2009 Best goalkeeper in the U18 World Junior Championship
• 2009 Top 3 players in Russia at the U18 World Junior Championship
• 2011 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

Web links

• Igor Bobkow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ducks.nhl.com: "Ducks Announce Roster Moves" (English, September 30, 2013, accessed October 12, 2013)
2. ↑ "Авангард" выкупил у "Адмирала" права на Бобкова. In: news.sportbox.ru. May 16, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018 (Russian).