Denis Shvidki

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Denis Alexandrovich Schwidki (Russian Денис Александрович Швидкий, Ukrainian Денис Олександрович Швидкий / Denys Olexandrowytsch Schwydkyj; born November 21, 1980 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian- Ukrainian professional ice hockey player who plays for the Heilbronner Falken since 2013.

  • 2.1 International

Career

Denis Schwidki began his career as a hockey player with Torpedo Yaroslavl, with whom he immediately won the Russian championship in his rookie year in the 1996/97 season. In his two season for Torpedo in the Russian Super League, the attacker scored four goals in 32 games and was preparing for another three before.

He subsequently transferred to Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League, where he was active for the Barrie Colts until 2000. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 in the first round as a whole twelfth player of the Florida Panthers and won with his team in the season 1999/2000 the J. Ross Robertson Cup as champions of the OHL. For the Panthers, the native Ukrainians subsequently completed in four years, a total of 76 games in the National Hockey League, where he scored 25 points scorer. The majority of his time in the franchise of Americans, however, he spent at their farm teams of the American Hockey League, the Utah Grizzlies and San Antonio Rampage.

In the summer of 2004 Schwidki returned to Yaroslavl, where he took up for the now renamed the locomotive team in the Super League. For the team he played just one year as then for its league rivals HK Sibir Novosibirsk and Amur Khabarovsk. From 2007 to 2009 the former youth international standing by the SKA Saint Petersburg under contract for which he competed in the 2008 /09 season in the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League. For the 2009/10 season Schwidki signed a trial contract with Kärpät Oulu from the Finnish SM- liiga, which was not extended in November after.

2010 Schwidki was from HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk from the second Russian league, the league Wysschaja obliged, with whom he won the championship of the league. The HK Yugra was taken in the early summer of 2010 in the KHL, but Schwidki received a new contract. He then worked without a club before he completed a trial at the Krefeld Penguins in the fall of 2010. In late November 2010, he was then taken by the management of penguins under contract. For the season 2012/13 he moved to league rivals Hannover Scorpions. Due to various injuries, he was able to complete only 21 games for the Lower Saxony, where he scored four points. After a year in Hannover, the striker completed in the 2013/14 season to the Heilbronner Falken.

Internationally

For Russia Schwidki took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 1999 and 2000.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Statistics

(End of season 2012/ 13)

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