Alexander Selivanov
Alexander Selivanov Jurjewitsch (Russian Александр Юрьевич Селиванов; born March 23, 1971 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and current coach, who is an assistant coach Hannu Jortikka at Admiral Vladivostok since 2013.
Career
Seliwanow began with the professional hockey team in the Russian tradition Association HK Spartak Moscow. In the 1988/89 season the links Sagittarius debuted as a 17 -year-old in the top division of the former USSR, where it remained at a game. The winger came in the following season again only three games in which he remained without point, before he could make in the 1990/91 season with 21 games in which he came up with 3 goals and an assist, a big step towards starting players.
In the season 1991/92 the Russians succeeded with six goals and seven assists in 31 games, the breakthrough in the Russian league. The following season Seliwanow reached 31 points in 42 games all and thus finally rose in the ranks of the top players in the league. Due to continued rising benefits the National Hockey League became aware of the attacker, so that the Philadelphia Flyers in the sixth round at position 140 in the NHL Entry Draft 1994, the rights secured then 23 -year-old at that. However, the Flyers traded the rights to the youth players before the season for a fourth- round Draft law to league rivals Tampa Bay Lightning. The 1994/95 season was marked by the then lockout. Only in January began the matches of the League and so Selivanov had to play first in the Minor Leagues. In a total of 18 appearances for the Atlanta Knights and the Chicago Wolves striker reached 4 goals and 8 points.
The shortened to 48 games 1995/96 season Seliwanow finally came on 43 NHL bets in which he scored ten goals and reached 16 points. Only novel Hamrlík, John Tucker, Petr Klima and Brian Bradley scored more goals this season for the Tampa Bay Lightning, with 13 bullet holes were the peak value. The following season, the Russians rose up in the exquisite club of 30 -goal scorers, as he was with 31 hits and 52 points of the third-best scorer and best scorer of a much improved team, which even made the play-off collection. In the following two years, the links Sagittarius, this ratio did not reach and came in 69 and 70 games only at 33 and 35 points scorer. So it was that the season his last in Florida in 1998 /99.
After just 19 points from 48 games, he was sent for two games to Cleveland in the IHL before we traded it for Alexandre Daigle, the former top draft pick of 1993, to Edmonton. Seliwanow finished the season with his new employers with 14 points and 8 goals in 29 games. He brought it in the end a total of 27 goals and 47 points from 67 games. Since his contract expired in Canada, however, the attacker eventually moved as Unrestricted free agent to the newly formed Columbus Blue Jackets.
After an unsuccessful year in Columbus decided to return Alexander Selivanov to Europe. The attacker joined the 2001/02 season in the DEL to Frankfurt Lions, where he was the most enigmatic figure in the league. But he was the exorbitant expectations despite strong 61 points and 26 goals from 56 games ultimately do not meet with the Lions and missed the play-offs.
Seliwanow went back to his home and was available for the HC Metallurg Magnitogorsk on the ice, where he ultimately with 12 points from 30 games, however, also could not be completely convincing. In the summer of 2003, he then negotiated with Butch Goring, the former champion coach of the Krefeld Penguins, but withdrew before ultimately a much better doped offer from St. Petersburg. Here showed the Russians in 21 appearances a goal and seven points, before - frustrated by the defensive play of the Russian League - decided to, but to switch to Krefeld.
For the season 2003/ 04 Alexander Selivanov joined the Penguins, where he was able to convince from the beginning and in an unsuccessful season for the team through his solos, his strong statements and its Overview became the splash of color and hope. 14 goals and 25 points from 30 games, as well as strong performances at the Spengler Cup earned him a contract extension by two years until 2006. In the season 2005/ 06 the attacker passed in the first round the mark of 55 points, after which his contract was again extended by three years. Selivanov was in the 2005/2006 season with 30 goals Top scorer in the DEL. On 29 January 2008 his contract with the Krefeld Penguins, however, was terminated with immediate effect and he joined the Swiss first division club Fribourg- Gottéron. Two days later it was announced that the links Sagittarius would return to the 2008/09 season in the DEL to storm for the EV Duisburg. Following the insolvency of foxes, he moved to HYS The Hague. At the beginning of the 2010/11 season he ran in three games for the SC Bietigheim- Bissingen in the 2nd Hockey League, before he joined the now third-rate EV Duisburg joined after his contract termination in October 2010. For the 2011/12 season he returned to HYS The Hague returned to the Netherlands and was at his former club player-coach.
In 2012, he ended his career and was in the 2012/13 season head coach of HYS The Hague. Since 2013 he is assistant coach Hannu Jortikka at Admiral Vladivostok.
Alexander Selivanov is married to the daughter of hockey legend Phil Esposito and has three children.
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )