Oleksandr Karaulshchuk

Oleksandr Karaulshchuk
Date of birth	July 27, 1983
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
size	185 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2001	HK Kiev
2001-2004	Erie Otters
2004-2005	Fjord du Saguenay Molot-Prikamje Perm Kajaanin Hokki
2005-2006	Molot-Prikamje Perm Neftyanik Leninogorsk
2006-2007	HK Metschel Chelyabinsk
2007-2009	HK Sokil Kiev
2009-2010	HK Vitebsk
2010-2011	HK Metschel Chelyabinsk
2011	HK Kompanjon-Naftohas Kiev
2011-2013	HK Berkut
2013-2014	HK Bilyj Bars Bila Tserkwa
2014-2016	HK Generals Kiev
2016-2017	HK Krywbass

Oleksandr Volodymyrowytsch Karaulschtschuk ( Ukrainian Олександр Володимирович Караульщук ; born July 27, 1983 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian ice hockey player who became Ukrainian champion with HK Sokil Kiev in 2009 .

Career

Oleksandr Karaulschtschuk began his career as a hockey player at HK Kiev , for which he was active from 2000 to 2001 in the East European Hockey League . After him, the Erie Otters the 2001 CHL Import Draft had selected in the first round as a total of 47 players, he moved to the club from Pennsylvania, with whom he the 2002 J. Ross Robertson Cup , the champion trophy of the Ontario Hockey League , could win . After three years with the Otters, he moved to Fjord du Saguenay , for which he only played a few games in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey before returning to Europe. After a few games for the Russian Super League newcomer Molot-Prikamje Perm , he changed clubs in quick succession, being active in his Ukrainian homeland as well as in Finland, Russia and Belarus. Only for HK Sokil Kiev , with whom he played in the second-rate Russian Vysschaya Hockey League and the Ukrainian league from 2007 to 2009 , and HK Generals Kiev from the Ukrainian league, he was active for two full seasons. With HK Sokil he won the Ukrainian championship in 2008 and 2009 . In the 2016/17 season he ended his career at HK Krywbass .

International

For Ukraine, Karaulschtschuk took part in the junior division in the U18 World Championships in 2000 and 2001 and the U20 World Cup in Division I in 2001 .

At senior level he was only at the 2008 World Championship in Division I and in the qualification for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 in the line-up of his country .

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 J. Ross Robertson Cup won with the Erie Otters
• 2008 Ukrainian champion with HK Sokil Kiev
• 2009 Ukrainian champion with HK Sokil Kiev

Web links

• Oleksandr Karaulschtschuk at eurohockey.com
• Oleksandr Karaulschtschuk at eliteprospects.com (English)