Yuri Gunko
Yuri Dmytrowytsch Hunko (Ukrainian Юрій Дмитрович Гунько, Russian Юрий Дмитриевич Гунько / Yuri Dmitrievich Gunko; born February 28, 1972 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian ice hockey player who is under contract with HK Sokol Kiev since 2007.
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Career
Yuri Hunko began his career as a hockey player in his hometown when SchWSM Kiev, for the first team, he was active in the second Soviet division from 1988 to 1990. He then played two years in parallel for the HK Sokol Kiev in the highest Soviet league, and continues to occasionally for SHWSM Kiev in the second division. From 1992 to 1995, the defender has performed with the Ukrainian capital Kiev Sokol club in the International Hockey League. He then moved to the Russian league rivals Ak Bars Kazan, with whom he in the Super League, founded two years earlier won the Russian championship in 1998.
For the season 1999/2000 Hunko signed a contract with the Hannover Scorpions of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. For Lower Saxony, he scored in his only DEL season in 44 games two goals and six assists. For the 2000/01 season of Ukrainians returned to Ak Bars Kazan, but was unable to repeat the successful period of the 1990's there so he became the following season from HK CSKA Moscow from the Wysschaja League, the second Russian league, obliged. From 2002 to 2006 the national team stood by his former club HK Sokol Kiev under contract by which he took part in the Belarusian Extraliga, the international East European Hockey League and the Ukrainian Hockey League. In all four seasons, he won with his team while the national championship. During the 2003/ 04 season he also played twice for Gasowik Tyumen in the second Russian league.
The 2006/07 season spent mostly at Hunko HKm Zvolen in the Slovak Extraliga. However, towards the end of the season he returned to his Ukrainian homeland, where he completed two matches for his long- time club Sokol Kiev, before he won the Ukrainian league title with its city neighbors HK ATEK Kiev. Since 2007, the links Sagittarius plays again for Sokol Kiev, initially for two years in the Russian Wysschaja League and since 2009 in the Belarusian Extraliga, where he was parallel with Sokol's second team again Ukrainian champion 2009. In the season 2010/11 Hunko took with Sokol Kiev in part at the European level on the IIHF Continental Cup. With his team, he was automatically qualified for the third round of the competition, but failed with Sokol Kiev after defeats against SønderjyskE Ishockey from Denmark and Asiago from Italy to qualify for the Super Final.
Internationally
For the Soviet Union Hunko took part in the junior level at the U18 European Junior Championships in 1990. For Ukraine, he assumed the C world championships in 1993, 1994 and 1995, the B World Championships in 1998, 2008 and 2009, as well as the A World Championships in 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 in part. In addition, he was in the squad of his country at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but was not used during the tournament.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Ukrainian Champion with the HK Sokol Kiev
- 2007 Ukranian Champion with HK ATEK Kiev
- 2009 Ukrainian Champion with the HK Sokol Kiev