Oļegs Sorokins

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LatviaLatvia  Oļegs Sorokins Ice hockey player
Date of birth 4th January 1974
place of birth Riga , Latvian SSR
size 178 cm
Weight 80 kg
position defender
number # 28
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1991-1995 HK Pardaugava Riga
1995-1996 Juniors Riga
1996-1997 Quad City Mallards
Utica Blizzard
1997-1998 Hermes Kokkola
1998-2000 Vaasan Sport
2000-2001 HC Slovan Bratislava
2001-2002 Molot-Prikamje Perm
2002 HK Riga 2000
2002-2005 Ässät Pori
2005 HK Riga 2000
2005-2006 EHC Black Wings Linz
2006-2007 Södertälje SK
2007-2008 Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Friborg-Gottéron
Frederikshavn White Hawks
2008 HK Riga 2000
2008-2010 Dinamo Riga
2010-2011 WSV Sterzing Broncos
2011-2013 SMScredit.lv
2012 HK Saryarka Karaganda
2014-2016 HK Mogo
LatviaLatvia  Oļegs Sorokins
Coaching stations
2012-2013 SMScredit.lv
2014-2018 HK Mogo
2015-2018 Venta 2002
since 2017 U18 national team Latvia
since 2018 HS Riga

Oļegs Sorokins (born January 4, 1974 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Latvian ice hockey player who has worked as a coach since retiring. He has been the head coach of the Latvian U18 national youth team since 2017. In the course of his career he played in a variety of European and North American leagues, including Dinamo Riga in the Continental Hockey League , Ässät Pori in the Finnish SM-liiga and Metallurg Novokusnezk , Friborg-Gottéron and HC Slovan Bratislava .

Career

Oļegs Sorokins began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at HK Pardaugava Riga , for which he was active from 1991 to 1995 in the Latvian ice hockey league and the Russian super league. The defender then spent a season at Juniors Riga in the East European Hockey League . During the 1996/97 season he was under contract exclusively in North America , where he ran up for the Jacksonville Lizard Kings and Roanoke Express in the East Coast Hockey League , and the Quad City Mallards and Utica Blizzard in the Colonial Hockey League . He bridged the summer break with the Empire State Cobras from the professional inline hockey league Roller Hockey International .

After Sorokins had started the 1997/98 season at his ex-club Juniors Riga in EEHL, he played for the Finnish teams Hermes Kokkola and Vaasan Sport in the then second-class I divisioona for the next three years . This was followed by a season each at HC Slovan Bratislava in the Slovak Extra League and Molot-Prikamje Perm in the Russian Super League . The 2002/03 season began Sorokins at HK Riga 2000 , before he ran up in the following three seasons for Ässät Pori from the Finnish SM-liiga . The 2005/06 season began the Latvian again at HK Riga 2000, with which he competed in the Belarusian extra league. After only 15 games in which he scored a goal and prepared three more, he signed a contract with EHC Black Wings Linz , for which he was initially on the ice in the Austrian ice hockey league the following year .

In November 2006 Sorokins moved to Södertälje SK in HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division. With his club he reached promotion to the Elitserien , but again did not stay for a long time with a club and played in the 2007/08 season for Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the Russian Super League, Friborg-Gottéron in the Swiss National League A and Frederikshavn White Hawks in the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen . For the 2008/09 season , the 2002 Olympian was signed by Dinamo Riga from the newly founded Continental Hockey League , but he also made four appearances for its farm team, HK Riga 2000, in the Belarusian Extra League .

In October 2010 he moved to WSV Sterzing Broncos from the Italian A2 series . With the Sterzinger Broncos he won the Serie A2 championship at the end of the season and thus rose to the first-class Serie A , but left the club after this success. In the following season he was initially active in his Latvian homeland for SMScredit.lv before he was committed in January 2012 by HK Saryarka Karaganda from the Kazakh ice hockey championship and collected 7 scorer points in 16 games. In the 2012/13 season he worked as a player-coach at SMScredit.lv from the Latvian ice hockey league and won the Latvian championship with the club at the end of the season. After the end of the season, the main sponsor of the club withdrew, so that this stopped the game.

In the 2013/14 season Sorokins was without a club before he joined the HK Mogo as a player and assistant coach for the 2014/15 season. With the HK Mogo he won his third championship title in 2015. Between 2015 and 2018 he was the head coach of HK Mogo and also played a few games for the club and for Venta in 2002 in the second-class 1st division. In 2017 he finally ended his career and became the head coach of the Latvian U18 national junior team. With this he made it back to the top division at the World Cup of Division I 2018 , a year later he finished eighth with the U18 national team. Since 2018 he has been looking after various teams at the HS Riga ice hockey school .

International

For the Latvian junior national team , Sorokins took part in the Junior C World Championship in 1994 , in which the Latvian juniors took just second place behind Slovakia and thus missed promotion to the B World Cup.

He made his debut for the Latvian men's national team in March 1995 , but was not used regularly until the early 2000s. He played for the national team at the 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2007 and 2009 World Championships . He was also in the Latvian squad at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and qualifying for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver .

In total, Sorokins has completed 127 international matches, in which he scored 6 goals and prepared 28 more.

Achievements and Awards

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
1991/92 HK Pardaugava Riga II Latvia 6th 3 7th 10 4th - - - - -
1992/93 HK Pardaugava Riga II Latvia 18th 11 13 24 6th - - - - -
1993/94 HK Pardaugava Riga MHL 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1993/94 Hokeja Centrs Riga Latvia 21st 9 13 22nd 20th 3 0 1 1 4th
1994/95 HK Pardaugava Riga MHL 37 1 4th 5 8th - - - - -
1995/96 Juniors Riga EEHL 38 9 28 37 22nd - - - - -
1996/97 Quad City Mallards UHL 39 2 18th 20th 10 - - - - -
1996/97 Jacksonville Lizard Kings ECHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1996/97 Utica Blizzard UHL 8th 0 6th 6th 2 - - - - -
1996/97 Roanoke Express ECHL 3 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1997/98 Juniors Riga EEHL 20th 5 11 16 16 - - - - -
1997/98 Hermes I-divisioona 18th 1 9 10 12 8th 2 2 4th 4th
1998/99 Hermes I-divisioona 13 1 2 3 12 - - - - -
1998/99 Vaasan Sport I-divisioona 35 9 13 22nd 34 7th 2 0 2 8th
1999/00 Vaasan Sport I-divisioona 43 7th 17th 24 69 7th 3 3 6th 2
2000/01 HC Slovan Bratislava Extraliga (Sk) 54 5 18th 23 30th 8th 1 1 2 4th
2001/02 Molot-Prikamje Perm Super league 45 0 5 5 40 - - - - -
2002/03 HK Riga 2000 EEHL 14th 7th 7th 14th 2 - - - - -
2002/03 HK Riga 2000 Latvia 2 3 5 6th - - - - -
2002/03 Ässät SM-liiga 34 5 7th 12 20th - - - - -
2003/04 Ässät SM-liiga 37 6th 11 17th 24 - - - - -
2004/05 Ässät SM-liiga 55 3 15th 18th 48 2 0 0 0 0
2005/06 HK Riga 2000 Extraliga (BLR) 15th 1 3 4th 12 - - - - -
2005/06 EHC Linz ÖEHL 29 3 6th 9 18th - - - - -
2006/07 EHC Linz ÖEHL 9 1 2 3 8th - - - - -
2006/07 Södertälje SK Allsvenskan 30th 3 14th 17th 26th 10 kv 1 6th 7th 14th
2007/08 Metallurg Novokuznetsk Super league 15th 0 5 5 22nd - - - - -
2007/08 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 6th 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
2007/08 Frederikshavn White Hawks AL-Bank Ligaen 19th 3 11 14th 18th 18th 4th 8th 12 32
2008/09 Dinamo Riga KHL 29 0 6th 6th 44 1 0 0 0 0
2008/09 HK Riga 2000 Extraliga (BLR) 4th 0 2 2 10 - - - - -
2009/10 Dinamo Riga KHL 50 4th 13 17th 44 9 1 2 3 8th
2010/11 WSV Sterzing Broncos A2 series 28 0 16 16 24 13 3 12 15th 8th
2011/12 SMScredit.lv Latvia 5 3 6th 9 8th - - - - -
2011/12 HK Saryarka Karaganda Kazakhstan 5 1 3 4th 14th 10 0 3 3 6th
2012/13 SMScredit.lv Latvia 24 8th 19th 27 32 - - - - -
2013/14 not played
2014/15 HK Mogo Latvia 20th 4th 23 27 18th 10 2 9 11 12
2015/16 HK Mogo Latvia 3 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
2016/17 HK Venta 2002 Ventspils 1st League 2 0 2 2 10 3 1 3 4th 2
SM-liiga total 126 14th 33 47 92 2 0 0 0 0

Kv Kvalserien - qualifying round for the Elitserien

International

Represented Latvia at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM +/-
1994 Latvia U20-C-WM 4th 2 5 7th 4th
2001 Latvia Olympic qualification 3 0 0 0 4th 0
2001 Latvia WM 6th 0 0 0 0 -1
2002 Latvia Olympia 4th 0 2 2 4th 0
2002 Latvia WM 6th 0 2 2 4th +3
2003 Latvia WM 6th 1 3 4th 2 +2
2004 Latvia WM 7th 0 2 2 2 +2
2005 Latvia WM 6th 0 0 0 4th +3
2007 Latvia WM 6th 2 4th 6th 6th +2
2009 Latvia WM 5 0 0 0 2 -2
2009 Latvia Olympic qualification 3 0 2 2 2 +1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linz almost got the team for next season. In: hockeyfans.at. January 15, 2006, accessed April 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan - Sorokins signs contract. In: broncos.it. October 7, 2010, accessed April 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Krefeld Pinguine: Vasiljevs becomes assistant coach of the Latvian U18s. In: rp-online.de. July 5, 2017, accessed April 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Latvijas valstsvienības visu laiku rezultatīvākie spēlētāji (1991 - February 8, 2019) (PDF file)
personal data
SURNAME Sorokins, Oļegs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sorokins, Olegs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR