Sergei Anatolyevich Korostin

Sergei Korostin
Date of birth	5th July 1989
place of birth	Prokopyevsk , Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 3rd round, 64th position Dallas Stars
Career stations
until 2007	HK Dynamo Moscow
2007-2008	Texas tornado
2008	London Knights
2008-2009	Peterborough Petes
2009-2010	Texas Stars
2010-2011	HK Dynamo Tver
since 2011	HK Sokol Krasnoyarsk

Sergei Anatoljewitsch Korostin ( Russian Сергей Анатольевич Коростин ; born July 5, 1989 in Prokopjewsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Sokol Krasnoyarsk in the Vysschaja Hockey League since 2011 .

Career

Sergei Korostin began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth division of HK Dynamo Moscow , for whose professional team he made his debut in the super league in the 2005/06 season . In this and the following two seasons, however, the attacker could not prevail against the capital city. So he was mainly used for their second team in the third-class Pervaya League and only played ten games in the Super League. He remained pointless and punished. In the 2007 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the third round as the 64th player by the Dallas Stars . First, however, the left-handed shooter appeared in the 2007/08 season with Texas Tornado in the junior league North American Hockey League and the following year for the London Knights and Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey League . For the 2009/10 season , the striker was assigned to the roster of the Dallas newly established farm team Texas Stars from the American Hockey League , after he had already signed a contract in Dallas in March 2008. He also played four games for the Idaho Steelheads in the ECHL .

For the 2010/11 season Korostin was committed by HK Dynamo Tver from the Wysschaja Hockey League , the new Russian second division. He then moved to his league rivals HK Sokol Krasnoyarsk for the 2011/12 season .

International

For Russia , Korostin took part in the 2007 U18 Junior World Championship and the 2009 U20 Junior World Championship .

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 gold medal at the U18 World Junior Championship
• 2009 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
AHL regular season	1	63	13	12	25th	41
AHL playoffs	1	2	0	0	0	0
ECHL regular season	1	4th	4th	2	6th	2
ECHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL regular season	1	49	13	23	36	33
OHL playoffs	1	4th	1	2	3	0

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Sergei Korostin at hockeydb.com (English)
• Sergei Korostin at eurohockey.com
• Sergei Korostin at eliteprospects.com (English)