Evgeny Korolev (ice hockey)
Yevgeny Stepanovich Korolev (Russian: Евгений Степанович Королёв; born July 24, 1978 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian professional ice hockey player who was most recently with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.
Career
Yevgeny Korolev began his career as a hockey player with the Peterborough Petes, for by 1998 he was active from 1995 in the Ontario Hockey League, and with whom he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions 1996. In the course of the season 1997/98 he moved to the league rivals London Knights. During this time he was first selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1996 in the eighth round when a total of 192 players from the New York Islanders. However, since they did not receive him in the next two years under contract, he could be re-selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1998, where the Islanders chose him in the seventh round as a total of 182 players again.
After the defender in the 1998/99 season exclusively for the farm teams of the Islanders, who stood Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League and Roanoke Express of the East Coast Hockey League on the ice, he was in the 1999/2000 season his debut for New York in the National Hockey League. Overall, Korolev remained three years with the team on the East Coast before he was hired by Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Russian Super League in the summer of 2002, with which he was first Champion of Russia 2003. Then moved Korljow during the 2003/ 04 season to their league rivals Severstal Cherepovets, for which he played the following year and a half.
Prior to the 2005/06 season Korolev received a contract with HK Dynamo Moscow, with whom he won the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2006. After a season with Metallurg Novokuznetsk, he signed before the 2008/ 09 season with SKA St. Petersburg of the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League. In January 2011, Korolev was obliged by OHK Dynamo before he was taken in May 2011 by Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk under contract.
In May 2012, he returned to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, but completed by October of that year, no match for the club before the contract was dissolved.
Awards and achievements
Statistics
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