Mikhail Stefanovich

Mikhail Stefanovich
Date of birth	November 27, 1989
place of birth	Minsk , Belarusian SSR
size	188 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 4th round, 98th position Toronto Maple Leafs
KHL Junior Draft	2009 , 1st round, 2nd position HK Dinamo Minsk
Career stations
until 2004	HK Dinamo Minsk
2004-2007	HK Homel
2007-2010	Québec Remparts
2010-2011	HK Dinamo Minsk
2011-2013	HK Homel
2013	Toros Neftekamsk
2013-2014	HK Lada Tolyatti
2014-2015	Disel Pensa
2015-2016	Rapid City Rush
2016-2018	HK Nyoman Hrodna
2018-2019	HK Junost Minsk
since 2019	HK Dinamo Minsk

Mikhail Iharawitsch Stefanowitsch ( Belarusian Міхаіл Ігаравіч Стэфановіч , Russian Михаил Игоревич Стефанович / Mikhail Igorevich Stefanowitsch * 27. November 1989 in Minsk , Byelorussian SSR ) is a Belarusian ice hockey player who since 2019 again at HC Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL ) plays.

Career

Michail Stefanowitsch began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HK Dinamo Minsk , where he was active until 2004. The attacker then moved to HK Homel , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Belarusian extra league in the 2006/07 season . He also won the national cup competition with his team this season. After the right-shooter began the following season in Gomel, he left the club after just one use and joined the Québec Remparts from the Canadian junior league QMJHL , for which he played until 2010. These had drawn him 54th place in the 2007 CHL Import Draft . In June 2009 he received an entry-level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs , who had drawn him the year before in the NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round as a total of 98th player, but remained in the roster of the Remparts. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season he played a few games for the Reading Royals from the ECHL and the Toronto Marlies from the American Hockey League before the Maple Leafs loaned him to HK Dinamo Minsk in November, which made his interest in Stefanowitsch clear had that he had selected him as his first pick in the KHL Junior Draft 2009 in a total of second position in the draft.

In January, his NHL transfer rights were transferred to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Fabian Brunnström . After two years in Minsk, he returned to HK Homel for two years in 2011, with whom he won the Belarusian cup competition in 2012 . In the 2013/14 season he first played a few games for Toros Neftekamsk in the Vysschaja Hockey League before he went to league competitor HK Lada Tolyatti in November . Before the 2014/15 season , he moved to Disel Pensa within the Wysschaja Hockey League . In November 2014 he was temporarily banned by RUSADA after missing a doping test. In April 2015, he received a two-year doping ban for Russia, the start of which was dated November 10, 2014.

Due to the suspension, he returned to North America in the summer of 2015, where he played for the Rapid City Rush in the ECHL . It only lasted a year there and has been back in Belarus since 2016. Between 2016 and 2018 he was for the extra league club HK Njoman Hrodna , with whom he was Belarusian champion in 2017 and 2018 . The following season he moved within the Extraliga to HK Junost Minsk , for which he scored 67 scorer points in 69 games by the end of the season. With 32 goals and 57 scorer points, he was also the top scorer and top scorer in the Extraliga main round and was consequently named the best striker in the league. At the end of the season he won another championship title with Junost Minsk and received another contract with HK Dinamo Minsk in the KHL due to the performance shown.

International

For Belarus, Stefanowitsch took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championship in Division I 2007 and the U18 World Junior Championship in the top division in 2006 . Furthermore, he was in his country's squad at the U20 Junior World Championships in Division I in 2008 and 2009 , as well as at the U20 Junior World Championships in the Top Division in 2007 .

In the senior division he played for Belarus at the World Championships in the top division in 2009 , 2010 , 2013 and 2017 . In addition, he represented his colors in the Olympic qualification for the Winter Games in Sochi 2014 , in which the Belarus team missed an Olympic starting place.

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 Belarusian cup winner with the HK Homel
• 2008 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2008 Michael Bossy Trophy
• 2011 KHL Rookie of the Month for February
• 2013 Belarusian cup winner with the HK Homel
• 2017 Belarusian champion with HK Njoman Hrodna
• 2018 Belarusian champion with HK Njoman Hrodna
• 2019 Belarusian champion with the HK Junost Minsk
• 2019 striker of the year of the Belarusian extra league
• 2019 top scorer (32) and top scorer (57) in the Belarusian extra league

International

• 2007 Promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship of Division I, Group A.
• 2007 Top scorer and top scorer of the U18 Junior World Championship in Division I, Group A.

Career statistics

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Club competitions

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Dinamo Minsk II	Vysschaya League		19th	3	7th	10	8th
2004/05	HK Homel II	Vysschaya League		14th	3	0	3	6th
2005/06	HK Homel II	Vysschaya League		37	18th	12	30th	64
2006/07	HK Homel	Extra league		41	16	9	25th	43		5	1	0	1	2
2006/07	HK Homel II	Vysschaya League		3	3	1	4th	4th
2007/08	HK Homel	Extra league		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		62	32	34	66	32		11	4th	4th	8th	10
2008/09	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		56	49	27	76	17th		17th	11	5	16	6th
2009/10	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		53	25th	43	68	24		8th	3	9	12	0
2010/11	Reading Royals	ECHL		4th	3	2	5	2		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Toronto Marlies	AHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		21st	1	0	1	4th		4th	1	1	2	0
2011/12	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		5	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	HK Homel	Extra league		39	25th	20th	45	40		8th	6th	1	7th	31
2012/13	HK Homel	Extra league		49	17th	29	46	14th		5	0	1	1	4th
2013/14	Toros Neftekamsk	WysHL		14th	3	2	5	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HK Lada Tolyatti	WysHL		24	7th	4th	11	4th		5	2	1	3	4th
2014/15	Disel Pensa	WysHL		12	3	3	6th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Rapid City Rush	ECHL		52	19th	11	30th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	HK Nyoman Hrodna	Extra league		26th	8th	10	18th	12		12	8th	3	11	6th
2017/18	HK Nyoman Hrodna	Extra league		40	24	17th	41	20th		16	4th	3	7th	8th
2018/19	HK Junost Minsk	Extra league		56	32	25th	57	22nd		13	7th	3	10	10
2019/20	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL
Extraliga overall				251	122	110	232	151		59	26th	12	38	59
KHL total				26th	1	0	1	6th		4th	1	1	2	0
LHJMQ total				171	106	104	210	73		36	18th	18th	36	16

International

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2006	Belarus	U18 World Cup	9th place		6th	2	4th	6th	24	-2
2007	Belarus	U18 World Championship Div. I.	11th place		5	9	3	12	16	+4
2007	Belarus	U20 World Cup	10th place		6th	4th	1	5	8th	-2
2008	Belarus	U20 World Cup Div. I.	14th place		5	3	1	4th	2	+2
2009	Belarus	U20 World Cup Div. I.	13th place		5	4th	2	6th	4th	+5
2009	Belarus	WM	8th place		4th	0	0	0	0	0
2010	Belarus	WM	10th place		6th	2	0	2	2	0
2013	Belarus	Olympic torment.	2nd place		3	1	0	1	0	+1
2013	Belarus	WM	14th place		6th	0	0	0	2	-1
2017	Belarus	WM	13th place		7th	0	4th	4th	0	-1
Juniors overall					27	22nd	11	33	54	+7
Men overall					26th	3	4th	7th	4th	-1

Web links

• Michail Stefanowitsch at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roster Trimmed By 12 Roster. In: nhl.com. September 23, 2010, accessed on September 17, 2019 . 
2. ^ Stars trade Fabian Brunnstrom to Toronto. In: espn.com. January 13, 2011, accessed September 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Russian athlete (hockey) provisionally suspended ( memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), November 20, 2014
4. ^ Ex-NHL product Stefanovich gets doping ban. In: espn.com. April 27, 2015, accessed on September 17, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Михаил Стефанович стал игроком команды «Юность-Минск». May 6, 2018, accessed September 17, 2019 .