Valery Mikhailovich Selepukin
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
- 1992 NHL Rookie of the Month for January
- 1995 Stanley Cup win with the New Jersey Devils
- 1998 Honored Master of Sports of Russia in Ice Hockey
International
- 1988 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
- 1991 bronze medal at the world championship
- 1998 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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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 | |
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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
- Waleri Selepukin at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Valery Selepukin at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Valery Selepukin at eurohockey.com
- Valery Selepukin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Зелепукин покинул пост генменеджера «Северстали». In: news.sportbox.ru. November 20, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018 (Russian).
personal data | |
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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 |