Konstantin Shafranov
Konstantin Vitalyevich Schafranow (Russian Константин Витальевич Шафранов; born September 11, 1968 in Ust- Kamenogorsk, Kazakh SSR ) is a retired Kazakh hockey players, who in his active from 1985 to 2010 was for the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League played.
Career
Konstantin Schafranow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk, for the first team to 1994 he was active in the highest Soviet league of 1985, initially in the then second-rate Perwaja League, and after the rise in 1989. During the 1993/94 season, he also came up with four inserts for the Detroit Falcons of the Colonial Hockey League. In the 1994/95 season, the attacker ran for Metallurg Magnitogorsk. After he began the following season in Magnitogorsk, he finished it at the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League before he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the ninth round in 1996 when a total of 229 players from the St. Louis Blues. In the 1995/96 season of the Kazakh national team played its only five games in the National Hockey League for the St. Louis Blues, but the rest of the time he spent at his farm team, the Worcester IceCats of the American Hockey League.
For the 1997/98 season Schafranow returned to the Fort Wayne Komets of the IHL before he was in the following season with his former club HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk for the first and only time in his career, Champion of Russia. In the same year he won with his team at the European level, the European Hockey League. After the end of the season in the Russian Super League winger played two games for Fort Wayne in the IHL playoffs. The Komets he remained in the following season after their move to the United Hockey League. In parallel, he was in the 1999/2000 season for the AHL team of the Providence Bruins on the ice.
From 2000 to 2003 Schafranow was one for each season in the league Wysschaja, the second Russian league, the HK Sibir Novosibirsk, HK CSKA Moscow and Chimik Woskressensk under contract, where he rose to 2003 with Chimik in the Super League. In this he also began the 2003/04 season with his team before he was hired by the League rival Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. With Novgorod he rose from the end of the season, however, and spent the following season again in the Wysschaja league. After he started the 2005/06 season at Krylia Sovetov Moscow, he returned shortly before the end of the season to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, with which he reached in 2007 as second division champions the promotion back to the Super League. Then, the two -time Olympian changed again to the Fort Wayne Komets to the IHL. There, he finished his career in 2010.
Internationally
For Schafranow Kazakhstan took part in the C world championships in 1993 and 1994, and the B World Cup 2001 part. In addition, he was in the squad of Kazakhstan to the A- 1998 World Championships, 2005, 2006 and 2010, as well as at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in 1998 and 2006 in Turin.