Oleksandr Hodynjuk

Oleksandr Hodynjuk
Date of birth	January 27, 1970
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
size	185 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1990 , 6th round, 115th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
until 1991	Sokil Kiev
1991-1992	Toronto Maple Leafs
1992-1993	Calgary Flames
1993	Florida panthers
1993-1997	Hartford Whalers
1997-1998	Chicago Wolves
1998-1999	SC Bern
1999-2001	Polar bears Berlin

Oleksandr Hodynjuk
Coaching stations
2001-2002	Greensboro Generals
since 2011	Federazija chokeju Ukraiiny

Oleksandr Olehowytsch Hodynjuk ( Ukrainian Олександр Олегович Годинюк , Russian Александр Олегович Годынюк Alexander Olegovich Godynjuk * 27. January 1970 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian hockey player and current - trainer , who during his playing career from 1986 to 2001 has played 223 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Calgary Flames , Florida Panthers and Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League on the position of defender .

Career

Hodynjuk came from the junior academy of Sokil Kiev . For the men's team he played in the Wysschaja League until the fall of the Iron Curtain . A year earlier, the defender was selected in the sixth round in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft in 115th place by the Toronto Maple Leafs .

The Leafs brought the Ukrainian to North America during the 1990/91 season , where he quickly prevailed. After almost a year in the Canadian metropolis, he became part of a large transfer business. Together with Craig Berube , Gary Leeman , Michel Petit and Jeff Reese , Hodynjuk switched to the Calgary Flames , who received Doug Gilmour , Jamie Macoun , Ric Nattress , Rick Wamsley and Kent Manderville as compensation. The engagement in Calgary did not last long for the defender. After the end of the 1992/93 season , the Flames left him unprotected for the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft , which made him selected by the newly formed Florida Panthers .

The Panthers were unimpressed by their acquisition and exchanged it in December 1993 for Jim McKenzie of the Hartford Whalers . The defense attorney eventually settled there for a longer period of time. Another transfer took place in the summer of 1997. Together with a six- round suffrage in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft , Hodynjuk left the team in the direction of St. Louis Blues . The Carolina Hurricanes - the name of the franchise that took over the business of the Whalers that summer - received Steve Leach for it . The Blues immediately pushed the defensive player into the International Hockey League , where he and their farm team Chicago Wolves won the Turner Cup at the end of the season.

Then Hodynjuk returned to Europe. First he spent a season at SC Bern in the Swiss National League . From 1999 to 2001 he played for the Eisbären Berlin in the German Ice Hockey League . On October 10, 2001, he officially ended his active career.

Immediately afterwards, Hodynjuk took over for the 2001/02 season the assistant coach position with the Greensboro Generals from the East Coast Hockey League . There he was promoted to head coach in February 2002 after Graeme Townshend was fired. After the end of the season he held no such position until 2011, before the Ukrainian ice hockey association Federazija chokeju Ukraiiny signed him . There he was in charge of the U18 team until after the U18 Junior World Championship in 2012 . In the same year he also took over the support of the U20 selection, which was only interrupted by the interim promotion to head coach of the men's national team as part of the 2015 World Cup . At the same time, he also looked after the Russian second division club HK Sokol Krasnoyarsk in the 2015/16 season .

International

As a player, Hodynjuk initially ran for the junior national team of the USSR . He was active for the team at the U18 European Junior Championships in 1987 and 1988 and the World Junior Championships in 1989 and 1990 . In all four tournaments, Hodynjuk won a medal - crowned by winning the junior world championship title in 1989. In addition, the native Ukrainian received numerous individual awards, including the election of the best defender of the tournament at the European championship in 1987 and the world championship in 1990. In the same year he was also appointed to the World Cup All-Star Team.

In the men's area, Hodynjuk was only active for his native Ukraine . For the first time he represented the Ukrainian national team in November 1998 in qualifying for the 1999 World Cup , which also succeeded. At the World Cup tournament in May 1999, Hodynjuk also ran for the national team.

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 Turner Cup win with the Chicago Wolves

International

1987 bronze medal at the U18 European Junior Championship 1987 Best defender of the U18 European Junior Championship 1988 bronze medal at the U18 European Junior Championship 1989 gold medal at the Junior World Championship

1990 silver medal at the Junior World Championship 1990 Best Defender of the Junior World Championship 1990 All-Star Team of the Junior World Championship 2012 Promotion to Group B of Division I at the U20 World Junior Championship of Division II, Group A (as head coach)

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL: Regular season	7th	223	10	39	49	224
NHL: playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
DEL: main round	2	84	11	25th	36	54
DEL: playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Oleksandr Hodynjuk at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Oleksandr Hodynjuk at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Oleksandr Hodynjuk at hockeydb.com (English)