Kazakhstan national ice hockey team
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The Kazakhstani national men's ice hockey team is controlled by Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation. Kazakhstan is currently ranked 15th in the world. In their first Olympic Games in 1998, the Kazakhs were able to win their preliminary group, surprising many, and would finish the tournament in 8th place. Kazakhstan has 1,800 current players registered in the country (0.01% of its population). Their head coach is Nikolay Myshagin.
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[edit] 2006 Olympic team
Goaltenders
- Vitaliy Yeremeyev
- Vitaly Kolesnik
- Kirill Zinovyev
Defensemen
- Artyom Argokov
- Alexey Koledayev
- Oleg Kovalenko
- Yevgeniy Pupkov
- Denis Shemelin
- Vitaliy Tregubov
- Alexey Troshchinskiy
- Alexey Vassilchenko
Forwards
- Sergey Alexandrov
- Nikolai Antropov-C
- Dmitriy Dudarev
- Alexander Koreshkov-A
- Yevgeniy Koreshkov
- Andrey Ogorodnikov
- Andrey Pchelyakov
- Fedor Polishchuk
- Andrey Samokhvalov
- Konstantin Shafranov
- Andrey Troshchinskiy
- Dmitriy Upper-A
[edit] 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships roster
[edit] Goalkeepers
- 1 Sergei Tambulov - Metallurg Serov
- 41 Roman Medvedev - Gornyak Rudnyi
[edit] Defenders
- 2 Yevgeniy Mazunyn - Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
- 26 Andrei Savenkov - Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
- 43 Yevgeniy Pupkov - SKA St. Petersburg
- 52 Aleksiy Kalendayev - HC Sibir Novosibirsk
- 64 Artem Argokov - Metallurg Novokuznetsk
- 7 Aleksiy Litvinenko - HC Spartak Moscow
- 12 Oleg Kovalenko - Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
- 16 Yevgeniy Blokhin - HC MVD Tver
[edit] Forwards
- 8 Andrey Troschinsky - Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
- 9 Vadim Rifel - Freiburg (Germany)
- 11 Talgat Zhaylauov - Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
- 17 Aleksandr Koreshkov - Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamegorsk
- 18 Konstantyn Shafranov - Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
- 19 Yevgeniy Koreshkov - Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
- 22 Andrey Ogorodnikov - Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
- 23 Andrey Pchelyakov - Krylia Sovetov
- 25 Andrey Samakhvalov - Khimik Voskresensk
- 32 Nikolai Zarzhitskiy - Motor Barnaul
- 36 Andrey Spiridonov - Barys Astana
- 81 Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev - Avangard Omsk
[edit] Olympic record
- 1920-1992 - Part of the Soviet Union
- 1994 - Did not qualify
- 1998 - Finished in 8th place
- 2002 - Did not qualify
- 2006 - Finished in 9th place
[edit] World Championships record
- 1930-1992 - Part of the Soviet Union
- 1993 - Finished in 19th place (3rd in "Pool C")
- 1994 - Finished in 24th place (4th in "Pool C")
- 1995 - Finished in 22nd place (2nd in "Pool C")
- 1996 - Finished in 21st place (Won "Pool C")
- 1997 - Finished in 14th place (2nd in "Pool B")
- 1998 - Finished in 16th place
- 1999 - Finished in 19th place (3rd in "Pool B")
- 2000 - Finished in 18th place (2nd in "Pool B")
- 2001 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in "Division I, Group B")
- 2002 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in "Division I, Group A")
- 2003 - Finished in 17th place (Won "Division I, Group A")
- 2004 - Finished in 13th place
- 2005 - Finished in 12th place
- 2006 - Finished in 15th place
- 2007 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in "Division I, Group A")
