Sergei Shepelev

Sergei Mikhailovich Schepelew (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Шепелев; born October 13, 1955 in Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and current coach.

Career

During his career he played in Awtomobilist Sverdlovsk and HK Spartak Moscow. In all, he scored 189 goals in 453 games in the Soviet league. He was appointed to the team of the Soviet national ice hockey team. On December 16, 1980, he was in a game against Finland for the first time for the Sbornaja on the ice. His international career was crowned with the gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics. For the national team, he scored 42 goals in 103 internationals. On 21 December 1985 he played his last international match. In 1981 he was awarded the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. He also received the 1981 Medal of the Soviet Union in 1984 and the Order of Friendship of Peoples.

As a coach

Between 1988 and 1998 he worked as a hockey coach in Japan. In the 2000 /01 season he was an assistant coach at HK Spartak Moscow and supervised parallel the veteran team of ice hockey team. Between 2002 and 2005 he was head coach of Spartak Moscow.

Since 2008 Schepelew has been head coach at HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk. The club he led in 2009 and 2010 in his first two seasons on the coaching position for each championship of the second-rate Wysschaja League, after which the team was inducted into the Continental Hockey League for the season 2010/ 11 financial year.

End of October 2013 occurred Schepelew back together with his assistant after a losing streak.