Position Right Wing Name Konstantin Koltsov Career start 1998 Playing career Weight 101 kg | National team Belarus Height 1.86 m Shoots Left Role Ice hockey player Current team HC Sochi | |
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Born April 17, 1981 (age 43)
Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, URS ( 1981-04-17 ) KHL team
Former teams Ak Bars Kazan
BHL
Dynamo Minsk
NHL
Pittsburgh Penguins
AHL
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins
RSL
Severstal Cherepovets
Spartak Moscow
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Ak-Bars Kazan
KHL
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Atlant Moscow Oblast NHL Draft 18th overall, 1999
Pittsburgh Penguins Similar People Kirill Koltsov, Sidney Crosby, Vener Safin, Vyacheslav Butsayev, Mike Johnston | ||
Konstantin Koltsov Game Winner
Kanstancin Jaŭhenavič Kalcoŭ (Belarusian: Канстанцін Яўгенавіч Кальцоў, Russian: Константин Евгеньевич Кольцов) (born April 17, 1981 in Minsk, BSSR (now Belarus)) is a Belarusian former professional ice hockey player who last played for HC Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
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Playing career
Koltsov started out playing for Junactva Miensk in the Belarusian 1st division during the 1997–98 season, and moved to Russian Severstal Cherepovets for the next season. Due to his incredible speed and stick handling, he was often referred to as the "Russian Rocket II" due to his similar playing style to that of Russian great Pavel Bure.
He was drafted to the NHL in the 1999 entry draft as the Pittsburgh Penguins' first round pick, making him the 18th player overall in the draft. He played for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the AHL in the 2002–03 season, and started playing full-time for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2003–04 season, playing 82 games and scoring nine goals and twenty assists.
During the NHL lockout, Koltsov played for the Spartak Moscow hockey team.
The following season, Koltsov moved between Wilkes-Barre and Pittsburgh until January where he stayed in the NHL until the end of the season finishing with 3 goals and 6 assists. However, as a result of the Penguins not extending a qualifying offer, Koltsov became an unrestricted free agent on July 1, 2006. In August of that year he returned to Russia, signing a contract to play for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Russian Super League.
During the 2007–08 RSL season, Koltsov would be a part of a Salavat Yulaev Ufa squad that would defeat Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to capture the RSL League Title. With the absorption of the RSL into the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) at the start of the 2008–09 season, Salavat Yulaev Ufa would become the last standing RSL champion.
On November 27, 2016, Koltsov made his retirement from professional hockey official after competing in 18 seasons.
International play
Koltsov has played on the Belarus national team in the Winter Olympics and IIHF World Championships.