Konstantin Schafranow

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KazakhstanKazakhstan  Konstantin Schafranow Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 11, 1968
place of birth Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size 183 cm
Weight 90 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1996 , 9th lap, 229th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1985-1994 Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
1994-1995 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
1995-1996 Fort Wayne Comet
1996-1997 Worcester IceCats
1997-1998 Fort Wayne Comet
1998-1999 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
1999-2000 Grand Rapids Griffins
Fort Wayne Comet
2000-2001 HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2001-2002 HK CSKA Moscow
2002-2003 Chimik Voskressensk
2003-2005 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2005-2006 Krylya Sovetov Moscow
2006-2007 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2007-2010 Fort Wayne Comet

Konstantin Witaljewitsch Schafranow ( Russian Константин Витальевич Шафранов ; born September 11, 1968 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a former Kazakh ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League from 1985 to 2010 for the St. Louis Blues has played.

He has been working as a coach since 2013, initially with Fort Wayne Komets in the ECHL , in the 2017/18 season with Amur Khabarovsk in the Continental Hockey League and since 2018 with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg .

Career

Konstantin Schafranow began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown with Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk , for whose professional team he was active from 1985 to 1994, initially in the then second-rate Pervaya League , and after rising in 1989 in the top Soviet league. During the 1993/94 season he also came on four missions for the Detroit Falcons from the Colonial Hockey League . In the 1994/95 season, the attacker ran for HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk . After he began the following season in Magnitogorsk, he finished it with the Fort Wayne Komets from the International Hockey League before he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1996 in the ninth round as a total of 229th player of the St. Louis Blues . In the 1995/96 season , the Kazakh national player played his only five games in the National Hockey League for the St. Louis Blues, but the rest of the time he spent with its farm team , the Worcester IceCats from the American Hockey League .

For the 1997/98 season Schafranow returned to the Fort Wayne Komets from the IHL, before he became Russian champions for the first and only time in his career with his ex-club HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the following season . In the same year he and his team won the European Hockey League at European level . After the end of the season in the Russian Super League , the winger played two more games for Fort Wayne in the IHL playoffs. He stayed with the Komets in the following season after they moved to the United Hockey League . At the same time, he was in the 1999/2000 season for the Providence Bruins AHL team on the ice.

From 2000 to 2003 Schafranow was under contract for one season each in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, at HK Sibir Novosibirsk , HK CSKA Moscow and Chimik Voskressensk , where he rose to the Super League in 2003 with Chimik. In this he started the 2003/04 season with his team before he was obliged by its league rival Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod . With Novgorod he rose at the end of the season, however, and spent the following season again in the Wysschaja Liga. After he had started the 2005/06 season at Krylya Sowetow Moscow , he returned shortly before the end of the season to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, with whom he achieved promotion to the Super League in 2007 as a second division champion. Then the two-time Olympian moved again to the Fort Wayne Komets in the IHL. There he ended his career in 2010.

International

For Kazakhstan Schafranow took part in the C world championships in 1993 and 1994 , and the B world championship in 2001 . In addition, he was in the squad of Kazakhstan to the A World Championships in 1998 , 2005 , 2006 and 2010 , as well as the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and 2006 in Turin .

Achievements and Awards

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 1 5 2 1 3 0
Playoffs - - - - - -

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personal data
SURNAME Schafranow, Konstantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schafranow, Konstantin Vitalievich; Shafranov, Konstantin (English spelling); Шафранов, Константин Витальевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kazakh ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR