Nail Railowitsch Jakupow
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 .
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
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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 | |||||||||||||
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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:
- Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010
- U18 Junior World Championship 2011
- U20 Junior World Championship 2012
- U20 Junior World Championship 2013
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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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
- 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).
Goalkeeper:
Yevgeny Alikin |
Yevgeny Kisselev |
Marek Langhamer
Defender:
Nikita Alexandrow |
Maxim Ignatovich |
Michal Jordán |
Nikita Kamalov |
Gleb Koryagin |
Dominik Mašín |
Pavel Medvedev |
Yuri Sergiyenko |
Sergei Tereshchenko |
Pawel Turbin |
Valery Vasilyev
attacker:
Vladimir Butuzov |
Danil Faisullin |
Mikita Feaktystau |
Denis Golubew |
Alexander Gopiyenko |
Alexander Gorshkov |
Nail Yakupov |
Nikita Jaskow |
Maxim Kapiturov |
Stanislaw Kazuba |
Alexander Kuznetsov |
Valentin Pyanov |
Alexander Polunin |
Kirill Rasskasow |
Artyom Sheleskov |
Vyacheslav Uschenin |
Vladislav Uschenin |
Hynek Zohorna |
Tomáš Zohorna
Head coach: Alexander Guljawzew Assistant coach: Alexander Judin | Pavel Torgayev General Manager: Alexander Filippenko
personal data | |
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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 |