Vladimir Tsyplakov
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Uladzimir Wiktarawitsch Zyplakou (White Russian Уладзімір Віктаравіч Цыплакоў, Russian Владимир Викторович Цыплаков / Vladimir Viktorovich Zyplakow; born April 18, 1969 in Inta, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian- Belarusian ice hockey player who during his career, among other things, for the Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres played in the National Hockey League.
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Career
Uladzimir Zyplakou began his career as a hockey player at youth level Torpedo Yaroslavl, for the first team, he was active in the second Soviet division from 1985 to 1987. He then moved for four years to HK Dinamo Minsk, for which he took in both the second highest and highest Soviet league and the CIS Championship. In the summer of 1992, the attacker went to North America, where he stood in the following three years in the minor league teams Detroit Falcons of the Colonial Hockey League and Indianapolis Ice and Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League contract. Then, the White Russian was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 in the third round as a total 59 players from the Los Angeles Kings. For the Los Angeles Kings Zyplakou played four and a half years in the National Hockey League, before being delivered to the League rival Buffalo Sabres on 24 January 2000 in exchange for an eight -round voting rights for the NHL Entry Draft in 2000.
The franchise of the Buffalo Sabres of the White Russian spent the next one and a half seasons, where he missed much of the 2000/01 season due to a knee injury he had sustained early in the season. From 2001 to 2004, the two -time Olympian was at Ak Bars Kazan in the Russian Superleague on the ice. With the team he was in season 2001/ 02 runners-up. In the final he defeated Kazan with his former club from Yaroslavl, where he had begun his career and had been renamed in the meantime locomotive. The 2004/05 season he started at HK CSKA Moscow in the Super League, played in the playoffs but for the HK Junost Minsk in the Belarusian Extraliga. The club from the capital he became a master. To win the title Zyplakou contributed three goals and two assists in seven games. He then finished his career at the age of 36 years.
He has won multiple awards as a White Russian ice hockey player of the year.
Internationally
For the Soviet Union Zyplakou took part in the World Youth Championship in 1989, in which he became world champion with his team. For Belarus, he took up at the B World Championships in 2002 and 2004 and the A World Championships in 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2005. In addition, he was in the squad of Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and 2002 Salt Lake City.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 Russian runner with Ak Bars Kazan
- 2002 Belarus Hockey Player of the Year
- 2005 White Champion of Russia with the HK Junost Minsk