Yevgeny Evgenyevich Kuznetsov

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Yevgeny Kuznetsov
Date of birth May 19, 1992
place of birth Chelyabinsk , Russia
size 184 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
number # 92
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2010 , 1st round, 26th position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
2007-2014 HK tractor Chelyabinsk
since 2014 Washington Capitals

Evgeni Evgenjewitsch Kuznetsov ( Russian Евгений Евгеньевич Кузнецов ; English transcription: Evgeny or Yevgeni Kuznetsov ; born May 19, 1992 in Chelyabinsk ) is a Russian ice hockey player . The center has been under contract in the National Hockey League since 2014 with the Washington Capitals , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs . With the Russian national team he won the gold medal at the World Championships in 2012 and 2014 .

Career

Yevgeny Kuznetsov began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HK Tractor Chelyabinsk , for whose second team he was active in the Pervaya League , the third Russian division, from 2007 to 2009 . In the 2009-10 season , the attacker made his debut for Traktor's professional team in the Continental Hockey League . He scored three goals in a total of 39 games and provided seven templates. He also scored 19 points scorer in eleven games for Traktor's junior team in the first-ever multinational youth league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga .

In the 2010 NHL Entry Draft , the Russian junior international was selected by the Washington Capitals as the 26th player in the first round . However, Kuznetsov stayed with his hometown club, for which he scored 32 scorer points in 44 games in the 2010/11 season , including 17 goals, and thus almost tripled his yield compared to the previous year. He also scored seven goals and four assists for Traktor's junior team in the MHL junior league.

In 2014 the Russian moved permanently to the Capitals team, where he made his breakthrough in the 2015/16 season with 77 points in 82 games. In July 2017, he signed a new contract in Washington, which should bring him a total salary of 62.4 million US dollars over the next eight years.

In the 2018 playoffs , Kuznetsov and the Capitals won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history with a 4-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights . He himself led all players in the playoffs in scorer points (32).

International

Kuznetsov at the 2010 U20 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship

For Russia , Kuznetsov took part in the junior division in the U18 Junior World Championships in 2009 and 2010 and the U20 Junior World Championships, U20 Junior World Championships 2010 and U20 Junior World Championships 2011 . He was runner-up with the U18 national team in 2009 and world champion with the U20 national team in 2011. At the U18 World Cup in 2010 and the U20 World Cup in 2011, he was one of the three best players on his team, and in 2011 he was also elected to the All-Star Team of the U20 World Cup. In the senior sector he was in his country's squad for the Euro Hockey Tour in 2011 .

His first participation in a men's world championship followed in 2012 , where he won the gold medal. In 2014 , Kuznetsov was able to repeat this success with the Russian national team. In 2016 , 2017 and 2019 he won the bronze medal in the world championships. In August 2019, Kuznetsov was banned from the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) for four years. This affects all competitions it organizes and applies retrospectively from June 2019. As part of a doping control at the 2019 World Cup, he was found to have cocaine , although the suspicion only arose from a video published on the Internet after the World Cup, in which Kuznetsov can be seen at a table with two lines of white powder and a rolled up banknote . He said he had never used drugs and agreed to be reviewed. In contrast to IIHF, cocaine is not classified as a performance-enhancing substance by the NHL. In addition, he was removed from the bronze medal winners list for the 2019 tournament.

Achievements and Awards

International

Kuznetsov at the 2012 U20 World Cup

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2007/08 HK tractor Chelyabinsk II Pervaya League 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2008/09 HK tractor Chelyabinsk II Pervaya League 22nd 5 11 16 40 - - - - -
2009/10 HK tractor Chelyabinsk KHL 35 2 7th 9 10 4th 1 0 1 0
2009/10 Belje Medvedi Chelyabinsk MHL 9 4th 12 16 8th 2 1 2 3 4th
2010/11 HK tractor Chelyabinsk KHL 44 17th 15th 32 30th - - - - -
2010/11 Belje Medvedi Chelyabinsk MHL 8th 10 5 15th 4th 5 0 2 2 10
2011/12 HK tractor Chelyabinsk KHL 49 19th 22nd 41 30th 12 7th 2 9 10
2012/13 HK tractor Chelyabinsk KHL 51 19th 25th 44 42 25th 5 6th 11 28
2013/14 HK tractor Chelyabinsk KHL 51 19th 25th 44 42 - - - - -
2013/14 Washington Capitals NHL 17th 3 6th 9 6th - - - - -
2014/15 Washington Capitals NHL 80 11 26th 37 24 14th 5 2 7th 8th
2015/16 Washington Capitals NHL 82 20th 57 77 32 12 1 1 2 8th
2016/17 Washington Capitals NHL 82 19th 40 59 46 3 5 5 10 8th
2017/18 Washington Capitals NHL 79 27 56 83 48 24 12 20th 32 16
2018/19 Washington Capitals NHL 76 21st 51 72 50 7th 1 5 6th 2
KHL total 210 65 81 146 124 41 13 8th 21st 38
NHL overall 416 101 236 337 206 70 24 33 57 42

International

Represented Russia in:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2009 Russia U17-WHC 7th place 5 6th 4th 10 6th
2009 Russia U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 6th 7th 13 10
2010 Russia U20 World Cup 6th place 6th 2 0 2 10
2010 Russia U18 World Cup 4th Place 7th 7th 5 12 6th
2011 Russia U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 4th 7th 11 4th
2012 Russia U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 6th 7th 13 4th
2012 Russia WM 1st place, gold 10 2 4th 6th 4th
2013 Russia WM 6th place 3 1 0 1 2
2014 Russia WM 1st place, gold 10 1 1 2 4th
2016 Russia WM 3rd place, bronze 6th 1 1 2 0
2016 Russia World cup 4th Place 4th 2 0 2 6th
2017 Russia WM 3rd place, bronze 5 1 2 3 6th
2019 Russia WM Disq. 10 2 4th 6th 6th
Juniors overall 39 31 30th 61 40
Men overall 48 10 12 22nd 28

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Yevgeny Kuznetsov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kuznetsov suspended four years by IIHF, will meet with NHL Commissioner. nhl.com, August 23, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ice hockey star Kuznetsov banned for four years. spiegel.de, August 23, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Евгений Кузнецов лишён бронзовой медали чемпионата мира — 2019
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Squad of the Washington Capitals in the season 2019/20

Goalkeeper: Braden Holtby  | Ilja Samsonow  
Defender: John Carlson  ( A ) | Brenden Dillon  | Radko Gudas  | Nick Jensen  | Michal Kempný  | Dmitri Orlov  | Jonas Siegenthaler  
attacker: Nicklas Bäckström  ( A ) | Travis Boyd  | Nic Dowd  | Lars Eller  | Carl Hagelin  | Garnet Hathaway  | Ilya Kovalchuk  | Yevgeny Kuznetsov  | TJ Oshie  | Alexander Ovechkin  ( C ) | Richard Pánik  | Jakub Vrána  | Tom Wilson  
Head Coach:  vacant      Assistant  Coach : Scott Arniel  | Reid Cashman  | Blaine Forsythe    General Manager:  Brian MacLellan

personal data
SURNAME Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Evgenyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuznetsov, Evgeny Evgenievich (English spelling); Кузнецов, Евгений Евгеньевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelyabinsk , Russia