Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Ivanovich Koroljuk (Russian Александр Иванович Королюк; born January 15, 1976 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who is under contract with HK Vityaz in the Kontinental Hockey League since 2012.
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Career
Koroljuk began the season 1993/94 at Krylia Sovetov Moscow in the Russian Superleague his professional career. There he played into it at first until the 1996/97 season, before he moved to North America in the International Hockey League with the Manitoba Moose.
After him, the San Jose Sharks had already selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 in the sixth round of the 141st position, he signed before the start of the 1997/98 season where a contract. First, the Sharks in the American Hockey League with the Kentucky Thoroughblades him sat a, but got him during the season in the National Hockey League. The following season spent Koroljuk again in the AHL and NHL. In the season 1999/2000, the Russian squad established in the Northern Californians. Since his contract at the end of the season but ended and the Sharks were not willing to submit to it a better-paid contract, he returned to Russia to Ak Bars Kazan. After a short time he accepted but then the offer from San Jose and returned to the United States, where he remained until the end of the 2001/02 season.
Then it moved Koroljuk again back to his home country. Ak Bars Kazan When he played the entire 2002/03 season, before he then hired in the following season for another year with the Sharks. Due to the NHL lockout during the entire 2004/05 season Koroljuk went back to Russia. One year he played with Vityaz Chekhov in the second-rate Russian Wysschaja league. As top scorer of the league, he led the team to promotion to the Super League, joined the rest of the season but Chimik Moskovskaya Oblast. In the summer he returned to Chekhov. Because of his performance in the season 2005/ 06 he took in February 2006 for Russia participate in the Olympic ice hockey tournament.
In the summer of 2006 gave the Sharks Koroljuks transfer rights, along with Jim Fahey, the New Jersey Devils, since they did not expect his return to the NHL, and we were given, among others, a first-round pick in the NHL Entry Draft in 2007. On 16 February 2007 San Jose picked up in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2007 Entry Draft Koroljuks transfer rights of the Devils back. Only six days later, Sharks General Manager Doug Wilson announced that the swap was reversed because Koroljuk had opted for a stay in Russia. Koroljuk remained until the end of the 2007/08 season with Vityaz Chekhov. After the founding of the Continental Hockey League, he joined in the summer of 2008 for the Liga rivals Atlant Mytischtschi, he left after only one year in order to join the SKA Saint Petersburg.
The 2010/11 season he spent with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, but received after the season a new contract. It was only in September 2011, shortly after the beginning of the 2011/12 season, Koroljuk signed with Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. In June 2012, he returned to Vityaz Chekhov. After Vityaz the play-offs could not reach, Koroljuk was loaned to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk in January 2013 and returned after the season back to Vityaz.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Russia at:
- U18 European Junior Championships 1994
- World Youth Championship 1995
- World Youth Championship 1996
- World Cup 1997
- World Cup 2001
- 2006 Winter Olympics
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )