Gennady Churilov
Gennadi Stanislavovich Tschurilow (Russian Геннадий Станиславович Чурилов; born May 5, 1987 in Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR; † 7 September 2011 in Tunoschna in Yaroslavl ) is a Russian ice hockey player who during his career, among other things for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League played.
Career
Gennadi Tschurilow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk, for the second team, he was active in the third-class Perwaja League in the season 2003/ 04. Subsequently, the winger played a year for the Remparts de Quebec in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL, before he returned to his native Russia. There he first played for three years for the first team of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Super League, the highest Russian league. In the 2007 /08 season the former youth international has been with his team runner-up.
From the 2008/ 09 season was Tschurilow for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League newly founded on the ice. In its premiere season, he failed with locomotive until the playoff final for the Gagarin Cup with 3:4 victories in the best- of-seven series at Ak Bars Kazan. In the 2009/10 season he won the Ironman Award of the KHL as a player with the most deployments within the last three years. On September 7, 2011, he died in a plane crash near Yaroslavl killed.
Internationally
For Russia Tschurilow took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2006 and 2007 at the junior level. In both tournaments he won with his team the silver medal each. In 2011 he was senior level in the squad of his country at the Euro Hockey Tour.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2007 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2008 Russian runner with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
- 2009 Russian runner with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
- 2010 KHL Ironman Award