Ihar Schwedau

Ihar Schwedau
Date of birth	March 6, 1987
place of birth	Navapolatsk , Belarusian SSR
size	187 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2008	Chimik-SKA Navapolatsk
2008	HK Dinamo Minsk
2008-2009	HK Keramin Minsk
since 2009	HK Shakhtsor Salihorsk

Ihar Iossifawitsch Schwedau ( Belarusian Ігар Іосіфавіч Шведаў , Russian Игорь Иосифович Шведов / Igor Iosifovich Shvedov * 6. March 1987 in Navapolatsk , Byelorussian SSR ) is a Belarusian ice hockey player who since 2009 when HC SHAKHTYOR SOLIGORSK in the Belarusian Extraliga is under contract.

Career

Ihar Schwedau began his career as a hockey player in his hometown with Chimik-SKA Nawapolazk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Belarusian extra league in the 2005/06 season . After two more years with Chimik, the defender was signed by HK Dinamo Minsk from the newly founded Continental Hockey League in summer 2008 , for which he only played seven games before moving to their city rivals, the reigning Belarusian champions HK Keramin Minsk , in the he finished playing time.

Since the 2009/10 season Schwedau has been playing for HK Schachzjor Salihorsk in the extra league .

International

For Belarus , Schwedau took part in the U18 Junior B World Championship in 2005 and the U20 Junior B World Championship in 2006 . He was also part of Belarus' squad at the 2007 U20 World Junior Championship .

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Promotion to the top division at the U20 World Junior Championship of Division I.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	1	7th	0	0	0	2
KHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Extraliga main round	6th	226	9	26th	35	224
Extraliga playoffs	3	27	1	4th	5	26th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Ihar Schwedau at hockeydb.com (English)
• Ihar Schwedau at eurohockey.com
• Ihar Schwedau at eliteprospects.com (English)