Jurij Hunko

Jurij Hunko
Date of birth	February 28, 1972
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
size	190 cm
Weight	94 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1992 , 10th lap, 230th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1988-1990	SchWSM Kiev
1990-1995	HK Sokol Kiev
1995-1999	Ak Bars Kazan
1999-2000	Hanover Scorpions
2000-2001	Ak Bars Kazan
2001-2002	HK CSKA Moscow
2002-2006	HK Sokol Kiev
2006-2007	HKm Zvolen
2007	HK ATEK Kiev
since 2007	HK Sokol Kiev

Jurij Dmytrowytsch Hunko ( Ukrainian Юрій Дмитрович Гунько , Russian Юрий Дмитриевич Гунько Yuri Dmitrijewitsch Gunko ; born February 28, 1972 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian ice hockey player Sokol since 2007 .

Career

Jurij Hunko began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown at SchWSM Kiev , for whose professional team he was active in the second Soviet division from 1988 to 1990. He then played for two years in parallel for HK Sokol Kiev in the highest Soviet league, as well as occasionally for SHWSM Kiev in the second division. From 1992 to 1995, the defender joined the Ukrainian capital club Sokol Kiev in the International Hockey League . He then moved to his Russian league rivals Ak Bars Kazan , with whom he won the Russian championship title in the 1998 Super League founded two years earlier .

For the 1999/2000 season , Hunko signed a contract with the Hannover Scorpions from the German Ice Hockey League . For Lower Saxony, he scored two goals and six assists in 44 games in his only DEL season. For the 2000/01 season , the Ukrainian returned to Ak Bars Kazan, but could not build on the successful period of the 1990s, so he was committed to the following season by HK CSKA Moscow from the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. From 2002 to 2006 the national player was under contract with his ex-club HK Sokol Kiev, with whom he took part in the Belarusian Extra League , the international East European Hockey League and the Ukrainian Ice Hockey League . In all four seasons he won the national championship title with his team . During the 2003/04 season he also played twice for Gasowik Tyumen in the second Russian division.

The 2006/07 season spent mostly at Hunko HKm Zvolen in the Slovak Extraliga . Towards the end of the season, however, he returned to his Ukrainian homeland, where he played two games for his long-term club Sokol Kiev before winning the Ukrainian championship with its city neighbor HK ATEK Kiev . Since 2007, the left-shooter has been playing for Sokol Kiev again, initially for two years in the Russian Wysschaya League and since 2009 in the Belarusian Extra League, where he was again Ukrainian champions in 2009 in parallel with Sokol's second team. In the 2010/11 season , Hunko and Sokol Kiev took part in the IIHF Continental Cup at European level . With his team he was automatically qualified for the third round of the competition, but failed with Sokol Kiev after defeats against SønderjyskE Ishockey from Denmark and Asiago Hockey from Italy to qualify for the Super Final.

International

For the Soviet Union , Hunko took part in the 1990 U18 European Junior Championship in the junior division. For Ukraine he participated in the C World Championships in 1993 , 1994 and 1995 , the B World Championships in 1998 , 2008 and 2009 , and the A World Championships in 1999 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 and 2007 . Furthermore, he was in his country's squad at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , but was not used in the course of the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

1998 Russian champion with Ak Bars Kazan 2003 Ukrainian champion with the HK Sokol Kiev 2004 Ukrainian champion with the HK Sokol Kiev 2005 Ukrainian champion with the HK Sokol Kiev

2006 Ukrainian champion with the HK Sokol Kiev 2007 Ukrainian champion with the HK ATEK Kiev 2009 Ukrainian champion with the HK Sokol Kiev

International

• 1990 silver medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
• 1998 promotion to the top division at the B World Championship

DEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	1	44	2	6th	8th	42
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Jurij Hunko at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jurij Hunko at eliteprospects.com (English)