Kirill Tulupov

Kirill Sergeevich Tulupow (Russian Кирилл Сергеевич Тулупов; born April 23, 1988 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who is since October 2013 at the Gwinnett Gladiators in the ECHL under contract.

Career

Kirill Tulupow began his career as a hockey player with Neftjanik Leninogorsk, for the first team he in the 2005/06 season his debut in the Wysschaja League, which still second Russian league was, at that time. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2006 in the third round than a total of 67 players from the New Jersey Devils. Then changed the defender in the Canadian top junior league QMJHL, where he was active for the Sagueneens de Chicoutimi and the Tigres de Victoriaville 2006-2009. For the season 2009/10 the Russians returned to Europe and studied for the HC Slovan Bratislava in the Slovak Extraliga his first full season in professional hockey.

The 2010/11 season began Tulupow at HK Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League, for whom he was employed in four games. In the rest of the season, he also played for Krylia Sovetov Moscow and Molot Perm - Prikamye from the new second Russian league, the Wysschaja Hockey League as well as for the Sary- Arka Karaganda HK from the Kazakhstan championship. For the 2011/12 season, the former youth international joined the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League. For this in 33 games, he scored one goal and seven assists. The season 2012/13 he spent first at Yekaterinburg Awtomobilist from the KHL, before he was transferred in November 2012 within the League to Amur Khabarovsk.

Internationally

For Russia Tulupow took part in the Under-18 Junior World Cup in 2006. During the tournament he prepared in six games before two goals.

KHL stats

(End of season 2011 /12)