Team Belarus Media Guide Belarus Ice Hockey Team Management World Championships 2015

TEAM BELARUS MEDIA GUIDE BELARUS ICE HOCKEY TEAM MANAGEMENT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015

David Rodney Oleg Alexander Craig LEWIS ANTONENKO ZHURIK WOODCROFT Head Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach

Michael Vladimir Viacheslav Yegor LEHNER BURE GUSOV GOLOVANEV Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Video Coach Manager

Vasili Viktor Maxim Pavel TARAN KRUKOVSKI MOZGUNOV GOLOVATSKI Doctor Physiotherapist Physiotherapist Equipment Manager

Dmitri PSHENTSOV Equipment Manager GOALKEEPERS

Vitali KOVAL 1 Birthday 31.03.80 Height 188 cm Birthplace Dobrianka (RUS) Weight 97 kg Position Goalkeeper Club Salavat Yulaev (Ufa, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Molot-Prikamie-2 (Perm, RUS), Neﬅjanik (Leninogorsk, RUS), Molot-Prikamie (Perm, RUS), Motor (Barnaul, RUS), Liepajas Metalurgs (Liepaja, LAT), Neman (Grodno, BLR), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL), Atlant (Moscow region, KHL), Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod, KHL). International tournaments GPI Mins GA AVE PM WC'08 6 370 19 3,08 0 WC'09 2 120 9 4,50 2 OG'10 2 120 8 4,00 0 WC'10 3 179 7 2,34 2 WC'12 5 266 13 2,93 2 WC'14 4 176 8 2,72 0 NATIONAL TEAM 57 3230 138 2,56 12

Igor BRIKUN 31 Birthday 6.09.86 Height 180 cm Birthplace Novopolotsk (BLR) Weight 80 kg Position Goalkeeper Club Gomel (BLR) Catches L Past clubs Khimik-SKA (Novopolotsk, BLR), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Gomel-2 (BLR), Neman (Grodno, BLR), Saryarka (Karaganda, VHL).

International tournaments GPI Mins GA AVE PM NATIONAL TEAM 8 400 21 3,15 0

Kevin LALANDE 35 Birthday 19.02.87 Height 182 cm Birthplace Kingston (CAN) Weight 83 kg Position Goalkeeper Club CSKA (Moscow, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Hawkesbury (CJHL), Belleville (OHL), Quad City (AHL), Las Vegas (ECHL), Syracuse (AHL), Vityaz (Podolsk, KHL), Yunost-Minsk (VHL), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL).

International tournaments GPI Mins GA AVE PM WC'14 5 240 5 1,25 0 NATIONAL TEAM 12 605 25 2,48 2 DEFENCEMEN

Nikolai STASENKO 5 Birthday 15.02.87 Height 195 cm Birthplace Roschino (RUS) Weight 95 kg Position Goalkeeper Club Severstal (Cherepovets, KHL) Catches L Past clubs CSKA-2 (Moscow, RUS), Amur-2 (Khabarovsk, RUS), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Amur (Khabarovsk, KHL).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM OG'10 4 0 3 3 2 WC'10 6 0 1 1 4 WC'11 6 0 1 1 0 WC'12 7 0 0 0 10 WC'14 6 1 1 2 27 NATIONAL TEAM 88 3 10 13 81

Ilya SHINKEVICH 8 Birthday 1.09.89 Height 189 cm Birthplace Minsk (BLR) Weight 86 kg Position Defenceman Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Vitebsk-2 (BLR), Keramin-2 (Minsk, BLR), Keramin (Minsk, BLR), Shinnik (Bobruisk, BLR), Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Metallurg (Zhlobin, BLR).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'13 7 0 1 1 4 NATIONAL TEAM 30 0 2 2 12

Andrei KAREV 9 Birthday 1.09.89 Height 177 cm Birthplace Elektrostal (RUS) Weight 90 kg Position Defenceman Club Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR) Catches L Past clubs Elemash-2 (Elektrostal, RUS), Elemash (Elektrostal, RUS), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL), Junost (Minsk, BLR).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM OG'10 3 0 0 0 2 WC'14 2 0 0 0 0 NATIONAL TEAM 40 0 1 1 6 Yevgeni LISOVETS 14 Birthday 12.11.94 Height 183 cm Birthplace Grodno (BLR) Weight 90 kg Position Defenceman Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Neman-2 (Grodno, BLR), Dinamo-Shinnik (Bobruisk, MHL), Neman (Grodno, BLR).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM NATIONAL TEAM 17 0 0 0 6

Oleg GOROSHKO 22 Birthday 19.11.89 Height 178 cm Birthplace Grodno (BLR) Weight 84 kg Position Defenceman Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches R Past clubs Gomel-2 (BLR), Shinnik (Bobruisk, BLR), Neman (Grodno, BLR).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'11 6 0 2 2 0 WC'12 7 0 1 1 2 WC'13 7 0 2 2 4 NATIONAL TEAM 74 1 12 13 58

Oleg YEVENKO 25 Birthday 21.01.91 Height 201 cm Birthplace Minsk (BLR) Weight 104 kg Position Defenceman Club Adirondack (AHL) Catches L Past clubs Fargo (USHL), Un.Mass. (NCAA).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'14 8 0 2 2 6 NATIONAL TEAM 15 1 2 3 20 Nikita USTINENKO 26 Birthday 22.04.95 Height 186 cm Birthplace Gomel (BLR) Weight 78 kg Position Defenceman Club Gomel (BLR) Catches R Past clubs Raubichi (BLR), Gomel-2 (BLR), Dinamo-Shinnik (Bobruisk, MHL).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM NATIONAL TEAM 10 1 0 1 2

Ivan USENKO 57 Birthday 12.02.83 Height 183 cm Birthplace Gorki (RUS) Weight 80 kg Position Defenceman Club Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR) Catches R Past clubs Torpedo-2 (Nizhny Novgorod, RUS), Swiﬅ Current Broncos (WHL), THK (Tver, RUS), Olympia (Kirovo-Chepetsk, RUS), Sarov (RUS), Vitebsk (BLR), Gomel (BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'09 7 0 0 0 0 WC'14 6 0 0 0 0 NATIONAL TEAM 65 6 5 11 32

Dmitri KOROBOV 89 Birthday 12.03.89 Height 190 cm Birthplace Novopolotsk (BLR) Weight 108 kg Position Defenceman Club Atlant (Moscow region, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Gomel-2 (BLR), Gomel (BLR), Shinnik (Bobruisk, BLR), Keramin (Minsk, BLR), Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL), Tamra (NHL), Syracuse (AHL).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'09 2 0 0 0 0 WC'11 6 2 3 5 0 WC'12 7 0 3 3 4 WC'14 8 0 3 3 14 NATIONAL TEAM 61 6 17 23 78 FORWARDS

Aleksandr KULAKOV 11 Birthday 15.05.83 Height 182 cm Birthplace Minsk (BLR) Weight 91 kg Position Forward Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Junost (Minsk, BLR), Keramin (Minsk, BLR), Vitebsk (BLR), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Khimik- SKA (Novopolotsk, BLR), Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR), Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod, KHL). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'07 6 2 2 4 6 WC'08 5 0 1 1 0 WC'09 7 0 0 0 2 OG'10 4 0 1 1 0 WC'10 6 0 0 0 0 WC'11 6 1 5 6 2 WC'12 5 0 0 0 2 WC'13 7 1 1 2 4 NATIONAL TEAM 140 22 38 60 68

Sergei DROZD 13 Birthday 14.04.90 Height 181 cm Birthplace Minsk (BLR) Weight 77 kg Position Forward Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Lokomotiv-2 (Yaroslavl, RUS), Shinnik (Bobruisk, BLR), Keramin (Minsk, BLR), Try City (WHL).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'10 2 0 0 0 0 WC'11 3 0 0 0 2 WC'12 6 0 0 0 2 NATIONAL TEAM 70 9 10 19 38

Artyom DEMKOV 15 Birthday 26.09.89 Height 178 cm Birthplace Minsk (BLR) Weight 78 kg Position Forward Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches R Past clubs Junior (Minsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Cape Breton (QMJHL), Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR), Hamburg (GER), Elmira (ECHL), Albany (AHL), Sochi (KHL).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'11 3 1 2 3 0 WC'13 7 0 1 1 2 NATIONAL TEAM 34 4 12 16 18 Alexei KALYUZHNI 17 Birthday 13.06.77 Height 177 cm Birthplace Minsk (BLR) Weight 86 kg Position Forward Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Neﬅekhimik (Nizhnekamsk, RUS), Metallurg (Magnitogorsk, RUS), Severstal (Cherepovets, RUS), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Dinamo (Moscow, KHL), Avangard (Omsk region, KHL), Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl, KHL). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC (B)'97 7 3 1 4 4 OG'98 7 1 0 1 6 WC (A)'98 6 1 4 5 2 WC (A)'99 6 1 1 2 6 WC (A)'00 6 1 2 3 12 WC'01 6 2 1 3 4 OG (gualiﬁc.)'02 3 0 2 2 0 OG'02 9 1 1 2 0 WC'08 6 1 3 4 4 WC'09 5 1 5 6 0 OG'10 4 3 1 4 2 WC'10 6 4 2 6 4 WC'12 7 3 2 5 2 WC'14 7 1 6 7 2 NATIONAL TEAM 154 41 77 118 108

Andrei STAS 23 Birthday 18.10.88 Height 181 cm Birthplace Minsk (BLR) Weight 77 kg Position Forward Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Junior (Minsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), (BLR), Keramin (Minsk, BLR), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'09 7 1 0 1 6 OG'10 4 0 0 0 2 WC'10 6 1 2 3 4 WC'11 6 0 0 0 0 WC'122 7 0 0 0 12 WC'13 7 0 2 2 2 WC'14 8 1 3 4 2 NATIONAL TEAM 108 11 28 39 132

Alexei YEFIMENKO 27 Birthday 20.08.85 Height 185 cm Birthplace Slavgorog (RUS) Weight 90 kg Position Forward Club Sibir Catches R (Novosibirsk region, KHL) Past clubs Lokomotiv-2 (Yaroslavl, RUS), Voronezh (RUS), Rybinsk (RUS), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Brest (BLR), Khimvolokno (Mogilev, BLR), Metallurg (Zhlobin, BLR), Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'13 6 1 0 1 2 WC'14 8 1 1 2 4 NATIONAL TEAM 74 16 12 28 34 Andrei KOSTITSYN 46 Birthday 3.02.85 Height 183 cm Birthplace Novopolotsk (BLR) Weight 98 kg Position Forward NHL Draﬅ Montreal 1 th choice Catches L (10 th overall) in 2003 Club Sochi (KHL) Past clubs Polymir (Novopolotsk, BLR), Khimik-ShVSM (Vitebsk, BLR), CSKA-2 (Moscow, RUS), CSKA (Moscow, RUS), Khimik (Voskresensk, RUS), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL), Keramin (Minsk, BLR), Montreal (NHL), Nachvill (NHL), Traktor (Chelyabinsk, KHL). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'03 2 1 0 1 2 WC (I)'04 5 3 3 6 0 WC'056 0 0 0 4 WC'066 1 4 5 6 WC'085 2 1 3 18 WC'115 3 4 7 4 WC'123 0 2 2 27 WC'147 0 0 0 4 NATIONAL TEAM 67 25 23 48 105

Sergei DEMAGIN 59 Birthday 19.07.86 Height 183 cm Birthplace Togliatti (RUS) Weight 84 kg Position Forward Club Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Dinamo-2 (Minsk, BLR), Neﬅekhimik (Nizhnekamsk, KHL), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL), Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk, KHL), Avtomobilist (Ekaterinburg, KHL) .

International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'07 3 0 0 0 2 WC'09 7 1 1 2 4 OG'10 4 0 1 1 2 WC'10 6 2 0 2 0 WC'11 6 3 0 3 4 NATIONAL TEAM 83 24 15 39 38

Andrei STEPANOV 61 Birthday 14.04.86 Height 178 cm Birthplace Moscow (RUS) Weight 91 kg Position Forward Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches R Past clubs CSKA-2 (Moscow, RUS), Krylija Sowetov (Moscow, RUS), Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod, RUS), THK (Tver, RUS), MVD (Tver, RUS), Vityaz (Podolsk, RUS), Metallurg (Novokuznetsk, RUS), Dmitrov (RUS), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Sibir (Novosibirsk, KHL), Amur (Khabarovsk, KHL), Neﬅekhimik (Nizhnekamsk, KHL). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'11 6 2 3 5 0 WC'12 5 0 1 1 0 WC'14 8 3 2 5 2 NATIONAL TEAM 59 25 14 39 54 Sergei KOSTITSYN 74 Birthday 20.03.87 Height 183 cm Birthplace Novopolotsk (BLR) Weight 95 kg Position Forward NHL Draﬅ Montreal 7 th choice Catches L (200 th overall) in 2005 Club Ak Bars (Kazan, KHL) Past clubs Polymir (Novopolotsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Gomel-2 (BLR), Gomel (BLR), London Knights (OHL), Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL), Montreal Canadiens (NHL), Nachvill (NHL), Avangard (Omsk region, KHL). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'08 4 0 1 1 0 OG'10 4 2 3 5 0 WC'12 3 1 1 2 2 WC'14 8 4 4 8 10 NATIONAL TEAM 28 13 13 26 22

Alexander KITAROV 77 Birthday 18.06.87 Height 190 cm Birthplace Novopolotsk (BLR) Weight 96 kg Position Forward Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Khimik-SKA (Novopolotsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'11 6 0 3 3 4 WC'12 6 0 0 0 14 WC'13 7 1 1 2 12 WC'14 8 0 1 1 10 NATIONAL TEAM 93 12 20 32 98

