Kirill Sergeyevich Kabanov

Kirill Kabanov
Date of birth	July 16, 1992
place of birth	Moscow , Russia
size	192 cm
Weight	94 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 7
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 3rd round, 65th position New York Islanders
Career stations
until 2007	HK CSKA Moscow
2007-2009	HK Spartak Moscow
2009-2010	Moncton Wildcats
2010-2011	Lewiston MAINEiacs
2011–2012	Shawinigan Cataractes
2012-2014	Bridgeport Sound Tigers Stockton Thunder
2014	MODO hockey
2014-2015	Skellefteå AIK
2015-2016	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2016	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2017-2018	Aalborg Pirates
2018-2019	Krefeld penguins
since 2019	Aalborg Pirates

Kirill Sergejewitsch Kabanow ( Russian Кирилл Сергеевич Кабанов ; born July 16, 1992 in Moscow ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Aalborg Pirates from the Danish Metal Ligaen since 2019 .

Career

Kabanow began his ice hockey career in the offspring of HK CSKA Moscow . In the summer of 2007 he moved to city rivals HK Spartak Moscow and was at the age of 15 during the 2007/08 season for the first time in the squad of the second senior team, which played in the third-rate Pervaya League . During the 2008/09 season , the now 16-year-old striker made his debut for Spartak's first team. Overall, he was used in ten games of the Continental Hockey League , points were denied him.

In the summer of 2009, Kabanov's move to North America caused a sensation. After his contract at Spartak had expired, the Russian joined Salawat Yulayev Ufa on July 16 and initially trained with the team. Since Salawat only offered him a contract with no release clause for the National Hockey League , Kabanov did not sign the contract. He left Ufa and moved to North America. There, the Moncton Wildcats from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec selected him in the first round in the CHL Import Draft 2009 in seventh place. Kabanov then joined the team. Salawat protested after the signing with the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF , because they insisted on having a valid contract with Kabanov that prohibited a move to North America. The IIHF did not share this view and confirmed the change on October 9, 2009.

Kabanow then played the season with the Moncton Wildcats, but completed only 22 games in which he scored 23 points. The reason for this was an operation on his wrist that he had sustained in the preseason in Russia, and a ten-week break that resulted from it. At the end of the season he won the Coupe du Président with the Wildcats , although he was only used once because he had been transferred to the Russian U18 junior national team, which was preparing for the U18 junior world championship , before he briefly after the start of the season - at the end of October 2010 - switched to the Lewiston MAINEiacs within the LHJMQ . There he came to 37 regular season appearances in the 2010/11 season. After scoring 28 points there, he got 20 points in 15 games in the subsequent playoffs. The MAINEiacs stopped playing after the end of the season and were relocated to Blainville in the Canadian province of Québec . There they should play the game year 2011/12 as Blainville-Boisbriand Armada . Kabanow was also part of the roster initially, although he was signed to the New York Islanders for three years on July 1, 2011 . They had previously selected him in the third round in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in 65th place. In mid-October 2011, however, the Islanders management decided to loan the striker to Färjestad BK from the Swedish Elitserien for a month . Since the Armada had already filled the foreign contingent and the striker was too young to play in the American Hockey League , loan was the only option. A few days later, however, his transfer rights within the LHJMQ were given to the Shawinigan Cataractes .

For this Kabanow completed the entire 2011/12 season and won the Memorial Cup with the team at the end of the season . The following season 2012/13 began the striker in the AHL farm team of the New York Islanders, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers , and debuted for this on October 12, 2012 in an away game against the Connecticut Whale in the American Hockey League. There, however, the Russian was unable to establish himself due to his moderate offensive strength and was even given to the Stockton Thunder farm team in the lower class East Coast Hockey League in the following year , before he was awarded to MODO Hockey in the Svenska Hockeyligan in January 2014 . In the summer of 2014, Kabanow moved within the league to Skellefteå AIK , for which he played in the 2014/15 season.

In the summer of 2015, he took part in the New York Rangers training camp , but received no contract and therefore returned to Europe. At the end of October of the same year he was committed by the KHL club Salawat Yulayev Ufa . For Salawat he only played nine KHL games in the 2015/16 season and was then given over to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk . He worked there until October 2016, before his contract was terminated due to a serious injury.

For the 2017/18 season, Kabaonov moved to the Aalborg Pirates team, with whom he became Danish champions and cup winners. The following season he signed a contract with the Krefeld Penguins from the German Ice Hockey League .

International

Kabanov represented his home country for the first time at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2008 . There he scored eleven points in five games, including nine assists . This made him the best template provider in the competition. A year later he played at the U18 World Junior Championship in the United States in 2009 . He won the silver medal after a 5-0 defeat in the final against the hosts. He himself contributed eleven scorer points in seven games. This made him the third-best scorer on his team and eighth-best of the entire tournament. He was also the youngest player in the Russian squad.

A year later, Kabanow was to play in the U18 Junior World Championship 2010 in Belarus and was released from his club team in April for this purpose. In the training camp before the tournament, however, he fell out with the Russian selection coach Mikhail Wassiljew and was removed from the squad due to disciplinary measures.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 CHL Top Prospects Game (cancellation due to injury)
• 2010 Coupe du Président win with the Moncton Wildcats
• 2012 Memorial Cup win with the Shawinigan Cataractes

International

• 2008 Best Assists in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2009 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008/09	HK Spartak Moscow	KHL		6th	0	0	0	2		4th	0	0	0	0
2009/10	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ		22nd	10	13	23	34		1	0	0	0	2
2010/11	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ		2	0	0	0	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Lewiston MAINEiacs	LHJMQ		37	11	17th	28	38		15th	8th	12	20th	18th
2011/12	Shawinigan Cataractes	LHJMQ		50	21st	34	55	42		11	4th	9	13	12
2012/13	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		32	2	7th	9	27		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		16	3	0	3	12		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Stockton Thunder	ECHL		9	4th	4th	8th	11		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Modo hockey	SHL		12	6th	2	8th	2		2	0	1	1	4th
2014/15	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		43	11	18th	29	20th		13	3	3	6th	4th
2015/16	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		8th	0	0	0	14th		1	0	0	0	0
2016/17	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL		5	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				111	42	64	106	120		27	12	21st	33	32
KHL total				9	0	0	0	18th		5	0	0	0	0

International

Represented Russia in:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2008
• U18 Junior World Championship 2009

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008	Russia	U17-WHC		5	2	9	11	28
2009	Russia	U18 World Cup		7th	4th	7th	11	18th
Juniors overall				12	6th	16	22nd	46

( 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

• Kirill Kabanow at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Kirill Kabanow at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Состав на сезон 2007-2008. (No longer available online.) HK Spartak Moscow , archived from the original on July 31, 2009 ; Retrieved October 15, 2011 (Russian). 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.  
2. ↑ IIHF approves disputed transfer. Russian Kabanov, 17, free to join Moncton of QMJHL. International Ice Hockey Federation , October 9, 2009, accessed October 15, 2011 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Russian prospect Kabanov at the center of controversy. The Sports Network , April 9, 2010, accessed October 15, 2011 . 
4. ^ Justin Pelletier: Russian coup: Maineiacs acquire Kabanov. Sun Journal , October 29, 2010, accessed October 15, 2011 . 
5. ^ Islanders ink 2010 draft pick Kabanov to three-year deal. The Sports Network , July 1, 2011, accessed October 15, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Jörgen Kalitzki: Kabanov spelar Nästa vecka. Färjestad BK , October 14, 2011, accessed October 15, 2011 (Swedish). 
7. ↑ Audrey Besner: Transaction between the Cataractes and the Armada. (No longer available online.) Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , October 14, 2011, archived from the original on October 15, 2011 ; accessed on October 15, 2011 (English). 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.  
8. ↑ Kirill Kabanov connects with AIK ( Swedish ) skellefteaaik.se. July 30, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
9. ↑ Rangers announce training camp roster . snyrangersblog.com. September 17, 2015. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015. 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. Retrieved September 17, 2015. 
10. ↑ Кирилл Кабанов в «Салавате Юлаеве». (No longer available online.) In: hcsalavat.ru. October 24, 2015, archived from the original on November 19, 2015 ; Retrieved November 19, 2015 (Russian). 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.  
11. ↑ Player Statistics by Team - RUS - Russia. ( PDF ; 559 kB) International Ice Hockey Federation , April 20, 2009, accessed on October 15, 2011 (English). 
12. ^ Scoring Leaders. ( PDF ; 558 kB) International Ice Hockey Federation , April 20, 2009, accessed on October 15, 2011 (English). 
13. ↑ Team Roster - RUS - Russia. ( PDF ; 558 kB) International Ice Hockey Federation , April 20, 2009, accessed on October 15, 2011 (English). 
14. ↑ Entry List by Team - RUS - Russia. ( PDF ; 52 kB) International Ice Hockey Federation , April 7, 2010, accessed on October 15, 2011 (English).