Leonid Borissowitsch Metalnikow

Leonid Metalnikov
Date of birth	April 25, 1990
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size	183 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2006-2010	Kaszink torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
2010–2012	Gornjak Rudny
2012-2013	Kaszink torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
2013-2014	HK Ertis Pavlodar
2014	Yuzhny Ural Orsk
2014-2015	Kaszink torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
2015-2016	Nomad Astana
2016-2018	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
2018-2019	HK Saryarka Karaganda
since 2019	Barys Nur-Sultan

Leonid Borissowitsch Metalnikow ( Russian Леонид Борисович Метальников ; born April 25, 1990 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who has been under contract with Barys Nur-Sultan in the Continental Hockey League again since May 2019 .

Career

Leonid Metalnikow began his career at Kaszink-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk in his hometown, for whose second team he played in the third Russian league at the age of 16. During the 2010/11 season he moved to Gornjak Rudny from the Kazakh league. After he was back on the ice in 2012/13 with his home club, which now played in the Wysschaja Hockey League , he first played in the domestic league the following year at HK Ertis Pavlodar , who became Kazakh champions at the end of the season . Metalnikow left the club before the playoffs and returned to the Vysschaya Hockey League, where he played the season at Yuzhny Ural Orsk to the end. From 2014 he played again for Kaszink-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk in the Vysschaja Hockey League before moving to Barys Astana from the Continental Hockey League in December 2015 . For Barys, however, he only appeared in four games and spent the rest of the season with Nomad Astana , the Barys farm team. Since 2016 he has been playing his regular club Torpedo in the Wysschaja Hockey League again.

In the 2018/19 season he played for HK Saryarka Karaganda in the Wysschaja Hockey League. At the end of the season he won the league's championship trophy , the Bratina Cup, with Saryarka . He was also named the best defender of the season.

International

For Kazakhstan , Metalnikow took part in the junior division at the U18 world championships in Division I in 2007 and 2008 , when he was the top scorer among the defenders, and in the U20 division in the world championships in the top division in 2009 and in division I in 2010 . He also played for the Kazakh student selection at the 2013 Winter Universiade in Trentino, Italy , where he won the silver medal behind the Canadian selection.

In 2015 he was appointed to the senior national team for the first time and immediately rose with the team at the World Cup in Division I as a tournament winner in the top division. After the Kazakhs could not hold out there without Metalnikov, he played again in Division I at the 2018 World Cup . A year later , he was promoted from Division I to the top division with the national team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 silver medal at the Winter Universiade
• 2015 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2019 Bratina Cup win with HK Saryarka Karaganda
• 2019 Best Defender of the Vysschaya Hockey League
• 2019 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.
• 2019 All-Star Team of the World Championship Division I, Group A.

Web links

• Leonid Metalnikow at eliteprospects.com (English)