Ilya Nikolaevich Brysgalov

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Ilya Brysgalov
Date of birth June 22, 1980
place of birth Tolyatti , Russian SFSR
Nickname Mr. Universe, Bryz
size 191 cm
Weight 90 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 80
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2000 , 2nd round, 44th position
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Career stations
until 1999 HK Lada Tolyatti
1999 HK Spartak Moscow
1999-2001 HK Lada Tolyatti
2001-2007 Anaheim Ducks
2007-2011 Phoenix Coyotes
2011-2013 Philadelphia Flyers
2013-2014 Edmonton Oilers
2014 Minnesota Wild
2014-2015 Anaheim Ducks

Ilja Nikolajewitsch Brysgalow ( Russian Илья Николаевич Брызгалов ; born June 22, 1980 in Tolyatti , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey goalkeeper who was last under contract with the Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League until the end of the 2014/15 season .

Career

Ilya Brysgalow began his career in his hometown at HK Lada Tolyatti , for whose second team he was active from 1997 in the third-class Pervaya League . In the 1998/99 season Brysgalow came increasingly to operating times and completed a total of 20 games. At the beginning of the following season he was the third goalkeeper behind Yevgeny Ryabchikov and Vincent Riendeau to the squad of the first team. In order to get more match practice, he was loaned to HK Spartak Moscow from the second-rate Wysschaja Liga . For Spartak, he played ten games with an average goal against 2.10. Because of the performances shown there, he received an invitation to the national team's training camp from national coach Alexander Jakuschew , who was also a trainer at Spartak.

At the end of the season he got the chance to act as second goalkeeper behind Riendeau in the Superliga . He played 13 Super League games with a goal average of 1.38. Because of the performances shown, he was selected during the NHL Entry Draft 2000 by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the second round in 44th position. After the Entry Draft, he stayed in his home country for another year despite an offer from the Mighty Ducks and established himself as the goalkeeper of Lada Tolyatti.

Ilja Brysgalow in the gate of the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks

At the beginning of the 2001/02 season he went to the United States to the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks , the farm team of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, in the American Hockey League , where he should first gain experience. In the same season he was also used for the first time in the National Hockey League and guarded the goal of the Californians for 32 minutes in one game. That was his only assignment in the National Hockey League for the next two and a half years. In March of the 2003/04 season he was used again in the NHL and this time completed the full 60 minutes that ended in a win. In the season there was no further use for the Mighty Ducks in the NHL and so he was ordered back to the farm team in Cincinnati. After the season, the previous second goalkeeper Martin Gerber was transferred from Anaheim to Carolina and there was now room for Brysgalow in the NHL squad. A lockout caused the failure of the 2004/05 season . Unlike most professionals, he did not move to Europe during that time, but continued to play in the AHL at the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks.

In the 2005/06 season ran the normal NHL game operations and Brysgalow was an integral part of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. In the regular season of the NHL, he completed 31 games, but remained number 2 behind Jean-Sébastien Giguère . In the playoffs he ousted Giguère, who brought only moderate performance due to an injury, and was the outstanding man of his team.

Brysgalow with the Stanley Cup

The Russian became the first rookie in the history of the NHL to manage three shutouts in the playoffs in a row and remained a total of 249 minutes and 15 seconds without conceding, which is the second-longest series ever recorded in the playoffs . He was instrumental in the Western Conference finals of the Mighty Ducks, where his team failed at the Edmonton Oilers . At the beginning of the 2006/07 season , Giguère was again number one. As a substitute goalkeeper, he came to a total of 27 missions. In the playoffs Brysgalow guarded the goal of the Californians in three games, before he conceded a 4-1 defeat in the fourth game against the Minnesota Wild and was again replaced by Giguère. The Ducks made it to the finals and eventually won the Stanley Cup .

In the 2007/08 season Brysgalow was initially again in goal, as Giguère had to recover from an operation, but after a few weeks the Russian was again a substitute goalkeeper. On November 16, 2007, Brysgalow was put on the Waiver list by the Anaheim Ducks because General Manager Brian Burke had not found a new team for him, but still wanted to enable him to move. The next day he was signed by the Phoenix Coyotes from the waiver list and played the first game in which he booked a shutout that same afternoon . Brysgalow also showed good performance in the further course of the season and signed in January 2008 with the Coyotes a three-year contract valid from the 2008/09 season worth 12.75 million US dollars. In the 2009/10 season, the Phoenix Coyotes qualified for the play-offs for the first time since 2002 . Brysgalow reached 42 wins this season, but could not prevent the first round of the Coyotes against the Detroit Red Wings . The following season , the Coyotes met the Red Wings again in the first round. The goalkeeper could not call up his good performances from the regular season and the Coyotes were eliminated after a 4-0 defeat in the best-of-seven series.

On June 7, 2011, he was given in a barter for Matt Clackson , a third-round suffrage in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, and a performance suffrage to the Philadelphia Flyers . About two weeks later, the Russian agreed on a long-term contractual relationship with the Philadelphia Flyers and signed a contract with a term of nine years until 2020, which should guarantee him around 51 million US dollars. In June 2013, however, the Flyers paid out his contract early ( buy out ) after Daniel Brière had also been released from his contract a few days earlier . In November of the same year, the Russian signed a one-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers . After two appearances with the Oklahoma City Barons in AHL , he made his debut for the Oilers on November 29, 2013 against the Nashville Predators .

Brysgalow was transferred to the Minnesota Wild on March 5, 2014 for a four-round suffrage of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft . They did not extend his contract, which expired in July 2014, so that from then on he was looking for a new employer as a free agent . In December 2014, he returned to the Anaheim Ducks , where he began his NHL career, and signed a one-year contract there. The Ducks responded to the injuries of their two goalkeepers John Gibson and Jason LaBarbera .

In February 2015, the injured goalkeeper returned, so Brysgalow should be sent to the AHL via the waiver . As a result, the Ducks and the Russian reached an agreement that allowed him to return to his family, no longer play for the Ducks and let the existing contract expire.

International

Brysgalow represented his home country in both junior and senior positions in international championships. The goalkeeper played for Russia for the first time at the U20 World Youth Championship in 2000 . There he formed the goalkeeper team together with Alexei Volkov . The good game of the two led to the Russians winning the bronze medal. Brysgalow himself ended the tournament with the highest catch quota and the lowest goals against .

Ilya Brysgalow at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

The achievements at the U20 World Cup gave the goalkeeper the nomination for the men's world championship in his own country, which Russia finished in a disappointing eleventh place. Despite his young age, he played more games than Yegor Podomazki, three and a half years his senior . With the same he belonged to Nikolai Chabibulin to the three goalkeepers who were part of the squad for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Although Chabibulin completed all six games of the Russians, Brysgalow received the bronze medal at the end of the tournament. At the World Cup of Hockey 2004 , the Russian led the team for the first time as the undisputed goalkeeper. He played three of Russia's four games that failed in the quarter-finals to the United States . With him were Maxim Sokolow and Alexander Fomitschow as additional goalkeepers in the squad. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Brysgalow filled behind Evgeni Nabokov again the role of back-ups from. So he came across only one use in the course of the Winter Games. It was not until the World Cup in 2009 that the goalkeeper finally established himself in the Russian goal when he helped the Sbornaja defend the world title. It was also Brysgalow's greatest international success. A year later, he filled the role of substitute again at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver behind Nabokow.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2014/15 season

    Regular season   Playoffs
season team league GP W. L. T MIN GA SO ATM GP W. L. T MIN GA SO ATM
1997/98 HK Lada Tolyatti II Pervaya League 8th 480 28 3.50 - - - - - - - -
1998/99 HK Lada Tolyatti II Pervaya League 20th 1200 43 2.15 - - - - - - - -
1999/00 HK Spartak Moscow Vysschaya League 9 500 21st 2.52 - - - - - - - -
HK Lada Tolyatti II Pervaya League 2 5 - - - - - - - -
HK Lada Tolyatti Super league 14th 796 18th 3 1.36 7th 4th 3 - 407 10 1 1.47
2000/01 HK Lada Tolyatti Super league 34 1992 61 8th 1.84 5 2 3 - 249 8th 0 1.93
2001/02 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 45 20th 16 4th 2399 99 4th 2.48 - - - - - - - -
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 1 0 0 0 32 1 0 1.87 - - - - - - - -
2002/03 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 54 12 26th 9 3020 142 1 2.82 - - - - - - - -
2003/04 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 64 27 25th 10 3748 145 6th 2.32 9 5 4th 0 536 27 1 3.02
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 1 1 0 0 60 2 0 2.00 - - - - - - - -
2004/05 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 36 17th 13 1 2007 87 4th 2.60 7th 3 3 0 314 13 0 2.48
2005/06 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 31 13 12 1 1575 66 1 2.51 11 6th 4th 0 658 16 3 1.46
2006/07 Anaheim Ducks NHL 27 10 8th 6th 1508 62 1 2.47 5 3 1 0 266 10 0 2.25
2007/08 Anaheim Ducks NHL 9 2 3 1 446 19th 0 2.55 - - - - - - - -
Phoenix Coyotes NHL 55 26th 22nd 5 3167 128 3 2.43 - - - - - - - -
2008/09 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 65 26th 31 6th 3759 187 3 2.98 - - - - - - - -
2009/10 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 69 42 20th 6th 4084 156 8th 2.29 7th 3 4th - 419 24 0 3.44
2010/11 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 68 36 20th 10 4060 168 7th 2.48 4th 0 4th - 234 17th 0 4.36
2011/12 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 59 33 16 7th 3415 141 6th 2.48 11 0 6th - 642 17th 0 3.46
2012/13 CSKA Moscow KHL 12 6th 5 0 3415 23 6th 2.13 - - - - - - - -
2012/13 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 40 19th 17th 3 2298 107 1 2.79 - - - - - - - -
2013/14 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 2 1 1 0 119 6th 0 3.03 - - - - - - - -
2013/14 Edmonton Oilers NHL 20th 5 8th 5 1135 57 1 3.01 - - - - - - - -
2013/14 Minnesota Wild NHL 12 7th 1 3 679 24 3 2.12 9 3 6th - 479 21st 1 2.63
2014/15 Norfolk Admirals AHL 2 1 1 0 119 5 0 2.53 - - - - - - - -
2014/15 Anaheim Ducks NHL 8th 1 4th 1 329 23 0 4.19 - - - - - - - -
Super league overall 48 2782 79 11 1.70 12 6th 6th - 656 18th 1 1.80
NHL overall 465 221 162 54 26551 1141 34 2.58 47 20th 35 - 2700 125 4th 2.78

International

Represented Russia in:

year team event GP W. L. T MIN GA SO ATM SV%
2000 Russia U20 World Cup 4th 234 3 1 0.77 97.1
2000 Russia WM 4th 218 10 0 2.75 88.0
2002 Russia Olympia - - - - - - - - -
2004 Russia WCH 3 2 1 0 180 7th 0 2.33 89.7
2006 Russia Olympia 1 0 1 0 60 5 0 5.00 86.1
2009 Russia WM 7th 7th 0 0 404 14th 1 2.09 92.9
2010 Russia Olympia 2 0 1 0 101 3 0 1.78 94.2
Juniors overall 4th 234 3 1 0.77 97.1
Men overall 17th 963 39 1 2.42 90.9

( 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)

Web links

Commons : Ilja Brysgalow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ilya Bryzgalov - Phoenix Coyotes (# 44/2000 NHL Draft). (No longer available online.) Russianprospects.com, archived from the original on September 12, 2014 ; Retrieved June 9, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.russianprospects.com
  2. ↑ espn.com, Brzygalov signs three-year, $ 12.75 million extension with Coyotes. Retrieved June 8, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Flyers trade for Bryzgalov. Philadelphia Flyers, accessed June 8, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Bryzgalov signs nine-year, $ 51 million deal with Flyers. TSN , accessed June 23, 2011 .
  5. ↑ sportsnet.ca: "Bryzgalov signs deal with banged-up Ducks" (December 9, 2014, accessed December 10, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Brysgalow, Ilya Nikolaevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bryzgalov, Ilya (English spelling); Брызгалов, Илья Николаевич (Russian spelling); BRYZ (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Tolyatti , Russian SFSR