Vasily Viktorovich Tokranov

Vasily Tokranov
Date of birth	2nd August 1989
place of birth	Almetyevsk , Russian SFSR
size	184 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	defender
number	# 24
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2009	Neftjanik Almetyevsk
2009-2018	Ak Bars Kazan
since 2018	SKA Saint Petersburg

Wassili Wiktorowitsch Tokranow ( Russian Василий Викторович Токранов ; born August 2, 1989 in Almetjewsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg in the Continental Hockey League since May 2018 .

Career

Vasily Tokranov began his career as a hockey player in his hometown with Neftjanik Almetyevsk , for whose professional team he was active from 2006 to 2009 in the Vysschaya League , the second Russian division. In parallel, the defender played since 2007 for Ak Bars Kazan , for whom he was on the ice in a game in the Superliga in the 2007/08 season . In the course of the 2008/09 season he finally moved permanently to Kazan in the newly founded Continental Hockey League and won the Gagarin Cup with his team in the playoffs . In the following season , the former junior international was able to repeat this success with his team.

From the 2010/11 season Tokranov was a regular at Ak Bars Kazan and was one of the club's strongest attacking defenders in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 season. In the course of the play-offs in 2018 he scored nine points and thus contributed to winning the Gagarin Cup and thus the Russian championship. As a result, he was named KHL Defender of the Month for April . After the end of the season, his contract ran out and he was one of the most sought-after defenders within the KHL. In May 2018 he decided to sign up for a four-year contract with SKA Saint Petersburg .

International

For Russia , Tokranov took part in the U18 Junior World Championship 2007 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 2009 . At the U18 World Cup in 2007 he was world champion with his team, in 2009 at the U20 World Cup he won the bronze medal with his country.

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 gold medal at the U18 World Junior Championship
• 2009 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2009 Gagarin Cup winner with Ak Bars Kazan
• 2010 Gagarin Cup winner with Ak Bars Kazan
• 2018 KHL Defender of the Month (April)
• 2018 Gagarin Cup winner and Russian champion with Ak Bars Kazan

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	10	267	21st	56	77	115
KHL playoffs	7th	52	4th	16	20th	22nd
Super League main round	1	1	0	0	0	0
Super League Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

• Wassili Tokranow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Василий Токранов - в СКА! In: ska.ru. May 21, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018 (Russian).