Ilya Igorevich Yezhov

Ilya Yezhov
Date of birth	January 12, 1987
place of birth	Krasnodar , Russian SFSR
size	187 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 33
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2005-2007	St. John's Fog Devils
2007-2008	Melfort Mustangs
2008-2011	HK WMF Saint Petersburg
2011-2014	SKA Saint Petersburg
2014	HK Lada Tolyatti
2014-2016	SKA Saint Petersburg
2016-2017	HK Lada Tolyatti
2017-2019	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
since 2019	HK Vitjas

Ilya Igorewitsch Jeschow ( Russian Илья Игоревич Ежов ; born January 12, 1987 in Krasnodar , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with HK Vitjas from Podolsk in the Continental Hockey League since July 2019 .

Career

Ilya Jeschow began his career as a hockey player with the St. John's Fog Devils , for which he was active from 2005 to 2007 in the Canadian junior league QMJHL . He then played for a year for the Melfort Mustangs in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , where he was named most valuable player in the league in the 2007/08 season and was elected to their first All-Star team. The goalkeeper then returned to his Russian homeland, where he was on the ice for the professional team of HK WMF Saint Petersburg from 2008 to 2011 - initially for two years in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, and in the 2010 / 11 in their successor competition Vysschaja Hockey League .

For the 2011/12 season , Jeschow was signed by SKA Saint Petersburg from the Continental Hockey League , for which he played regularly until 2014.

In September 2014, Jeschow was handed over by the SKA to the HK Lada Tolyatti and convinced there with very good performances, so that he was named KHL goalkeeper of the week twice. At the end of December 2014, he returned to the SKA in exchange for Yevgeny Ivannikov , where he served 18 KHL missions by 2016. In May 2016 he was signed again by Lada Tolyatti.

In the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons, Jeschow was under contract with Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk and as a regular goalkeeper made 104 appearances in the KHL. In some cases he showed very good statistical values ​​and was therefore invited to the KHL All-Star Game 2018 and awarded twice as goalkeeper of the week . In July 2019, Jeschow was signed by HK Vitjas from Podolsk .

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Most valuable player in the SJHL
• 2008 SJHL First All-Star Team
• 2015 Gagarin Cup win with SKA Saint Petersburg
• 2018 KHL All-Star Game

Career statistics

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Regular season

season	team	league	Sp	Min	S.	N	SOP	SaT	SVS	Sv%	GT	GTS	SO
2010/11	HK WMF Saint Petersburg	WysHL	49	2972: 18	22nd	20th	7th	1528	1409	92.2	119	2.40	3
2011/12	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	22nd	1165: 52	12	3	5	547	503	92.0	44	2.26	1
2012/13	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	21st	1237: 17	15th	5	1	574	528	92.0	46	2.23	2
2013/14	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	18th	1069: 06	12	3	2	483	449	93.0	34	1.91	2
2014/15	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	2	118: 12	1	1	0	54	52	96.3	2	1.02	0
2014/15	HK Lada Tolyatti	KHL	33	1943: 01	11	19th	3	1065	989	92.9	76	2.35	2
2015/16	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	16	805: 32	7th	5	3	390	361	92.6	29	2.16	0
2016/17	HK Lada Tolyatti	KHL	50	2919: 21	14th	27	7th	1560	1433	91.9	127	2.61	3
2017/18	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL	50	2783: 57	23	18th	5	1433	1332	93.0	101	2.18	7th
2018/19	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL	50	2818: 52	19th	27	3	1287	1173	91.1	114	2.43	1
2019/20	HK Vitjas	KHL	4th	247: 39	1	1	2	132	123	93.2	9	2.18	0
KHL total			266	15108: 49	115	109	31	7525	6943	92.3	582	2.31	18th

Play-offs

season	team	league	Sp	Min	S.	N	SOP	SaT	SVS	Sv%	GT	GTS	SO
2010/11	HK WMF Saint Petersburg	WysHL	5	298: 52	3	2	0	183	171	93.4	12	2.41	1
2011/12	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	3	166: 30	1	1	0	69	63	91.3	6th	2.16	0
2012/13	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	11	645: 30	6th	4th	0	282	263	93.3	19th	1.77	2
2017/18	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL	4th	177: 41	0	4th	0	91	80	87.9	11	3.71	0
KHL total			18th	989: 41	7th	9	0	442	406	91.9	36	2.18	2

Web links

• Ilja Jeschow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Илья Ежов покидает СКА. In: ska.ru. September 6, 2014, accessed September 16, 2019 (Russian). 
2. ↑ КХЛ подтвердила возвращение Ежова в СКА. In: sport.ru. December 25, 2014, Retrieved September 16, 2019 (Russian). 
3. ↑ "Витязь" объявил о переходе Ежова. In: sport-express.ru. July 12, 2019, Retrieved September 16, 2019 (Russian).