List of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League

The following is a list of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). For the 2014-15 season, Ukrainians constitute the 14th most numerous nationality within the league. During the 2009-10 KHL season, 26[a] Ukrainian players participated in the competition, the most to date, out of the 41 total to have played. Alexei Zhitnik, along with Anton Babchuk and Nikolay Zherdev are of a select few to have been named to the annual All Star Game.

Oleg Tverdovsky became the first Ukrainian-born player to win the Gagarin Cup, doing so with HC Salavat Yulaev in 2010. In 2013, Kostiantyn Kasianchuk became the first Ukrainian national team player to do the same; after which the Cup was brought to Kiev in celebration.[1] According to Sokil Kyiv general manager Vyacheslav Zavalniuk, 13.5% of all players in the KHL have Ukrainian roots.[2]

Players
Anton Babchuk playing for HC Donbass in 2012
Vitaly Vishnevsky has played the most games of any Ukrainian in the KHL
Nikolay Zherdev playing for Atlant
Alexei Mikhnov playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2012
= Active in 2012-13 season = Signed for 2013-14 season = Active in 2013-14 season = Retired
NAT Name POS GP G A PTS Birthplace Team Ref.
Viktor AndrushenkoF5931114Kiev(Belarus)[3]
Vitali Anikeyenko[☦]D144143549Kiev-[4]
Anton Babchuk ★D80101525KievSalavat Yulaev[5]
Denis BayevD15691524Konotop(VHL)[6]
Yevgeni BelukhinF0000Arzamas-16Donbass[7][8]
Dmytriy BerezinG1---NovosibirskUnsigned[9]
Roman BlahoiF0000KievDonbass[10]
Anton ButLW2496682148KharkivUnsigned[11]
Denis DenisovD250326395KharkivCSKA[b][12]
Vitali DonikaC15011Kiev(VHL)[13]
Ruslan FedotenkoLW3381018KievDonbass[14]
Serhiy HaiduchenkoG78---KievDonbass[15]
Kostiantyn KasianchukF170293564KievDynamo[16]
Serhiy KlymentievD39246Kiev-[17]
Alexander KomaristyC176193756SeverodonetskNeftekhimik[18]
Maxim KvitchenkoF25011KievDonbass[19]
Vitaliy LiutkevychD20011Kiev(VHL)[20]
Oleksandr MaterukhinLW7000KievDinamo-Minsk[21]
Alexei MikhnovLW2004561106KievAtlant[22]
Andriy MikhnovLW109101222Kiev(Belarus)[23]
Yegor MorozovF0000[✪]TolyattiDonbass[24]
Artem OstroushkoD515813Kiev-[25]
Denis PetrukhnoD0000KievDonbass[26]
Fedor PolischukLW221204868KolodysteBarys[27]
Alexei PonikarovskyLW3251318KievKunlun[28]
Gennady RazinD23792938KharkivDonbass[29]
Andrei SergeyevD1044913SimferopolSpartak[30]
Oleh ShafarenkoF21246Kiev(Belarus)[31]
Vadym ShakhraychukC103151217KievUnsigned[32]
Vladislav ShalimovRW3000BelovoDonbass[33][34]
Egor ShastinF141344276Kiev(Swiss)[35]
Mykhailo ShevchukG0---KharkivDonbass[36]
Denis ShvidkiRW37347Kharkiv(MOL Liga)[37]
Dmytro ShvidenkoD0000LubnyUgra[38]
Yuri SilnitskyD16000TyumenDonbass[39][40]
Kostiantyn SimchukG13---Kiev-[41]
Daniil Sobchenko[☦]C51628Kiev-[42]
Alexei StrakhovRW25336Kharkiv-[43]
Volodymyr TkachevD5000DnipropetrovskAk Bars[44]
Oleksandr ToryanikRW0000KharkivDonbass[45]
Oleg TverdovskyD191295180Donetsk-[46]
Serhiy VarlamovLW133242650KievDonbass[47]
Vitaly VishnevskyD263254469KharkivLokomotiv[48]
Alexander Vyukhin[☦]G87---Sverdlovsk-[49]
Viktor ZakharovF0000KievDonbass[50]
Ignat ZemchenkoC809716KievSeverstal[51]
Nikolay Zherdev ★RW1554478122KievSeverstal[52]
Alexei Zhitnik ★D11241418Kiev-[53]

Note: A (★) denotes a player who has participated in an All Star Game
All statistics accurate to the end of the 2012–13 KHL season

Breakdown of players by nationality
5
10
15
20
25
30
  •   Ukraine
  •   Nationalized to Ukraine
  •   Russia
  •   Kazakhstan
  •   Belarus
  •   Neutral

Captains

Several players have acted as captains of their respective KHL clubs, including: Alexei Zhitnik (Dynamo Moscow); Vitaly Vishnevsky (SKA); Serhiy Varlamov, Ruslan Fedotenko,[54] (HC Donbass); and Nikolay Zherdev (Atlant)

Players of Ukrainian descent

The following is a list of KHL players who while not born in Ukraine, are of documented Ukrainian descent.

Notes

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