Vladimir Vladimirovich Gorbunov

Vladimir Gorbunov
Date of birth	April 22, 1982
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
size	185 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2000 , 4th round, 105th position New York Islanders
Career stations
1999-2004	HK CSKA Moscow
2004	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2004-2007	HK MWD Tver
2007-2008	HK CSKA Moscow
2008-2010	HK MWD Balashikha
2010-2011	OHK dynamo
2011-2013	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2013	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2013-2014	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg

Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Gorbunow ( Russian Владимир Владимирович Горбунов ; born April 22, 1982 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Vladimir Gorbunov began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HK CSKA Moscow , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Vysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, in the 1999/2000 season . Then he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2000 in the fourth round as a total of 105th player by the New York Islanders , for which he however never played. Instead, the attacker stayed with CSKA Moscow and rose with his team in the 2001/02 season in the Super League . In the Super League he spent another two years at CSKA before moving to Salawat Yulayev Ufa for the 2004/05 season within the Super League . However, he left his new club after only one game and signed a contract with the second division HK MWD Tver , with which he immediately got the second division championship and promotion to the super league.

After three years Gorbunow left the HK MWD Tver and joined his home club CSKA Moscow for the 2007/08 season. From 2008 to 2010 he joined the newly founded Continental Hockey League for his ex-club HK MWD, which has now moved to Balaschicha . With this he was defeated in the 2009/10 season Ak Bars Kazan only in the final of the playoffs for the Gagarin Cup . After the season, the HK MWD was merged with the HK Dynamo Moscow and the left-handed shooter received a contract for the 2010/11 season with their successor team OHK Dynamo . For the 2011/12 season he moved to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod within the KHL .

He spent the 2013/14 season at HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk and Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg .

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 promotion to the super league with HK CSKA Moscow
• 2005 Wysschaja Liga champion and promotion to the super league with HK MWD Tver
• 2010 Russian runner-up with the HK MWD Balaschicha

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	150	23	33	56	166
KHL playoffs	2	27	2	3	5	14th
Super League main round	6th	217	28	33	61	306
Super League Playoffs	3	12	3	1	4th	26th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Wladimir Gorbunow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Wladimir Gorbunow at eliteprospects.com (English)