Oleksiy Ponikarowskyj

Oleksiy Ponikarowskyj
Date of birth	April 9, 1980
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
size	193 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 23
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1998 , 4th round, 87th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
until 1999	HK Dynamo Moscow
1999-2000	THK Tver
2000	HK Dynamo Moscow
2004-2005	Chimik Voskressensk
2000-2010	Toronto Maple Leafs
2010	Pittsburgh Penguins
2010-2011	Los Angeles Kings
2011–2012	Carolina Hurricanes
2012-2013	New Jersey Devils
2012	HK Donbass Donetsk
2013-2016	SKA Saint Petersburg
since 2016	Kunlun Red Star

Oleksiy Wolodymyrowytsch Ponikarowskyj ( Ukrainian Олексій Володимирович Понікаровський , Russian Алексей Владимирович Поникаровский Alexei Vladimirovich Ponikarowski * 9. April 1980 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Canadian - Ukrainian - Russian hockey player , the last 2,016 to 2,018 at Kunlun Red Star in the Continental Hockey League was under contract.

Career

Born in Kiev , Ukraine , Ponikarowskyj played until 1999 - in addition to a few appearances for city rival Krylja Sowetow Moscow - exclusively at HK Dynamo Moscow . About the youth teams first in the second team in the third class Pervaya League and second class Wysschaja Liga , then later in the first team in the Super League . In the 1998 NHL Entry Draft , the Ukrainian was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the fourth round in 87th position . The striker spent the 1999/2000 season at THK Tver in the Wysschaja Liga, but returned to Dynamo before the end of the season. With the team he won the Russian championship at the end of the season and also played in the European Hockey League .

For the 2000/01 season , the player moved to North America and in the first three years came mainly for Toronto's farm team , the St. John's Maple Leafs , in the American Hockey League . From the 2003/04 season , the winger became a regular with the Maple Leafs. In his first full season Ponikarowskyj completed 73 games and scored 28 points scorer . In addition, he was used in 13 playoff games, in which he scored four more points. The NHL season 2004/05 failed due to a lockout , he spent at the Russian club Chimik Voskressensk .

Ponikarowskyj in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey

After the lockout, Ponikarowskyj had his statistically most successful season in the 2008/09 season; The Power Forward scored 23 goals and 38 assists in 82 games . The Toronto Maple Leafs could, as in the previous three seasons, not qualify for the play-offs again. After ten years with the Maple Leafs, the player was given to the Pittsburgh Penguins in March 2010 , while the Maple Leafs received Martin Škoula and Luca Caputi in return . With the Penguins Ponikarowskyj was used in 16 games of the regular season. In addition, he completed eleven play-off games for the Penguins before the team lost to the Montreal Canadiens in the Eastern Conference semifinals .

His expiring contract was not renewed, whereupon he signed a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings in July 2010 as a free agent . After Ponikarowskyj had completed 61 games for the Kings, this contract was not renewed. On July 1, 2011 Ponikarowskyj signed a contract - again for a season - with the Carolina Hurricanes .

These transferred him on January 20, 2012 in exchange for Joe Sova and a four-round vote in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft to the New Jersey Devils . As a free agent, he signed a one-year contract with the Winnipeg Jets in July 2012 . Due to the NHL lockout Ponikarowskyj played between September and December 2012 for HK Donbass Donetsk in the Continental Hockey League . After two goals in twelve games, he was handed over to the New Jersey Devils in February 2013 by the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for two draft picks in 2013 and 2014.

Alexei Ponikarovsky in the Kunlun Red Star jersey , December 2017

Between August 2013 and 2016 Ponikarowskyj was under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg from the Continental Hockey League. In August 2013 he received Russian citizenship in addition to Canadian and Ukrainian citizenship in order not to fall under the quota of foreigners in the KHL.

In April 2015 he won the Gagarin Cup with the SKA . He then played for two years for the Chinese KHL participant Kunlun Red Star , where he was team captain in the 2017/18 season.

International

Ponikarowskyj represented his native Ukraine at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . In four tournament games, he scored one goal in the last group game against France and prepared another one beforehand in the game against Switzerland . In addition, at the end of the tournament there were six penalty minutes and a balanced plus / minus balance for the striker.

Achievements and Awards

• 2000 Russian champion with HK Dynamo Moscow
• 2015 Gagarin Cup won with SKA Saint Petersburg

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1996/97	HK Dynamo Moscow II	Pervaya League		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	HK Dynamo Moscow II	Vysschaya League		24	1	2	3	30th		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Krylya Sovetov Moscow	Super league		13	2	1	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
	HK Dynamo Moscow II	Vysschaya League		28	12	3	15th	32		-	-	-	-	-
	HK Dynamo Moscow	Super league		-	-	-	-	-		3	0	0	0	2
1999/00	HK Dynamo Moscow	Super league		19th	1	0	1	8th		1	0	0	0	0
	THK Tver	Vysschaya League		29	8th	14th	22nd	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		22nd	1	3	4th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		49	12	24	36	44		4th	0	0	0	4th
2001/02	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		72	21st	27	74	19th		5	2	1	3	8th
	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		8th	2	0	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		63	24	22nd	46	68		-	-	-	-	-
	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		13	0	3	3	11		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		73	9	19th	28	44		13	1	3	4th	8th
2004/05	Chimik Voskressensk	Super league		19th	1	5	6th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		81	21st	17th	38	68		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		71	21st	24	45	63		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		66	18th	17th	35	36		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		82	23	38	61	38		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		61	19th	22nd	41	44		-	-	-	-	-
	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		16	2	7th	9	17th		11	1	4th	5	4th
2010/11	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		61	5	10	15th	36		4th	1	0	1	0
2011/12	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		49	7th	8th	15th	26th		-	-	-	-	-
	New Jersey Devils	NHL		33	7th	11	18th	8th		24	1	8th	9	12
2012/13	HK Donbass Donetsk	KHL		32	5	13	18th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		12	2	0	2	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	New Jersey Devils	NHL		30th	2	5	7th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		51	6th	9	15th	38		10	1	1	2	4th
2014/15	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		32	2	6th	8th	24		9	1	0	1	4th
2015/16	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		40	3	1	4th	30th		3	0	0	0	0
2016/17	Kunlun Red Star	KHL		52	7th	7th	14th	34		5	0	1	1	0
2017/18	Kunlun Red Star	KHL		51	6th	7th	13	20th		-	-	-	-	-
Wysschaja League overall				81	21st	19th	40	88		-	-	-	-	-
Super league overall				51	4th	6th	10	26th		4th	0	0	0	2
AHL total				184	57	73	130	186		9	2	1	3	12
NHL overall				678	139	184	323	419		62	4th	15th	19th	28
KHL total				256	29	43	72	162		27	2	2	4th	8th

International

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002	Ukraine	Olympia		4th	1	1	2	6th
2013	Ukraine	Olympic qualification		3	2	3	5	0
Men overall				7th	3	4th	7th	6th

( 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 : Oleksij Ponikarowskyj  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Oleksij Ponikarowskyj at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Oleksij Ponikarowskyj at eurohockey.com
• Oleksij Ponikarowskyj at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nhl.com, Ponikarovsky happy to be back in a familiar place
2. ↑ Хоккеист Поникаровский получил российский паспорт - президент СКА. In: rsport.ria.ru. August 29, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .