Kanstanzin Sacharau

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Kanstanzin Sacharau
Date of birth May 2, 1985
place of birth Minsk , Belarusian SSR
size 187 cm
Weight 95 kg
position center
number # 21
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 3rd round, 101st position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
until 2001 HK Junost Minsk
2001-2002 Krylya Sovetov Moscow
2002-2003 HK Homel
HK Junost Minsk
2003-2004 Moncton Wildcats
2004-2005 Worcester IceCats
2005-2006 Alaska Aces
HK Junost Minsk
2006-2007 Peoria Rivermen
2007-2013 HK Junost Minsk
2013 HK Junior Minsk
2013-2015 HK Dinamo Minsk
2015 HK Ertis Pavlodar

Kanstanzin Michailawitsch Sacharau ( Belarusian Канстанцін Міхайлавіч Захараў , Russian Константин Михайлович Захаров / Konstantin Mikhailovich Sakharov; * 2. May 1985 in Minsk , Byelorussian SSR ) is a Belarusian ice hockey player who most recently at Yertis Pavlodar in the Kazakh Hockey League was under contract. His father, Mikhail Sacharau , who was born in the Kazakh SSR , is a well-known Belarusian ice hockey coach .

Career

Kanstanzin Sacharau comes from the junior division of the HK Junost Minsk . In 2001 he moved to Moscow and played for the second team of Krylya Sowetow Moscow in the third-rate Pervaya League . A year later he returned to his home country, where he went on the ice for both his hometown club Junost and HK Homel . With Homel he won the Belarusian Championship and the Belarusian Cup in 2003 and was runner-up in the East European Hockey League .

Sacharau in the jersey of the Belarusian U20 national team

In the 2003 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the third round by the St. Louis Blues and then decided to move to North America. He spent the 2003/04 season with the Moncton Wildcats in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League . He then received his first professional contract with the Worcester IceCats from the American Hockey League , the then farm team of the St. Louis Blues.

He started the 2005/06 season in the ECHL with the Alaska Aces , but returned to his home club after eight games in Belarus. A year later he tried again to gain a foothold in North America and completed 32 AHL games for the Peoria Rivermen . In spring 2007, shortly before the play-offs in Belarus, he returned to his homeland, where he has since played for Junost Minsk in the Belarusian extra league. He was runner-up by Belarus in 2008 and champion in 2009.

In January 2010 Kanstanzin Sacharau was loaned by KHL participant HK Dinamo Minsk and Sacharau completed four games for Dinamo. Since Dinamo missed the play-offs in 2010 , he returned to HK Junost Minsk after the Olympic break and played the play-offs of the extra league for this.

Between August 2013 and 2015, Sacharau was under contract with HK Dinamo Minsk in the Continental Hockey League .

International

Kanstanzin Sacharau played between 2000 and 2005 in all important tournaments for the junior national teams of Belarus. He was able to win the scorer ranking of a junior world championship twice.

Due to the injury-related failures of the two NHL strikers Andrej Kaszizyn and Michail Hrabouski , Dzmitryj Mjaleschka and Sacharau were nominated for the 2010 Winter Olympics on February 15, 2010 . Sacharau completed four games at the Olympic tournament, with one goal.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2000/01 HK Junost Minsk Extra league
2001/02 Krylya Sovetov Moscow II Pervaya League 7th 5 1 6th 3
2002/03 HK Homel Extra league
2002/03 HK Homel EEHL 14th 2 4th 6th 10
2002/03 HK Junost Minsk Extra league 34 26th 28 54 34
2003/04 Moncton Wildcats QMJHL 55 33 16 49 63 20th 7th 9 16 18th
2004/05 Worcester IceCats AHL 59 4th 10 14th 26th - - - - -
2005/06 Alaska Aces ECHL 8th 0 2 2 4th - - - - -
2005/06 HK Junost Minsk Extra league 36 14th 15th 29 78 - - - - -
2006/07 Peoria Rivermen AHL 32 8th 6th 14th 43 - - - - -
2006/07 HK Junost Minsk Extra league 2 0 0 0 2 7th 3 1 4th 12
2007/08 HK Junost Minsk Extra league 42 12 24 36 128 5 0 1 1 31
2008/09 HK Junost Minsk Extra league 46 14th 28 42 83 14th 3 2 5 32
2009/10 HK Junost Minsk Extra league 29 7th 15th 22nd 30th 13 5 6th 11 34
2009/10 HK Dinamo Minsk KHL 4th 0 0 0 6th - - - - -
2010/11 HK Junost Minsk Extra league 44 12 27 39 57 2 1 0 1 2
AHL total 91 12 16 28 69 - - - - -
KHL total 4th 0 0 0 6th - - - - -

International

Represented Belarus at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2000 Belarus U18 World Cup 10th place 5 0 0 0 2
2001 Belarus U20 World Cup 9th place 6th 0 0 0 0
2001 Belarus U18 World Championship Div. I. 1st place 5 6th 8th 14th 39
2002 Belarus U20 World Cup 9th place 6th 1 1 2 6th
2002 Belarus U18 World Cup 5th place 8th 1 5 6th 20th
2003 Belarus U20 World Cup 10th place 4th 1 1 2 4th
2003 Belarus U18 World Cup 8th place 6th 5 11 16 10
2004 Belarus U20 World Cup Div. I. 1st place 5 4th 10 14th 14th
2005 Belarus U20 World Cup 10th place 6th 3 2 5 6th
2010 Belarus Olympia 9th place 4th 1 0 1 4th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Sacharau, Kanstanzin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sacharau, Kanstanzin Michailawitsch; Zakharov, Konstantin (English spelling); Захаров, Константин Михайлович (Russian spelling); Захараў, Канстанцін Міхайлавіч (Belarusian spelling); Sakharov, Konstantin Michailowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk , Belarusian SSR