Vitaly Lyutkevich

Vitaly Lyutkevich
Date of birth	April 4, 1980
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
size	184 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1999	HK Dynamo Moscow
1999-2000	HK Awangard Omsk
2000-2002	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2002	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2002-2003	HK Dynamo Moscow
2003-2004	Olimpija Kirovo-Chepetsk
2004-2005	HK MWD Tver Neftyanik Leninogorsk
2005-2008	HK Keramin Minsk
2008-2009	HK Sokol Kiev
2009-2010	HK Dinamo Minsk
2010-2011	HK Shakhtsor Salihorsk
2011-2013	HK Donbass Donetsk
since 2013	Molot-Prikamje Perm

Vitaly Wiktorowytsch Ljutkewytsch ( Ukrainian Віталій Вікторович Люткевич , Russian Виталий Викторович Люткевич Vitaly Viktorovich Ljutkewitsch ; * 4. April 1980 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian hockey player , who has been in 2013 at Molot-Prikamye Perm in the Supreme Hockey League under Contract stands.

Career

Vitaly Lyutkevich began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of HK Dynamo Moscow , for whose second team he made his debut in the Vysschaya League , the second Russian division, in the 1998/99 season . Then the defender spent one season each in the Super League at HK Avangard Omsk and Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , before moving to the second division HK Sibir Novosibirsk during the 2001/02 season, with whom he achieved promotion to the Super League in the playoffs. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian left the club and returned to his ex-club Dynamo Moscow, where he was unable to assert himself and was only on the ice for the second team of the capital city in the third-rate Pervaya League apart from four appearances in the super league .

From 2003 to 2005 Lyutkewytsch played for Olimpija Kirowo-Chepetsk , HK MWD Tver and Neftjanik Leninogorsk in the Vysschaya League. Then he took the HK Keramin Minsk under contract with whom he won the Belarusian championship in the 2007/08 season . He was also runner-up with the team in 2007 and was elected to the second All-Star Team of the Extraliga in the 2005/06 season . After a season at HK Sokol Kiev from his Ukrainian homeland, who competed in the Russian Wysschaja Liga, the left-handed shooter signed for the 2009/10 season with HK Dinamo Minsk , for which he made a template in 20 games in the Continental Hockey League . At the same time he was runner-up in Belarus with Minsk's farm team HK Shakhtsor Salihorsk . In May 2010 he first signed a contract with the newly founded KHL participant HK Budiwelnik Kiev. After he could not start playing in the KHL due to delays in the stadium renovation, the Ukrainian stayed in Belarus at HK Shazjor Salihorsk.

For the 2011/12 season Lyutkewytisch returned to his Ukrainian homeland and signed a contract with HK Donbass Donetsk from the Vysschaja Hockey League . The following season he played for the Donbass second team in the Ukrainian PHL . In 2013 the second team was disbanded. Since then, Lyutkewytsch has played in the Vysschaya Hockey League at Molot-Prikamje Perm .

International

For Ukraine , Lyutkewytsch took part in the World Championships in Division I in 2008 , 2009 , 2011 , 2012 and 2013, as well as in the World Championships in the Top Division in 2001 , 2005 and 2007 . He was also in his country's squad to qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi .

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 promotion to the super league with HK Sibir Novosibirsk
• 2007 Belarusian runner-up with the HK Keramin Minsk
• 2007 Extraliga Second All-Star Team
• 2008 Belarusian champion with the HK Keramin Minsk
• 2009 Spengler Cup win with HK Dinamo Minsk
• 2010 Belarusian runner-up with HK Shakhtsjor Salihorsk
• 2013 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Cup Division I, Group B
• 2013 Ukrainian champion with the HK Donbass Donetsk

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	1	20th	0	1	1	31
Super League main round	4th	79	2	4th	6th	28
Super League Playoffs	2	11	0	1	1	16
Extraliga main round	5	200	22nd	74	96	197
Extraliga playoffs	3	32	5	10	15th	46
PHL main round	1	23	3	5	8th	20th
PHL playoffs	1	11	1	5	6th	2

(Status: end of the 2012/13 season)

Web links

• Vitaly Lyutkewytsch at hockeydb.com (English)
• Vitaly Lyutkewytsch at eurohockey.com
• Vitaly Lyutkevich at eliteprospects.com (English)