Robert Burakovsky
Robert Burakovsky (* November 24, 1966 in Malmö) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who. Least until 2011 when Kallinge / Ronneby in the fourth Swedish league, Division 2, was under contract His younger brother, Mikael was also a professional hockey player.
Career
Robert Burakovsky began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior section of Malmo IF. From there, he moved in 1983 to the Under-20 Junior of Leksand IF. In 1985 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected in the eleventh round when a total of 217 players from the New York Rangers, for whom he never played then, however. Instead, he gave in the 1985/86 season his debut in the Elitserien, the highest Swedish league, for Leksand professional team. In his rookie year, he scored four goals and three assists in 19 games. In the following years, the winger was able to establish a regular place in Leksand and each belonged to the players with the best yield point within his team. In the 1988/89 season he reached with Leksand the playoff finals of the Elitserien, where he defeated his opponent Djurgårdens IF with his team in the best- of-five series with 1:3 victories. In the same season he scored in 50 games a total of 56 points scorer, with 29 goals. He then spent two years playing for Leksand league rivals AIK Solna, in which in the 1989/90 season he could once again increase. With 57 scorer points, including 28 goals, he was the best scorer of the Elitserien in the main round. For the 1991/92 season Burakovsky returned to his hometown club Malmö IF. With the Southern he was in the first season after his return instantly Swedish Champion. Especially in the playoffs, he was able to convince himself and was together with three other players with five -goal leading scorer in the playoffs.
After another year in Malmö, the right-handed shooter received for 1993/94 season a contract with the Ottawa Senators, for which he subsequently in 23 games in the National Hockey League was on the ice, scoring two goals and three assists. The majority of the playing time he spent at Ottawa's farm team, however, Prince Edward Iceland Senators in the American Hockey League. In the AHL he scored 67 points scorer, with 29 goals in 52 games. The 1994/95 season he spent at the Klagenfurt AC. During his first stop in Europe, he scored for the EC KAC in 31 games 68 scorer points, including 30 goals, in the Austrian Hockey League and failed with his team until the playoff semifinals. Then he returned once more to Malmo, for whom he played one and a half years in the Elitserien, before he moved to the middle of the season 1996 /97 to Kassel Huskies of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. The Hessen he remained seasonally across a year and was in this period to the top scorer of his team. In 39 DEL missions he scored 16 goals and 19 templates. Middle of the 1997/98 season, the Swede first joined JYP Jyvaskyla of the Finnish SM- liiga in, but finished the season in the league rivals Ilves Tampere, with which he was runner-up.
From 1998 to 2000 Burakovsky was in Switzerland in Fribourg- Gottéron in the National League A under contract, where he ran aground in his first year almost exclusively for the SC Herisau in the National League B. In the second Swiss league he scored in 35 games 70 points scorer. Towards the end of the season 1999/2000 he also came to a single application for the HC Ambri -Piotta in the NLA. In the 2000 /01 season, the former NHL player had with his former club Leksand IF the descent from the Elitserien accept, however, remained even in the Elitserien, where he was obliged by his hometown club Malmö. However, the 2001/02 season he finished with the DEG Metro Stars of the DEL. In the summer of 2002, the Rødovre Mighty Bulls joined from the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen. For the Danes, he could immediately take a leadership role and was in his first year at once in the main round in with 43 points scorer in his 27 stakes scorer in the league with 26 assists and also best assist provider. After he began the following season with the Mighty Bulls, he moved to the middle of the season for HC Merano Italy's Serie A1. Even with the southern Europeans he had no difficulties in adapting and scored 13 goals in 28 games and 22 templates.
From 2004 to 2006 he was again in Denmark under contract, but this time at AaB Ishockey. In both seasons, he was again top scorer of the AL-Bank Ligaen, and also elected to the All-Star team in 2006. The 2006/07 season began the former youth international also in Denmark, Herlev IK, which he left after only half a year, in order for one and a half years for the IK Pantern from his hometown of Malmö in the third Swedish league, Division 1 aground. In the 2007 /08 season he was top scorer and best assist provider of Group F Division 1 After the end of the season in Sweden, he received a contract for the rest of the season at the Swiss second division club EHC Biel. With this he was in the playoffs NLB champion and rose with his team on in the NLA. Although it was of the 41 year-old striker convince at Biel and 19 points scorer, of which six goals to achieve in 16 games, but he returned to his homeland, where he scored 59 points scorer for the fifth-tier Trelleborg Vikings in just 17 games. Most recently, he played from 2009 to 2011 for the Swedish fourth division Kallinge / Ronneby.
Internationally
For Sweden Burakovsky participated exclusively at the Junior World Cup 1986, where he finished fourth with his team. During the tournament in seven games, he scored a goal and an assist each.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 Best original donor of the AL-Bank Ligaen
- 2005 top scorer of the AL-Bank Ligaen
- 2006 top scorer of the AL-Bank Ligaen
- 2006 AL -Bank Ligaen All-Star team
- 2008 top scorer Division 1, Group F
- 2008 Best original donor Division 1, Group F
- 2008 NLB Champion and promotion to the NLA with the EHC Biel