Yevgeny Alexandrovich Zhdanov

Yevgeny Zhdanov
Date of birth	July 20, 1983
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size	185 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	striker
number	# 83
Career stations
until 2000	HK Awangard Omsk
2001-2003	Mostowik Kurgan
2003	Metallurgist Serov
2003-2005	Motor Barnaul
2005-2006	Sputnik Nizhny Tagil
2006-2007	HK Sary-Arka Karaganda
2007-2008	HK Kasachmys Satpajew Barys Astana
2008-2009	HK Irtysh Pavlodar Gornjak Rudny
2009-2010	HK Irtysh Pavlodar
since 2011	HK Beibarys Atyrau

Yevgeny Alexandrowitsch Schdanow ( Russian Евгений Александрович Жданов ; born July 20, 1983 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Beibarys Atyrau in the Kazakh championship since 2011 .

Career

Yevgeny Zhdanov began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of the Russian top club HK Avangard Omsk , for whose second team he was active in the third-rate Pervaya League from 1998 to 2000 . The attacker then played for four years for various professional teams in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. These were Mostowik Kurgan , Metallurg Serow , Motor Barnaul and Sputnik Nizhny Tagil . For the 2006/07 season he moved to his home country for HK Sary-Arka Karaganda , for whom he played in both the Russian Pervaya League and the Kazakh Championship . He also played this season for the HK Irtysch Pavlodar in Kazakhstan, as well as Ariada-Akpars Wolschsk and the HK Kazachmys Satpajew in the Wysschaja League.

The 2007/08 season spent Zhdanov again in the Wysschaja Liga, in which he was on the ice for his Kazakh ex-club HK Kazachmys Satpajew, and Barys Astana . During the following two years, the former Kazakh junior international was under contract with HK Irtysh Pavlodar and Gornjak Rudny in the Kazakh championship. For the 2010/11 season he was finally obliged by his ex-club Barys Astana from the Continental Hockey League . For the team, however, he did not play a single game and joined the HK Beibarys Atyrau from the Kazakh championship for the 2011/12 season .

International

For Kazakhstan , Zhdanov took part in the U18 Junior B World Championship in 2001 . During the tournament he scored nine goals in five games and gave another four assists.

Vysschaya League statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	7th	190	33	26th	59	76
Playoffs	3	19th	2	0	2	8th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Yevgeny Zhdanov at eliteprospects.com (English)