Artyom VOLKOV 85 Birthday 28.01.85 Height 183 cm Birthplace Novopolotsk (BLR) Weight 84 kg Position Forward Club Avangard (Omsk region, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Khimik-ShVSM (Vitebsk, BLR), Vitebsk (BLR), Junior (Minsk, BLR), Gomel (BLR), Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR), Junost (Minsk, BLR). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'07 6 0 0 0 12 WC'14 8 0 0 0 0 NATIONAL TEAM 68 6 5 11 82

Yevgeni KOVYRSHIN 88 Birthday 25.01.86 Height 178 cm Birthplace Elektrostal (RUS) Weight 78 kg Position Forward Club Severstal (Cherepovets, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Elemash-2 (Elektrostal, RUS), Brest (BLR), Keramin (Minsk, BLR), Shakhter (Soligorsk, BLR), Dinamo (Minsk, KHL).

International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'09 7 0 0 0 4 WC'10 6 0 2 2 0 WC'11 6 1 3 4 4 WC'12 7 2 2 4 0 WC'13 7 1 1 2 0 WC'14 7 0 0 0 0 NATIONAL TEAM 108 14 22 36 38

Artur GAVRUS 91 Birthday 3.01.94 Height 178 cm Birthplace Ratichi (BLR) Weight 80 kg Position Forward Club Dinamo (Minsk, KHL) Catches L Past clubs Neman-2 (Grodno, BLR), Neman (Grodno, BLR), Dinamo-Shinnik (Bobruisk, MHL), Dinamo (Molodechno, BLR). International tournaments GP G A TP PM WC'13 3 0 0 0 0 NATIONAL TEAM 20 2 3 5 2 BELARUS NATIONAL TEAM PLAYERS

GOALKEEPERS GA 337 138 117 46 53 68 53 39 48 25 28 20 21 8 14 11 5 60 2,00 3 1 3

DEFENDERS

GOALKEEPERS GA Andrei GLEBOV Sergei FEDOTOV Pavel MIKULCHIK Evgeny LISOVETS Vadim SUSHKO Aleksandr TSYPLAKOV Oleg YEVENKO Mikhail KHOROMANDO Aleksandr YERONOV Maksim TSVETKOV Sergei PAKLIN Vadim NOVITSKI Yuri KUZMENKOV Aleksei SHAGOV Andrei KORSHUNOV Igor SHVEDOV Sergei SHELEG Evgeny NOGACHEV Oleg MISYUL Nikita USTINENKO Aleksei TITOVETS Oleg RUNETS Vyacheslav SOKOL Aleksei VERBITSKI Vyacheslav SHIPILO Sergei RADKO Vladimir MAGDEEV Dmitry NICHIUKHIN Marat ASKAROV Vladimir PEREVERZEV Oleg TETEREV Konstantin DURNOV Roman DOSTANKO Maksim KAMENKOV Dmitry PARAKHONKO Evgeny GORANIN Kristian KHENKEL Anton PULVER Aleksei BARANOV Evgeny GRIBKO Eduard DIAKONOV Dmitry EDESHKO Artur LACHAUNIEK Vitaly SAVKO Dmitry SHUMSKI Aleksei DENISKIN Georgy YASKEVICH Pavel KAZAKEVICH Sergei GIRO GA GA GA GA

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BELARUS NATIONAL TEAM COACHES BELARUS vs OPPONENTS GAME SCHEDULE

Date Time Game Group A - Prague Game Group B - Ostrava GMT+1 # # 1 16:15 2 01.05.2015 3 20:15 4 5 12:15 6 7 02.05.2015 16:15 8 9 20:15 10 11 12:15 12 13 03.05.2015 16:15 14 15 20:15 16 16:15 17 18 04.05.2015 19 20:15 20 PRELIMINARY ROUND 21 16:15 22 05.05.2015 23 20:15 24 25 16:15 26 06.05.2015 27 20:15 28 29 16:15 30 07.05.2015 31 20:15 32 33 16:15 34 08.05.2015 35 20:15 36 37 12:15 38 39 09.05.2015 16:15 40 41 20:15 42 43 16:15 44 10.05.2015 45 20:15 46 47 16:15 48 11.05.2015 49 20:15 50 51 12:15 52 53 12.05.2015 16:15 54 55 20:15 56 13.05.2015 DAY OFF 15:15 57

16:15 58 FINAL ROUND 14.05.2015 19:15 59 20:15 61 15.05.2015 DAY OFF 15:15 62 16.05.2015 19:15 63 16:15 64 17.05.2015 20:15 65 NOTES:

If qualified for the Quarter-Finals, CZE will play in Prague at 20:15.

If qualified for the Semi-Finals, CZE will play in Prague at 15:15.

Should CZE not qualify for the Semi-Finals, then the highest ranked team from the Preliminary round will play at 15:15.