Michail Michailowitsch Warnakow

Mikhail Warnakov
Date of birth	March 1, 1985
place of birth	Gorky , Russian SFSR
size	178 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	striker
number	# 18
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2002	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2002-2003	HK Dynamo Moscow
2003-2013	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2013	SKA Saint Petersburg
2013-2017	Ak Bars Kazan
2017-2018	HK Dynamo Moscow
since 2018	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod

Michail Michailowitsch Warnakow ( Russian Михаил Михайлович Варнаков ; born March 1, 1985 in Gorky , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod from the Continental Hockey League since 2018 . His father Mikhail was also a hockey player.

Career

Mikhail Warnakov began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior division of Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod , for whose second team he was initially active in the 2001/02 season in the third-rate Pervaya League . He then moved to the youth department of HK Dynamo Moscow , but came in the 2002/03 season there only for Dynamo's second team in the Pervaya League for use, whereupon he returned to Nizhny Novgorod. In the 2003/04 season , the attacker was able to prevail in the professional team of Torpedo in the Super League , but had to accept relegation to the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, with his team .

In the Wysschaja Liga, Warnakow developed into one of the leading players at Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and he finally reached promotion to the Superliga in the 2006/07 season with his team as the second division champions. After another Super League season, he has been playing with Torpedo in the newly founded Continental Hockey League since the 2008/09 season . In the KHL, too, he was able to underpin his leadership role in the team and scored an average of every three games in his first three KHL seasons.

During the 2012/13 season, he became a top performer within his team and was invited to the 2013 KHL All-Star Game . At the end of January 2013, after Torpedo had no chance of reaching the play-offs, Warnakov was given to the SKA Saint Petersburg . For the SKA he scored 12 points in 19 KHL games by the end of the season and was named KHL striker of the month for February. In June 2013 he was signed by Ak Bars Kazan .

International

For Russia , Warnakov took part in the Euro Hockey Tour in 2010 . He remained pointless and punished in two games.

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 Champion of the Vysschaya League and promotion to the Super League with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
• 2013 KHL All-Star Game
• 2013 KHL striker of the month February
• 2015 KHL striker of the month January

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	11	555	175	143	318	364
Playoffs	8th	77	20th	17th	37	22nd

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

Commons : Michail Warnakow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Michail Warnakow at eliteprospects.com (English)