Ice Hockey World Championship 2022: Kazakhstan - Squad, Coach, Achievements
Created: 05/13/2022, 17:54
At the 2021 Ice Hockey World Championships, Kazakhstan faced Germany in the preliminary round.
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The national team counts an eighth place at Olympic Games and a tenth place at World Championships among their best results.
The Kazakh national team plays at international level for the Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation and joined the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1992 as a member.
In addition to 13 European and two North American nations, Kazakhstan is the only team that represents the Asian continent.
As part of the 2022 Ice Hockey World Championships, Kazakhstan is one of eight teams in Group A and will face Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Switzerland and Slovakia in the preliminary round.
All preliminary round matches of this group will take place in Helsinki at Helsingin Jäähalli, Group B matches at Nokia Arena in Tampere.
Team boss of the Kazakhs is Yuri Mikhailis, he is supported by his three assistant coaches Rinat Abitov, Maxim Semyonov and Andrei Shayanov.
The national team of Kazakhstan: successes and defeats
The Kazakh national team is one of the most successful Asian ice hockey teams.
While Kazakhstan was ranked 15th in the world after the 2021 Ice Hockey World Championships, Japan and China, for example, were far behind in ranks 25 and 27. The Kazakh national team won their first international match on April 11, 1992 in Saint Petersburg against Ukraine with one result by 5:0. A 52:1 victory against Thailand should go down in team history as the greatest success.
The team experienced its biggest defeat in 1998 with a 15-0 loss against Canada, which is considered the favorite for the 2022 Ice Hockey World Championship.
The Kazakh national team qualified to take part in two Olympic Games and in 1998 they finished eighth.
The Kazakh national team and their squad for 2022
The Men's Ice Hockey World Championship 2022 in Finland will take place in Tampere and Helsinki from 13 to 29 May 2022.
The Kazakh national team will play its first game on May 14, 2022 against Denmark.
These players are part of the national team squad:
goalkeeper
Nikita Boyarkin from club HK Saryarka Karaganda, number 30
Andrei Shutov from the Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk club, number 31
Demid Yeremeyev from club HK Temirtau, number 20
defender
Jesse Blacker from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 9
Samat Daniyar from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 65
Darren Dietz from the Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 44
Alexei Maklyukov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 85
Valeri Orekhov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 28
Kirill Polokhov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 23
Yegor Shalapov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 4
Ivan Stepanenko from Beibarys Atyrau club, number 55
Viktor Svedberg from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 58
striker
Pavel Akolzin from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 18
Alikhan Asetov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 96
Sayan Daniyar from the Nomad Nur-Sultan association, number 77
Dmitri Gurkov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 68
Artyom Likhotnikov from the Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk club, number 11
Nikita Mikhailis from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 10
Kirill Panyukov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 22
Yegor Petukhov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 15
Yevgeni Rymarev from the HK Yugra club, number 88
Anton Sagadeyev from the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl club, number 89
Kirill Savitsky from the Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk club, number 84
Arkadi Shestakov from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 64
Dmitri Shevchenko from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 95
Alexander Shin from the Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk club, number 49
Roman Starchenko from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 48
Curtis Valk from Barys Nur-Sultan club, number 14
By Gabi Knapp
