Sergei Sorokin
Sergei Nikolayevich Sorokin (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Сорокин; born October 2, 1969 in Dzerzhinsk, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player who played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, among others, for the Düsseldorf EC and Hannover Scorpions in his playing days from 1985 to 2004 has.
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Career
Sergei Sorokin began his career as a hockey player with Torpedo Gorky, where he was active in the Soviet Hockey League from 1985 to 1989. He then moved to the league rivals HK Dynamo Moscow, which he held until 1995, four times won the national championship in 1991 - once the Soviet and three times that of CIS. During his time at the Brussels residents of the defenders in the NHL Entry Draft, was selected in the twelfth round than a total of 247 players in 1991 by the Winnipeg Jets, for whom he never played, however. Instead, he ran in the 1993/94 season in eleven games for their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Moncton Hawks, on and scored ten points scorer.
The entire main round of the 1994/95 season spent Sorokin at SHC Fassa in the Italian Serie A, before he returned to Dynamo before the play-offs and again a Russian champion. For the following season, he received a contract with the EC Düsseldorf, which won the German Championship at the end of the season. During the season 1997/98 the Links shooter was committed by the Hannover Scorpions, for which he ran aground in a total of nine games, before returning to the start of the 1998/99 season in his native Russia. There he stood for Avangard Omsk in HK 24 games of the Super League on the ice, in which he scored twelve points scorer.
In the summer of 1999, the Olympian closed from 1994 to his former club, the Düsseldorf EC, to, who had taken the course in the 2nd Bundesliga in the meantime. With DEG he managed to climb into the German Hockey League, in which he took part in the 2000 /01 season at the All-Star Game. After two years in the North Rhine - Westphalian capital Sorokin signed with Chimik Woskressensk from the second-rate Russian Wysschaja league with him in the season 2002/ 03 managed to return to the Super League. The Russians had the best plus / minus balance in the play- offs for promotion. His career ended the former DEL player following the 2003/ 04 season. In his last season he was both Woskressensk in their league rivals from the Super League, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, where he in 1985 - at that time still under the old name of the city of Gorky - had begun his career, as well as the EK Zell am See from the second-class Austrian National League under contract.
Internationally
For the Soviet Union Sorokin took part in the U20 World Youth Championship in 1988. In addition, he was in the squad of Russia at the world championships in 1993, 1994 and 1995, and at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.