Konstantin Rudenko

Konstantin Rudenko
Date of birth	July 23, 1981
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size	179 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 34
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1999 , 6th lap, 160th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
until 1998	HK Awangard Omsk
1998-1999	Severstal Cherepovets
1999-2000	SKA Saint Petersburg
2000-2011	Yaroslavl locomotive
2011–2012	Atlant Mytishchi
2012-2016	Barys Astana

Konstantin Valerjewitsch Rudenko ( Russian Константин Валерьевич Руденко ; born July 23, 1981 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a Russian - Kazakh ice hockey player who was last under contract with Barys Astana from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Konstantin Rudenko started his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk . From there he moved to HK Awangard Omsk , for whose second team he was active in the third class Pervaya League in the 1997/98 season . He then played for a year for the second team of Severstal Tscherepowez in the second division of the Russian Federation, which was due to discrepancies uniquely parallel to the game of the Wysschaya League . In the 1999/2000 season the winger made his debut for SKA Saint Petersburg in the Superliga , the top Russian division.

For the 2000/01 season Rudenko moved within the Super League to Lokomotive Yaroslavl . With his professional team he won the Russian championship title in 2002 and 2003 . In the following years, the Russian established himself as a regular for Lokomotiv in the Super League, in the last season of which, the 2007/08 season, he was runner-up. From the 2008/09 season he was on the ice for Yaroslavl in the newly formed Continental Hockey League . In the KHL premier season he and his team reached the playoff final for the Gagarin Cup straight away , in which he and his team had to admit defeat to Ak Bars Kazan with 3: 4 wins in the best-of-seven series . For the 2011/12 season Rudenko signed a contract with Atlant Mytishchi , where he only spent one season. He then returned to his Kazakh homeland and was on the ice at Barys Astana until 2016 .

International

The Russian-born Rudenko, who was born in Kazakhstan, did not appear internationally for a long time. It was not until he was 33 that he made his debut for the Kazakh national team at the 2015 World Cup in Division I and was named captain of the team at this first appearance in the national dress. With the Asians, he managed to climb into the top division as the unbeaten group winner, to which he made a significant contribution as the best preparer of the tournament and top scorer - together with his compatriots Roman Startschenko , Kevin Dallman , Evgeny Rymarew and Wadim Krasnoslobodzew as well as the Hungarian Andrew Sarauer .

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 Russian champion with Yaroslavl locomotive
• 2003 Russian champion with Yaroslavl locomotive
• 2008 Russian runner-up with Yaroslavl locomotive
• 2009 Russian runner-up with Yaroslavl locomotive
• 2015 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2015 top scorer and most assists at the World Cup Division I, Group A.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	7th	301	57	90	147	262
KHL playoffs	7th	82	14th	29	43	68
Super League main round	9	260	45	62	107	207
Super League Playoffs	9	43	5	6th	11	22nd

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

• Konstantin Rudenko at eurohockey.com
• Konstantin Rudenko at eliteprospects.com (English)