Nail Railowitsch Jakupow

Russia Nail Yakupov


Date of birth	October 6, 1993
place of birth	Nizhnekamsk , Russia
size	181 cm
Weight	86 kg

position	Right wing
number	# 10
Shot hand	Left

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 1st round, 19th position in Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 1st round, 1st position Edmonton Oilers

Career stations

until 2010	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2010–2012	Sarnia Sting
2012-2013	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2013-2016	Edmonton Oilers
2016-2017	St. Louis Blues
2017-2018	Colorado Avalanche
2018-2020	SKA Saint Petersburg
since 2020	Amur Khabarovsk

Nail Railowitsch Jakupow ( Russian Наиль Раилович Якупов ; English transcription: Nail Railovich Yakupov ; born October 6, 1993 in Nizhnekamsk ) is a Russian ice hockey player of Tatar descent who has been under contract with Amur Khabarovsk in the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since June 2020 . The right winger was previously active in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Colorado Avalanche , the St. Louis Blues and the Edmonton Oilers , which included him in theNHL Entry Draft 2012 with the First Overall Draft Pick . Jakupow is considered to be one of the most disappointing overall athletes in the history of the NHL Entry Draft, so comparisons were made with Alexandre Daigle and Patrik Štefan in this regard .

Career

Jakupow comes from the youth system of Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , the club of his native city. At the age of 16 he was already playing in the club's highest youth team - Reaktor Nizhnekamsk - in the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja League . He got six points scorer in 14 games . In order to be able to fall back on the services of her youth player in the further course of his career, Neftechimik secured the rights to Jakupow for the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in the KHL Junior Draft 2010 . They picked him 19th in the first round. The talent Jakupows was also the Scouts of the Canadian Hockey League has not gone unnoticed and then the secured Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League in the Import Draft CHL 2010 also the rights to the striker. He was there in the first round in second place - only behind the Slovak Martin Marinčin - selected. At the same time, the Sting had also secured the rights to Alex Galchenyuk , a US-American of Russian descent , in the OHL Priority Selection .

Jakupow in the Edmonton Oilers training suit

In August 2010, Jakupow finally moved to North America and joined the Sarnia Sting. As a rookie , the striker completed a very successful 2010/11 OHL season . Between October 2010 and February 2011, he was voted OHL's Rookie of the Month three times . At the end of the season he was - although Sarnia clearly missed the play-offs - with 101 points the best scorer of his team and fourth-best in the entire league. This also meant that he was the best rookie scorer of the season and the best figure since Patrick Kane in the 2006/07 season . His 49 goals were also a record among all rookies. As a result, Jakupow was elected to the OHL's First All-Rookie Team at the end of the season, received the Emms Family Award as the best newcomer to the league and finally also named CHL Rookie of the Year .

Yakupov was selected in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft as the overall first by the Edmonton Oilers . In July 2012 he signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Oilers . Due to the NHL lockout, Yakupov played for Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk in the Continental Hockey League between September and December 2012 , before returning to North America at the beginning of the NHL season. After initial adjustment difficulties in his rookie year , the Russian scored eleven goals in the last 14 games of the season. Since only 33 more goals followed in 203 appearances in the following three seasons, the Oilers parted ways with him shortly before the start of the 2016/17 season . In exchange for a third-round vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft and minor league player Zach Pochiro , Yakupov moved to the St. Louis Blues to start a fresh start. After his contract expired, the Russian moved to Colorado Avalanche as a free agent in July 2017 . There he fulfilled a one-year contract, but was not tied to the team beyond that, so he had been looking for a new employer since July 2018. As a result, Yakupov returned to his Russian homeland and joined the SKA Saint Petersburg from the KHL.

After two years of his four-year contract with the SKA, Yakupov was handed over to HK Vitjas in May 2020 in exchange for Pawel Koltygin from the SKA . During the summer break, Yakupov was transferred again when he was handed over to Amur Khabarovsk in exchange for financial compensation .

International

Yakupov represented Russia at the 2011 U18 World Junior Championship and the 2012 U20 World Junior Championship . At the U18 Junior World Championship he won the bronze medal with the team. In addition, he contributed 13 scorer points in seven games and was largely responsible for winning the medal with a hat-trick in the game for the bronze medal. His two storm series partners Nikita Kutscherow and Michail Grigorenko scored 21 and 18 points respectively over the course of the tournament, making them by far the best storm series of the entire tournament. At the U20 Junior World Championships in 2012, Jakupow won another silver medal and, together with the Finn Mikael Granlund, was the best assist provider of the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

2010 OHL - Rookie of the Month for October
2011 OHL rookie of the month January
2011 OHL rookie of the month February
2011 OHL First All-Rookie Team
2011 Emms Family Award
2011 CHL Rookie of the Year

2011 OHL Player of the Month for October
2012 OHL Third All-Star Team
2012 CHL Top Draft Prospect Award
2012 KHL rookie of the month October
2013 NHL Rookie of the Month for April

International

2011 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
2012 silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
2012 Best assists in the U20 Junior World Championship (together with Mikael Granlund )
2013 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009/10	Nizhnekamsk reactor	MHL	14th	4th	2	6th	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Sarnia Sting	OHL	65	49	52	101	71	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Sarnia Sting	OHL	42	31	38	69	30th	6th	2	3	5	4th
2012/13	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL	22nd	10	8th	18th	33	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	48	17th	14th	31	24	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	63	11	13	24	36	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	81	14th	19th	33	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	60	8th	15th	23	24	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	St. Louis Blues	NHL	40	3	6th	9	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Colorado Avalanche	NHL	58	9	7th	16	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	47	23	10	33	30th	18th	4th	4th	8th	12
2019/20	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	46	10	10	20th	16	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total			107	80	90	170	101	6th	2	3	5	4th
NHL overall			350	62	74	136	142	-	-	-	-	-
KHL total			115	42	29	71	79	18th	4th	4th	8th	12

International

Represented Russia in:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Russia	Hlinka Memorial	5th place	4th	3	5	5	2
2011	Russia	U18 World Cup		7th	6th	7th	13	6th
2012	Russia	U20 World Cup		7th	0	9	9	6th
2013	Russia	U20 World Cup		7th	3	5	8th	0
Juniors overall				25th	12	23	35	14th

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Nail Jakupow - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Nail Jakupow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Mark Spector: How the Oilers got it wrong from the start with Yakupov. sportsnet.ca, March 28, 2016, accessed April 24, 2018 .
^ Marcy Di Michele: Yakupov and the Curse of the # 1 Pick. thehockeywriters.com, October 8, 2016, accessed April 24, 2018 .
^ Yakupov signs entry-level deal with Oilers. In: NHL.com. June 23, 2012, accessed August 4, 2020 .
↑ «Витязь» и СКА совершили обмен. HK Vitjas , May 8, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 (Russian).
↑ «Амур» и «Витязь" произвели обмен, в результате которого в Хабаровск переезжает 26-летний нападающий Наиль Якупов, а подмосковная команда получает денежную компенсацию. Amur Khabarovsk , June 14, 2020, accessed June 14, 2020 (Russian).

Squad of Amur Khabarovsk in the 2020/21 season

personal data
SURNAME	Jakupow, Nail Railowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Yakupov, Nail Railovich (English spelling); Якупов, Наиль Раилович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nizhnekamsk , Russia

[1] Mark Spector: How the Oilers got it wrong from the start with Yakupov. sportsnet.ca, March 28, 2016, accessed April 24, 2018 .

[2] Marcy Di Michele: Yakupov and the Curse of the # 1 Pick. thehockeywriters.com, October 8, 2016, accessed April 24, 2018 .

[3] Yakupov signs entry-level deal with Oilers. In: NHL.com. June 23, 2012, accessed August 4, 2020 .

[4] «Витязь» и СКА совершили обмен. HK Vitjas , May 8, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 (Russian).

[5] «Амур» и «Витязь" произвели обмен, в результате которого в Хабаровск переезжает 26-летний нападающий Наиль Якупов, а подмосковная команда получает денежную компенсацию. Amur Khabarovsk , June 14, 2020, accessed June 14, 2020 (Russian).