Launching a new career

VIERUMÄKI – It was rather unplanned when Konstantin Simchuk put his gear on during the Ukrainian playoffs this past spring. He had already ended his goalie career one year earlier and was preparing for his post-playing days. IIHF.com met him at the Vierumäki camp. Simchuk, who played at the highest level at various World Championships, the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, in the top Russian league and in the ‘90s also in the IHL that was at the same level as today’s AHL, finished his career with his hometown team Sokil Kyiv after the 2011/2012 season.

In 2012/2013 he worked for the same club as a sport director.

“But then two goalies were injured, we didn’t want to put the juniors into the fire during the playoffs, so I put the gear on and played three games,” Simchuk said.

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Meet Team Yellow

Team Roster

3 D SVK Matus Juriga 4 D FRA Maxime Ritz 5 D ROU Norbert Borbat

6 D CRO Stjepan Cizmadija 7 D ISL Robert Gudnason

8 D RSA Duncan Pogieter 10 F USA Logan Brown

11 F NOR Christoffer Karlsen 12 F SRB Vladmir Zivic Red team getting ready to play against White team 14 F EST Kristjan Simson

15 F AUS Shumak Lachlan Team: Yellow 16 F BUL Atanas Genkov

17 F MEX Gianni Rios Nickname: Submarines 18 F IRE Daniel Duffy

30 G ITA Diego De Silvestro As the Beatles famously put it, “Come together”, this is 31 G LTU Tadas Guilakas what the Yellow Submarines will be looking to do. The

emotion in the dressing room is described as “up and

down.” Staff The week started slow for the team as the staff took a bit MC GER Ulrich Liebsch of time to become comfortable with each other. The C CHN Liu Ren coaching staff was being patient and taking their time C LTU Eduard Pavliukov evaluating the strengths of the team. So players were GC FRA Romain Farruggia weaker in skills but have worked hard to improve their skills. C LAT Janis Zarins TM UKR Konstantin Simchuk The strategy for the “Subs” is to stay positive and continue EM MAS Mohd Hafis to work on helping each other out.

MC = Mentor Coach C = Coach GC = Goalie Coach

TM = Team Manager EM = Equipment Manager

Meet Team Green

Team Roster

3 D CAN Marcus Tesink 4 D ITA Luca Ploner

5 D JPN Kai Wilson 6 D CRO Jan Tadic

7 D MEX Santiago Gradjeda 8 D RSA Zander De Jager 10 F USA Patrick Khoderenko 11 F SWE Pontus Karlsson

12 F BLR Pavel Yushkevich

13 F POL Bartlomiej Jeziorski

14 F EST Georg Ermel Red team getting ready to play against White team 15 F ROU Balazs Gajdo

16 F BEL Kwinten Tambeur Team: Green

17 F RSA Gareth Bremner Nickname: Green Mean Fighting Machine 18 F ISL Edmunds Induss

19 F GRE George Almasidis 30 G FRA Timothe Cachard They’re green, they’re mean and they’re a fighting machine. No, they have 31 G NED Tom Barendregt nothing to do with ninjas or turtles. This is a hockey team. One that is made up of a group of players who are willing to learn new things, work hard and have fun. That sounds like a recipe for success and it certainly

Staff translate to a great record (3 wins – 1 loss). While other teams maybe working out the kinks, the staff for Green have no issues regarding culture MC SVK Igor Andrejkovic or language. “Everyone feels good and is a part of a great team”, says C ISR Dmitri Gromkov Mentor Coach Igor Andrjkovic (SVK). C BLR Vyacheslav Gusov Goaltending looks to be leading the Green Machine with a pair of very GC BEL Bjorn Steijlen capable netminders. That’s not to say that the rest of the team isn’t just as C FIN Nico Kivilahti important.

TM TPE Ping-Yi Yen Injuries and sickness seems to be the only thing slowing down this team. EM ISL Karvel Thorsteinsson As we head into the home stretch, the Green Mean Fighting Machinnce will try to stay health.

MC = Mentor Coach C = Coach GC = Goalie Coach

TM = Team Manager EM = Equipment Manager