Mikhail Tyulyapkin
Mikhail Sergeyevich Tjuljapkin (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Тюляпкин; born May 4, 1984 in Gorky, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who is since May 2011 with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.
Career
Mikhail Tjuljapkin began his career as a hockey player at youth level of HK CSKA Moscow, for which he was active until 2001. Then the defender moved to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, with which he reached in the 2002/03 season as champions of the second-rate Wysschaja league promotion to the Super League. Previously, he had been already selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the ninth round in 2002 when a total of 268 players from the Minnesota Wild, for which he, however, never played. Instead, remained the links Sagittarius in Russia, where he was from 2004 to 2006 for Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the Super League on the ice. He then got a contract with the League rival Ak Bars Kazan, with whom he initially failed in the 2006/07 season in the championship final on HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk before he won with Kazan at European level the IIHF Continental Cup 2008.
For the 2008/09 season signed a contract with Tjuljapkin Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the Kontinental Hockey League newly founded and stood there until September 2010 under contract. After a season followed at HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk, before he returned in May 2011 to torpedo.
Internationally
For Russia Tjuljapkin participated in the U20 Junior World Championship 2004, where he finished fifth with his team.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 Master of Wysschaja League and promotion to the Super League with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
- 2007 Russian runner with Ak Bars Kazan
- 2008 IIHF Continental Cup win with Ak Bars Kazan
KHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)