Vasily Vitalievich Strelzow

Wassili Strelzow
Date of birth	January 31, 1990
place of birth	Nizhnevartovsk , Russian SFSR
size	182 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	striker
number	# 32
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2009-2014	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2014-2018	HK Lada Tolyatti
2018-2020	Admiral Vladivostok
since 2020	Sokol Krasnoyarsk

Wassili Witaljewitsch Strelzow ( Russian Василий Витальевич Стрельцов ; born January 31, 1990 in Nizhnevartovsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Sokol Krasnoyarsk from the Vysschaja Hockey League since June 2020 . His twin brother Alexander is also a hockey player.

Career

Vasily Strelzow began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of Olimpiez Surgut, where he was active until 2005. He then played for two years in the youth department of Spartakovets Yekaterinburg, before joining Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg in 2007. For the second team, the attacker played for two years in the third-rate Pervaya League . For the professional team of Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg he made his debut in the Continental Hockey League in the 2009/10 season . In his rookie year in the KHL, he remained pointless in five games and received two penalty minutes. At the same time, he played as in the following year for the junior team Awto Yekaterinburg in the multinational youth league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga .

From the 2011/12 season Strelzow played exclusively for the KHL team of Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg, before he was handed over to HK Lada Tolyatti in June 2014 together with his twin brother Alexander . In return, Awtomobilist received two voting rights for the KHL Junior Draft 2015 .

After the 2017/18 season, Lada Tolyatti was expelled from the KHL and the Strelzow brothers decided to continue their careers with Admiral Vladivostok . In June 2020, the striker moved to Sokol Krasnoyarsk from the second-rate Vysschaya hockey league .

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Plus minus	Penalty minutes
Main round	11	468	49	63	112	-74	339
Playoffs	1	2	0	0	0	-1	0

(Status: end of the 2019/20 season)

Web links

• Wassili Strelzow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Wassili Strelzow at eliteprospects.com (English)