Valery Mikhailovich Selepukin

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RussiaRussia  Valery Selepukin Ice hockey player
Date of birth 17th September 1968
place of birth Voskressensk , Russian SFSR
size 183 cm
Weight 94 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1990 , 11th round, 221st position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1984-1987 Chimik Voskressensk
1987-1988 SKA MWO Kalinin
1988-1989 HK CSKA Moscow
1989-1991 Chimik Voskressensk
1991-1998 New Jersey Devils
1998 Edmonton Oilers
1998-2000 Philadelphia Flyers
2000-2001 Chicago Blackhawks
2001-2002 Norfolk Admirals
2002-2003 Ak Bars Kazan
2003-2005 SKA Saint Petersburg
2005-2006 Chimik Moskovskaya Oblast

Valery Mikhailovich Selepukin ( Russian Валерий Михайлович Зелепукин * 17th September 1968 in Voskresensk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player , who during his playing career 1984-2006 including for the New Jersey Devils , Edmonton Oilers , Philadelphia Flyers and Chicago Blackhawks has played in the left winger position of the National Hockey League .

Career

Valery Selepukin began his career at Chimik Voskressensk , for whose first team he made his debut in the Vysschaya League during the 1984/85 season . In the following one and a half seasons he established himself within the team, but was delegated to CSKA Moscow as part of his military service in 1987 . During the following two years he completed 36 appearances in the Wysschaja Liga for CSKA, as well as 45 games for the partner club SKA MWO Kalinin in the second-class Perwaja Liga .

In the 1990 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the eleventh round in 221st place by the New Jersey Devils , but stayed for another season with his home club. Before the 1991/92 season he left his home country - benefiting from the fall of the Iron Curtain - and went to North America . First used in the AHL squad of the Utica Devils , Selepukin fought for a place in the NHL squad of the New Jersey Devils during the season . On December 19, 1994, he made his NHL debut against the Hartford Whalers and scored his first NHL goal a week later against the New York Islanders . In the following games he played so convincingly that he was named NHL Rookie of the Month in January 1992 . Already the following season he spent exclusively in the NHL and set his seasonal points record when he collected a total of 64 scorer points in 78 games of the regular season . At the end of the 1993/94 season Selepukin reached the Eastern Conference finals with the Devils , in which the Devils were defeated by the New York Rangers 3: 4 wins. Selepukin contributed a total of 64 scorer points in 102 games (82 of the regular season, 20 playoff games).

Due to the 103-day lockout at the beginning of the following NHL season , which only ended on January 11, 1995, the regular season only began in late January and was shortened from 84 to 48 games. Shortly thereafter, on January 24th, Selepukin sustained an eye injury while exercising, so that he was subsequently out. Only in the play-offs he returned to the NHL squad and won the Stanley Cup with the Devils .

In the following two seasons Selepukin could not build on the good performance before his injury, especially his points yield decreased. Since the Devils also had a lot of competition for two-way strikers like Selepukin, there was a barter in the middle of the season. On January 4, 1998, the Devils gave him along with Bill Guerin to the Edmonton Oilers , who in return sent Jason Arnott and Bryan Muir to the Devils. But the attacker could not prevail against the Oilers either and was exchanged nine months later, on October 5, 1998, for Daniel Lacroix of the Philadelphia Flyers . With the Flyers he mainly focused on his defensive game and also added a certain degree of hardship, so that he was used in the third row, which mostly had to play against the top row of opponents. In the 1999/2000 season he won the Atlantic Division with the Flyers and moved with his team into the conference finals. There the Flyers lost to Selepukin's old team, the New Jersey Devils, with 3: 4 wins.

After the 1999/2000 season he became a free agent and signed a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks on July 18, 2000 . In the course of the following season he was repeatedly used in the partner team of the Blackhawks, the Norfolk Admirals from the AHL. Since the Blackhawks missed the NHL playoffs, Selepukin also spent the playoffs in Norfolk, reaching the second round with the Admirals. In early October 2001 he injured his knee in the Blackhawks training camp and was out for much of the following season. After his recovery he was used exclusively in the AHL with the Norfolk Admirals.

After this experience he returned to Russia in the summer of 2002 and initially played for Ak Bars Kazan in the super league . In the summer of 2003 he moved within the Super League to SKA Saint Petersburg , for which he played 106 games in the following two years, in which he scored 44 points scorer and 198 penalty minutes. In 2005 he returned to the successor of his home club, Chimik Moskowskaja Oblast , and spent his last season there as an active ice hockey player.

As a trainer and functionary

In the 2010/11 season Selepukin was assistant coach of the junior team Long Island Royals from the Metropolitan Junior Hockey League . From January 2014 to November 2016 he was Sports Director (General Manager) at Metallurg Novokuznetsk . From March 2017 he was General Manager at Severstal Tscherepowez before he was dismissed in November 2018 due to the poor sporting situation.

International

Selepukin completed a total of three major international competitions for his home country in the junior division. His first tournament was the U18 European Junior Championship in 1986 , followed by two U20 World Junior Championships in 1987 and 1988 . In 1988 he won the silver medal, while the U20 selection of the USSR was disqualified in the U20 world championships in 1987.

On October 30, 1989 he made his debut for the men's national team of the USSR against Czechoslovakia and played the 1991 World Cup with Sbornaja . In this he won the bronze medal with the USSR selection team.

He later became a member of the Russian national ice hockey team after the collapse of the Soviet Union . He participated in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey , the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 2004 World Cup. His international career was crowned with Olympic silver in 1998. He was then named the Honored Master of Sports of Russia .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Chimik Voskressensk Vysschaya League 5 0 0 0 2
1985/86 Chimik Voskressensk Vysschaya League 33 2 2 4th 10
1986/87 Chimik Voskressensk Vysschaya League 19th 1 0 1 4th
1987/88 SKA MWO Kalinin Pervaya League 45 18th 6th 24 52
1987/88 CSKA Moscow Vysschaya League 19th 3 1 4th 8th
1988/89 CSKA Moscow Vysschaya League 17th 2 3 5 2
1989/90 Chimik Voskressensk Vysschaya League 46 17th 14th 31 28
1990/91 Chimik Voskressensk Vysschaya League 34 11 6th 17th 38
1991/92 Utica Devils AHL 22nd 20th 9 29 8th - - - - -
1991/92 New Jersey Devils NHL 44 13 18th 31 28 4th 1 1 2 2
1992/93 New Jersey Devils NHL 78 23 41 64 70 5 0 2 2 0
1993/94 New Jersey Devils NHL 82 26th 31 57 70 20th 5 2 7th 14th
1994/95 New Jersey Devils NHL 4th 1 2 3 6th 18th 1 2 3 12
1995/96 New Jersey Devils NHL 61 6th 9 15th 107 - - - - -
1996/97 New Jersey Devils NHL 71 14th 24 38 36 8th 3 2 5 2
1997/98 New Jersey Devils NHL 35 2 8th 10 32 - - - - -
1997/98 Edmonton Oilers NHL 33 2 10 12 57 8th 1 2 3 2
1998/99 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 74 16 9 25th 48 4th 1 0 1 4th
1999/00 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 77 11 21st 32 55 18th 1 2 3 12
2000/01 Norfolk Admirals AHL 29 10 9 19th 28 9 5 3 8th 6th
2000/01 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 36 3 4th 7th 18th - - - - -
2001/02 Norfolk Admirals AHL 27 8th 10 18th 29 4th 0 1 1 2
2002/03 Ak Bars Kazan Super league 27 5 8th 13 72 5 1 1 2 4th
2003/04 SKA Saint Petersburg Super league 58 19th 15th 34 94 - - - - -
2004/05 SKA Saint Petersburg Super league 48 4th 6th 10 104 - - - - -
2005/06 Chimik Moskovskaya Oblast Super league 33 3 10 13 28 4th 1 0 1 2
Total Pervaya League 45 18th 6th 24 52
Wysschaja League overall 173 36 26th 62 92
Super league overall 166 31 39 70 298 9 2 1 3 6th
AHL total 78 38 28 66 65 13 5 4th 9 8th
NHL overall 595 117 177 294 527 85 13 13 26th 48

International

Represented the USSR in:

Represented Russia in:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1986 USSR U18 European Championship 5 3 0 3 4th
1987 USSR U20 World Cup 6th 2 1 3 4th
1988 USSR U20 World Cup 7th 6th 1 7th 4th
1991 USSR WM 9 0 4th 4th 5
1996 Russia WCH 3 0 0 0 20th
1998 Russia Olympia 6th 1 2 3 0
2004 Russia WM 6th 0 2 2 4th
Juniors overall 18th 11 2 13 12
Men overall 24 1 8th 9 29

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Зелепукин покинул пост генменеджера «Северстали». In: news.sportbox.ru. November 20, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Selepukin, Valery Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zelepukin, Valeri (English spelling); Зелепукин, Валерий Михайлович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Voskressensk , Russian SFSR