Vitaly Nikolayevich Kolesnik
 Vitaly Kolesnik 
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| Date of birth | 20th August 1979 |
| place of birth | Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR |
| size | 190 cm |
| Weight | 94 kg |
| position | goalkeeper |
| number | # 20 |
| Catch hand | Left |
| Career stations | |
| 1998-2005 | Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk |
| 2005-2006 | Lowell Lock Monsters |
| 2006-2009 | Atlant Mytishchi |
| 2009–2012 | Salawat Yulayev Ufa |
| 2012-2016 | Yaroslavl locomotive |
| 2016-2017 | Barys Astana |
Vitaly Nikolajewitsch Kolesnik ( Russian Виталий Николаевич Колесник ; born August 20, 1979 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey goalkeeper , who last played for Barys Astana in the Continental Hockey League .
Career
Club
Vitaly Kolesnik began his career in 1995 in the second Russian division with Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk . In 2005 he moved to the Colorado Avalanche , where he played eight games in the National Hockey League . Another stop during the 2005/06 season was the Avalanche farm team , the Lowell Lock Monsters from the American Hockey League . In 2006 he was signed by Atlant Mytishchi for three seasons. With his next club Salawat Julajew Ufa from Russia, the goalkeeper was under contract from 2009 and won the Gagarin Cup , the championship trophy of the KHL , with this team in 2011 .
In June 2012, Kolesnik signed a two-year contract with Lokomotive Yaroslavl , where he played until 2016. In the 2016/17 season he worked for Barys Astana in his Kazakh homeland, but was released from his current contract in June 2017.
National team
With Kazakhstan, Kelesnik finished second behind Japan at the U18 ice hockey championships in Asia and Oceania in 1997 . Two years later he reached sixth place at the U20 World Cup in 1999 .
Two years later he was appointed to the men's national team for the first time at the 2001 World Cup , where the Kazakhs played in Division I , but did not appear at the tournament in Ljubljana . This changed in 2002 (three missions) and also in 2003 (four missions) when he and his team rose to the top division after five wins in five games. There he played at the World Championships in 2004 and 2005 . The highlight of his international career was the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , where he was used twice.
In the next five years, Kolesnik was initially not considered in the national team. It was not until the Winter Asian Games in 2011 that he was back in the Kazakh squad that won the gold medal. As a result, he also took part in Division I of the 2011 World Cup in the same year and managed to return to the top division with his team, from which Kazakhstan had meanwhile been relegated. There the team was only last a year later and Kolesnik had to accept an average of 5.18 goals in the four games in which he was used. He then delivered a brilliant performance in Division I of the 2013 World Cup , when he conceded only four goals in five games, holding 96.8% of the shots and thus contributed significantly to the return of his team to the top division. In addition to the best catch quota, he also achieved the second-lowest average of goals against goals of the tournament behind the Italian Adam Dennis . He was previously in February 2013 with the Kazakh team at the Olympic qualification for the Games in Sochi failed in 2014, where he at the decisive 2: 3 defeat against Latvia had conceded already two goals in two minutes and 37 seconds and then by Vitaly Jeremejew replaced has been.
Achievements and Awards
- 2002 Lowest conceded goals in the Wysschaja Liga Group East
- 2006 AHL All-Star Classic
- 2008 KHL goalkeeper of the month October
- 2011 Gagarin Cup win with Salawat Julajew Ufa
International
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League statistics
| Seasons | Games | Victories | Defeats | draw | Shutouts | |
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| AHL regular season | 1 | 29 | 15th | 13 | 0 | 3 |
| NHL Regular Season | 1 | 8th | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| KHL regular season | 7th | 163 | 78 | 38 | 27 | 20th |
| KHL playoffs | 5 | 13 | 2 | 6th | 0 | 1 |
(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)
Web links
- Vitali Kolesnik at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Witali Kolesnik at hockeygoalies.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://hcbarys.kz/news/item/barys-i-kolesnik-rastorgli-kontrakt/
- ↑ Match report Kazakhstan vs. Latvia (PDF; 98 kB) on iihf.com, accessed on June 12, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Kolesnik, Vitaly Nikolayevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kolesnik, Vitaly (English); Колесник, Виталий Николаевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kazakh ice hockey goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th August 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR |