Ilya Bryzgalov
Ilya Bryzgalov (Russian Илья Николаевич Брызгалов; born June 22, 1980 in Togliatti, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender who stands since March 2014 at the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Ilya Brysgalow began his career in his hometown at HK Lada Togliatti, for the second team, he was active in the third-class Perwaja League from 1997. In the 1998/99 season Brysgalow came increasingly to use times and completed a total of 20 games. At the start of the following season, he was a third-choice goalkeeper behind Yevgeny Rjabtschikow and Vincent Riendeau for the first team squad. In order to gain more match practice, he was loaned to HK Spartak Moscow from the second-rate Wysschaja league. For Spartak, he completed ten games with a Gegentorschnitt of 2.10. Due to the benefits shown there he received from coach Alexander Yakushev, who was also coach of Spartak, an invitation for the training camp of the national team.
At the end of the season he was given the opportunity to act as a second goalkeeper behind Riendeau in the Super League. He completed 13 Super League games with a Gegentorschnitt of 1.38. Due to the benefits shown he was selected during the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the second round to 44th position. After the Entry Draft, he still remained, despite an offer from the Anaheim Mighty Ducks for another year in his home and established himself as first-choice goalkeeper of Lada Togliatti.
At the beginning of the season 2001/ 02 he went to the United States to the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, the farm team of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the American Hockey League, where he should first gain experience. In the same season he also came first in the National Hockey League action and guarded in a game, the goal of Californians for 32 minutes. That was his only use in the National Hockey League for the following two and a half years. In March of 2003/04 season he was used again in the NHL and completed this time the entire 60 minutes that ended with a victory. In the season of no further use for the Mighty Ducks followed in the NHL and he was ordered back to the farm team to Cincinnati. After the season, the former second goalkeeper Martin Gerber was transferred from Anaheim to Carolina and thus was now room for Brysgalow in the NHL squad. A lockout was responsible for the failure of the season 2004/05. Unlike most professionals, he moved in time not to Europe, but continued to play in the AHL with the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks.
In the season 2005/ 06 returning to normal NHL game mode and ran Brysgalow became an integral part of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. In the regular season of the NHL, he completed 31 games, but was still number two behind Jean -Sébastien Giguère. In the playoffs, he pushed Giguère, who brought only moderate performance due to injury, and was the outstanding man of his team.
The Russians managed to be the first rookie in the history of the NHL three shutouts in the playoffs in a row and stayed a total of 249 minutes and 15 seconds without conceding a goal, which is the second longest ever recorded in the playoff series. He was instrumental in the Western Conference finals of the Mighty Ducks, where his team failed because of the Edmonton Oilers. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season Giguère was again the number one. As a goalkeeper, he came to a total of 27 missions. In the playoffs in three games Brysgalow guarded the gate of Californians before he cashed a 1:4 defeat in the fourth game against the Minnesota Wild and was replaced again by Giguère. The Ducks made it to the finals and eventually won the Stanley Cup.
In the 2007 /08 season Brysgalow was beginning again in goal, because Giguère had to recover from an operation, but after a few weeks the Russians were again goalkeeper. On 16 November 2007 Brysgalow was set up by the Anaheim Ducks on the waiver list, as general manager Brian Burke had found a new team for him, but still wanted to make a change in him. The next day, he was obliged by the Phoenix Coyotes of the waiver list and denied the same afternoon the first game in which he recorded a shutout. Also in the rest of the season Brysgalow showed good performances and signed in January 2008 with the Coyotes a valid starting from the season 2008/ 09 three-year contract worth 12.75 million U.S. dollars. In the season 2009/10, the Phoenix Coyotes for the first time since 2002, qualified for the play- offs. Brysgalow reached 42 victories this season, but could not prevent the first round from the Coyotes against the Detroit Red Wings. In the following season, the Coyotes met again in the first round to the Red Wings. The goalkeeper was his strong performance from the regular season and not get the Coyotes eliminated after a 0-4 defeat in the best- of-seven series from.
On 7 June 2011, he was discharged in a barter for Matt Clackson, a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2012 and a performance-based option to the Philadelphia Flyers. About two weeks later, the Russians agreed to a long-term contract relationship with the Philadelphia Flyers and signed a contract with a term of nine years until 2020, which should guarantee him around 51 million U.S. dollars. In June 2013 his contract was of the Flyers, however, paid early ( buy out ) after a few days earlier, Daniel Brière was also released from his contract. In November of the same year the Russians signed a one-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers. After 2 operations at the Oklahoma City Barons in the AHL, he made his debut for the Oilers on November 29, 2013 against the Nashville Predators.
Brysgalow was transferred on March 5, 2014 for a four -round option under NHL Entry Draft in 2014 to the Minnesota Wild.
Internationally
Brysgalow represented his country in both the junior and senior level in international championships. For the first time played the goalkeeper in the U20 Junior World Championship 2000 for Russia. There he formed together with Alexei Volkov, the keeper team. The good match of the two meant that the Russians won the bronze medal. Brysgalow even finished the tournament with the highest catch rate and the lowest Gegentorschnitt.
The performances at the U20 World Cup bestowed the goalkeeper in the same year the nomination for the men's World Cup in their own country, Russia completed a disappointing eleventh place. Despite his young age, he completed more games than the three and a half years older Yegor Podomazki. With just that he was next to Nikolai Chabibulin to the final three men, who belonged to the squad for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Although Chabibulin completed all six games of the Russians, Brysgalow received the bronze medal at the end of the tournament. At the World Cup of Hockey in 2004, the Russian led the team for the first time as the undisputed first-choice goalkeeper. He played three of the four games of Russia, which failed due to the United States in the quarterfinals. With it, Maxim Sokolov and Alexander Fomitschow stood as another goalkeeper in the squad. At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin Brysgalow filled behind Evgeni Nabokov again the role of the back- ups from. So he came up with only one application during the Winter Games. Not until the 2009 World Cup, the goalkeeper definitively established in the Russian goal as he helped the Sbornaja in defending the world title. It was also Brysgalows biggest international success. A year later he filled at the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver behind Nabokov again the role of the substitute 's from.
Awards and achievements
- 2007 Stanley Cup win with the Anaheim Ducks
- 2010 NHL Second All-Star Team
- 2012 NHL Player of the Month March
Internationally
- 2000 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2002 bronze medal at the Winter Olympics
- 2009 Gold medal at the World Championships
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Russia at:
- U20 Junior World Championship 2000
- World Cup 2000
- 2002 Winter Olympics
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2009
- 2010 Winter Olympics
( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )