Kirill Sergejewitsch Tulupow

Kirill Tulupov
Date of birth	23rd April 1988  (age 32)
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
size	191 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 3rd round, 67th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
until 2006	Neftyanik Leninogorsk
2006-2007	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi
2007-2009	Tigres de Victoriaville
2009-2010	HC Slovan Bratislava
2010-2011	Krylja Sowetow Moscow HK Sary-Arka Karaganda
2011–2012	Oklahoma City Barons
2012-2013	Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg Amur Khabarovsk Arizona Sundogs
since 2013	Gwinnett Gladiators

Kirill Sergejewitsch Tulupow ( Russian Кирилл Сергеевич Тулупов ; born April 23, 1988 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Gwinnett Gladiators in the ECHL since October 2013 .

Career

Kirill Tulupov began his career as a hockey player with Neftjanik Leninogorsk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Vysschaja Liga , the then second Russian division, in the 2005/06 season . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2006 in the third round as a total of 67th player by the New Jersey Devils . The defender then moved to the Canadian top junior league QMJHL , in which he was active from 2006 to 2009 for the Saguenéens de Chicoutimi and the Tigres de Victoriaville . For the 2009/10 season , the Russian returned to Europe and completed his first full season in professional ice hockey for HC Slovan Bratislava from the Slovakian Extraliga .

The 2010/11 season began Tulupov at HK Spartak Moscow from the Continental Hockey League , for which he was used in four games. In the further course of the season he also played for Krylja Sowetow Moscow and Molot-Prikamje Perm from the new second Russian division, the Wysschaja Hockey League and for the HK Sary-Arka Karaganda from the Kazakh championship . For the 2011/12 season , the former junior international joined the Oklahoma City Barons from the American Hockey League . For this he scored one goal and seven assists in 33 games. The 2012/13 season he first spent at Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg from the KHL, before he was transferred to Amur Khabarovsk within the league in November 2012 .

International

For Russia , Tulupov took part in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2006 . During the tournament he prepared two goals in six games.

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	1	4th	0	0	0	8th
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

• Kirill Tulupow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Kirill Tulupow at eliteprospects.com (English)