Ravil Gusmanov
Ravil Midechatowitsch Gusmanow (Russian Равиль Мидехатович Гусманов; born July 25, 1972 in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and current coach.
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Career
Ravil Gusmanow began his career as a hockey player with the HC Traktor Chelyabinsk, for up to 1994 he was active from 1990 in the Russian Super League and in the 1992/93 season runner-up of the CIS was. During this period he was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 in the fourth round as a total of 93 players from the Winnipeg Jets, for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1995/96 season, where he point in four games - and remained unpunished. The rest of the season he spent as well as the pre-season at Winnipeg's farm team in the American Hockey League, the Springfield Falcons. From 1996 to 1998, the attacker stood for the Indianapolis Ice of the International Hockey League and the Saint John Flames and Chicago Wolves in the American Hockey League on the ice.
In the summer of 1998 Gusmanow returned to Russia, where he was obliged by Metallurg Magnitogorsk. With Magnitogorsk he was in the following decade, three times champion ( 1999, 2001 and 2007) and twice won the European Hockey League ( 1999, 2000). In addition, the winger in 2004 with Metallurg was runner and won the 2005 with his team the Spengler Cup and the 2008 IIHF European Champions Cup. During this period, he was taken on June 21, 2001 by the Minnesota Wild of the NHL under contract for their AHL farm team Houston Aeros, however, he had only done a game before he returned to Magnitogorsk.
After Gusmanow had also started the 2008/09 season with Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League, he changed the course of the season in the KHL for HC Traktor Chelyabinsk, where he had begun his career and ended in July 2010.
Since then, he is an assistant coach of HC Traktor.
Internationally
For the CIS Gusmanow took part in the U20 World Youth Championship in 1992. For Russia, he took part in the World Championships in 1999, 2001 and 2002. In addition, he was in the squad of Russia at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
Awards and achievements
- 2001 Champion of Russia with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2004 Russian runner with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2005 Spengler Cup win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2007 Champion of Russia with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2008 IIHF European Champions Cup win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk