The Fab Five and the goalkeeper: the most eligible bachelors of Russian hockey. Igor Shesterkin: I explain something to Koskinen on my fingers, but he doesn’t understand (video) Shesterkin is the goalkeeper of which team

Since May 4, 2018, many sports fans have been watching the progress of the World Hockey Championship with bated breath. This year Russia sent a surprisingly young team to the competition. Average age domestic athletes are 25-27 years old, which means their personal lives are riveted Special attention. Who are they, the most eligible bachelors of modern hockey?

KIRILL KAPRIZOV

On April 26, Kirill Kaprizov turned 21, and he has already become a national hero. It was this young hockey player who scored the winning goal against the German national team, snatching a long-awaited victory for Russia at the Olympics.

In March 2018, information appeared that the hockey player had allegedly become close to figure skater Alina Zagitova. According to media reports, the athletes talked for a long time on the plane on the way from the Olympic Pyeongchang, and left Sheremetyevo airport together.

However, Kirill and Alina prefer not to comment on this information. Perhaps this is due to the fact that Olympic champion By figure skating In a couple of weeks I will only be 16 years old.

Previously, Kaprizov said that he had a girlfriend, but did not name her. On Instagram young man Photos often appear with representatives of the fair sex. However, Kirill prefers not to answer all questions regarding his personal life.

VLADISLAV GAVRIKOV

Defender Vladislav Gavrikov will turn 23 this year. The young man has already become a bronze medalist at the World Hockey Championship in 2017, and is now successfully playing for the SKA team from St. Petersburg.

Vladislav is not officially married, but has long been in a relationship with an attractive brunette named Anastasia. Recently, a man touchingly congratulated his beloved on the sixth anniversary of their relationship. His Instagram is replete with photos of them together, and every year the athlete dedicates a touching post to his other half on her birthday.

“This is more than just a photo. This is all you are, my dear. Happy birthday, my love,” Gavrikov once wrote, posting a touching photo with his beloved.

Fans of the hockey player are sure that very soon Vladislav and Anastasia will officially become spouses. The girl often attends matches with Gavrikov and supports him in everything.

ARTEM ZUB

More recently, Artem Zub became Olympic champion together with the hockey team. In Pyeongchang, he was supported by his beloved Evgenia, with whom the man had been dating for more than two years. It is known that the lovers met in Khabarovsk, and then moved to St. Petersburg.

Evgenia never tires of admitting how proud she is of her chosen one. So, in 2017, when the SKA team won the Gagarin Cup, the girl dedicated a touching post on Instagram to Artem.

“Today is a double holiday, the first anniversary of the relationship, and the best gift for the holiday is the success of my beloved! My man is my champion, my pride, my love,” wrote Evgenia.

It is known that the girl works in one of the beauty salons of the cultural capital. She is a hair care specialist. Artem’s fans are sure that he is incredibly lucky with his chosen one, because Evgenia tries to support the athlete in everything, not missing matches with his participation.

IGOR SHESTERKIN

Goalkeeper Igor Shesterkin is 22 years old, and the young man has already established himself in the world of hockey. He is often called up to the national team, but does not always take to the ice. Since Vasily Koshechkin is still considered the main goalkeeper.

A couple of years ago, information appeared that Igor was involved in a romantic relationship with the star of “House-2” Tatyana Okhulkova. The girl often posted photos on Instagram with hockey matches, but preferred not to comment on the affair with Shesterkin.

A little later, a rumor about the hockey player’s affair with another Dom-2 participant, Yulia Isaeva, became widespread. TV presenter Alla Mikheeva managed to interview the girl as part of the “Evening Urgant” program. During her conversation with the correspondent, she clearly hinted at the romantic status of her relationship with Shesterkin.

“After the match it will be clear whether I am free or not. My boyfriend is a hockey player... Shesterkin is a very good person. He hits well and scores too,” Isaeva said, laughing.

Igor himself then denied information about their romance. The young man continues to dodge questions about his personal life, emphasizing that hockey always comes first for him.

SERGEY KALININ

27-year-old native of Omsk Sergei Kalinin is in no hurry to get married. Instead, the man concentrates on sporting achievements, which bears fruit. In 2016, he became a bronze medalist at the World Hockey Championship, and in 2018 he received gold medal in Pyeongchang.

Previously, information appeared that Sergei was dating a mysterious stranger whom he met back in Omsk. The couple often appeared together at social events. However, it is now unknown whether the athlete’s heart is free.

In one interview, Kalinin noted that the support of loved ones is important to him. According to the hockey player, the wives of his teammates should always be present in the stands to empathize and root for their other halves. Next, the man emphasized that he himself had not yet officially entered into marriage, but hoped to soon meet the one and only one.

PAVEL BUCHNEVICH

The sporting fate of Pavel Buchnevich resembles a fairy tale. In 2016, a 21-year-old athlete from the city of Cherepovets signed a contract with the New York Rangers team and left for the USA. The young man happily talked in an interview about his first impressions of living in America and the local hockey style.

While communicating with journalists, Pavel also let slip about his personal life. He noted that his girlfriend often visits him in the USA, but the couple does not live together yet. The other half is waiting for Buchnevich in Cherepovets, where he tries to come every year to meet with relatives and friends.

However, fans do not know the name of Pavel’s chosen one and how long their relationship lasts. While all the hockey player’s thoughts are busy sports career. Moreover, this year he was called up to the Russian national team for the first time to participate in the World Championship.

Igor Shesterkin is a young hockey player who can boast of a lot of achievements and great prospects. Sports career The hockey player began by playing for the Krylya Sovetov club in Moscow. Igor got into the Spartak youth team as a result of selection at the annual junior fair in the Kontinental Hockey League. At the same time, the young man played for the Russian youth hockey team. Except sports awards, received on domestic and international competitions, Igor is among the eligible bachelors.

Childhood and youth

Igor Olegovich Shesterkin was born in Moscow on New Year's Eve 1995 - December 30. Nothing is known about the family of the young athlete. Igor also does not like to talk to journalists about his childhood.

Igor ended up in the hockey section absolutely by accident. A peer of the future hockey player who lived next door suggested that Shesterkin go and watch the children’s section practice. The guys, who masterfully handled the stick and puck on the ice, inspired Igor to his own victories. Although before this the child was successfully swimming. But since Igor grew up as an active child, the adrenaline at hockey matches attracted him much more than the calm waters of the pool.

By the way, Igor, the son of short parents, associates his height with swimming. According to the information provided on the official KHL website, Shesterkin’s height is 185 cm and his weight is 83 kg.

Shesterkin showed his first sporting achievements as a member of the “Wings of the Soviets” hockey team (they were called “Wings” among themselves). Among the first coaches, Igor in an interview recalls Evgeniy Sergeevich Poleev and Igor Gennadievich Efimov. The athlete remembers Poleev with particular warmth. As part of Krylia, Igor played in the Moscow Hockey Federation Cup matches, as well as in youth tournaments.

Hockey

In May 2012, the KHL draft procedure took place at the Traktor Ice Arena in Chelyabinsk. During the fair, representatives of the professional hockey club“Spartak” paid attention to a capable 17-year-old young man. So Igor entered professional sports, but first as a player in a youth hockey club. Shesterkin played 13 matches for the youth team, showing himself to be a professional hockey player capable of playing in the Major League. Playing for Spartak was a great honor for the young man; his father supported this club.

Already in February 2013, Shesterkin’s name was listed in the application for the match Major League against the Slovak club Slovan. However, that time Igor remained on the bench. But after 2 weeks the young athlete made his debut in hockey tournament"Cup of Hope". The goalkeeper of the main team, Jan Lashak, played unsuccessfully, conceding 2 goals in a short period of time. Then the coach decided to put young Igor Shesterkin on the ice. Igor showed himself talented goalkeeper with an excellent response. After spending almost an hour on the ice, Shesterkin missed only 1 goal.

Thanks to his masterful performance in that match, Igor prepared for the 2013-2014 season with the main squad. The hockey player's finest hour struck in a match that took place on October 31, 2013. “Spartak” fought with the Austrians from “Red Bull”, throughout the game the forces were equal and in the last seconds it was Shesterkin who scored the decisive goal, which brought victory to “Spartak” and popularity to its goalkeeper. And although this match took place only within the youth league, for Igor it turned out to be the most important milestone in sports biography.

4 months later, Shesterkin was already playing in the first team for Spartak, but in that match, Ugra, representing the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, won a landslide victory. Despite the unsuccessful start to the year, in 2014 Shesterkin took over as the club’s main goalkeeper and played most of the matches on the ice.

And already in mid-2014, Igor and 15 more of his colleagues ice arena signed a contract with the SKA club from St. Petersburg. At the same time, information appeared in the media that it was Shesterkin who became main goal coach of SKA, and the rest of the players turned out to be secondary. Soon Igor left Russia and went to the USA, where he became part of the National Club hockey league New York Rangers.

At the same time, Igor continued to play in the KHL for SKA, although not always successfully. However, in the 2014-2015 season, Shesterkin, as part of his club, won the playoff tournament and received the Gagarin Cup.

Successfully developed and international career Russian hockey player, as evidenced by official statistics. In 2014, Igor became the winner of the annual series of 6 hockey matches between the Russian youth team and the Canadian Hockey League teams. And in 2015, the Russian youth team with Shesterkin as the main goalkeeper earned silver medals at the World Championships.

In 2016, the senior Russian national team included Igor in the squad, but the young man remained on the bench, although he received bronze medals for taking 3rd place. But in the period from November 3 to 6, matches for the Karjala Cup were held in Finland, where Igor stood at the goal. At the end of the match, the team received gold medals.

Personal life

Igor does not like to tell journalists and fans about his family or personal life. However, information appeared in the media that Tatyana Okhulkova, a participant in the scandalous television show “Dom-2,” unexpectedly became interested in hockey and does not miss a single match with Shesterkin’s participation.

Then there were persistent rumors that Igor and his girlfriend Tatyana were in a relationship, but they carefully concealed this fact. However, neither the athlete nor Okhulkova officially confirmed this information.

Pictured in "Instagram" Igor periodically appears in women's society, but each time the athlete poses in the company of new beauties. In his free time, Igor attends social events and travels

Igor Shesterkin now

In the 2016-2017 season, Igor Shesterkin finally joined the senior Russian national football team and was even recognized as the best goalkeeper in the series friendly matches between national teams.

And in 2017, Igor again became a bronze medalist at the World Hockey Championship without ever stepping on the ice.

In January 2018, Igor took part in the annual friendly game, held with the participation of the strongest KHL hockey players. The venue for the games was Astana. Regarding the holding of the Olympic Games in 2018, Shesterkin does not want to discuss this topic in the media.

If Russian hockey were a fairy tale, then SKA in it would certainly be a fire-breathing dragon that steals babies and burns villages with one breath. This is the prevailing image of the monster that the club from St. Petersburg has been working for for years. It is believed that the “army men” from the banks of the Neva are purchased by players indiscriminately and from yesterday’s provincial leaders in as soon as possible make shopkeepers.

In reality, there are slightly more lost souls in the SKA collection than in the conventional Ak Bars, but, for example, degradation Evgenia Ketova quite eloquent. Together with him, until recently, SKA was also considered a victim of the “bloody regime” Igor Shesterkin.

Just last fall, literally everyone who was concerned about Shestyorkin’s fate shouted in unison: “The guy is missing!” I didn’t favor the young goalkeeper, only including him in the lineup on major holidays. Shesterkin managed to get on the ice for the first time only at the end of November, when the coaching castling between Nazarov and Zubov was made in St. Petersburg. This was Igor’s second season in the Northern capital, but the long-awaited breakthrough did not happen. After six matches in the 2014/15 season, seven games in the last championship looked like nothing more than a sop. One of the most talented goalkeepers in the country sat on the bench and had virtually no chance to prove himself. And this at a time when other clubs were in dire need of a backup, or even a main goalkeeper.

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From the very beginning, it seemed that Shestyorkin was uncomfortable in his uniform with a star on his chest. Just look at the loud statement that he remains a Spartak player, even playing for SKA. Igor is a straightforward guy, youthfully open. He once expressed his dissatisfaction with his role publicly, something that players of even higher status rarely do. It seemed that Shesterkin and SKA were not on the same path.

From the very beginning, it seemed that Shestyorkin was uncomfortable in his uniform with a star on his chest. Just look at the loud statement that he remains a Spartak player, even playing for SKA.

During the more than two years that the goalkeeper spent in St. Petersburg, he could have left the army camp several times. He was ready to be transported to Yekaterinburg Leonid Weisfeld, and “Siberia” looked closely at him as a possible backup for Salak. However, the most realistic option was with Spartak. Last summer, Muscovites chose between Shestyorkin and Ivannikov, but when they settled on Evgenia, they seriously miscalculated.

Igor Shesterkin is only 20 years old, and his career has already gone through more than one serious turn. He twice became a participant in the mass transfer of players from one club to another. First, Igor moved from his native Krylya Sovetov to Spartak, and then became part of a high-profile exchange involving 16 (!) Spartak players to SKA. Few people will remember who moved with Shesterkin to the club from St. Petersburg. Artyom Batrak, for example, without ever trying on the army uniform, he ended his career and went on TV to build a career as a commentator. Nikolay Demidov, who once played with Shesterkin for the junior team, survived a serious injury and now plays in Angarsk. From the entire huge list, only two remained in the SKA system: Arkhip Nekolenko, another Spartak player with roots from Setun, and, in fact, Shestyorkin himself.

Shesterkin's righteous rebellion

The transfer of 16 ex-Spartak players to SKA resulted in some already leaving the club from St. Petersburg, while others were dissatisfied with their role.

Even despite the fact that he was born in 94-95. Russia is generous with goalkeeping talents; Shesterkin always had a place in the national team. This further emphasizes how dangerous it was for our entire hockey to marinate it on the St. Petersburg bench. In the form of the national team, Igor held two excellent tournaments, which, alas, ended in huge disappointment. On the ice of the Bolshoi in 2013, the team Igor Kravchuk demonstrated nice and sincere hockey, and Shesterkin’s tears were just as sincere after losing to the Americans in the semifinals.

Right now, Shesterkin is the hottest goalie in the league. In the match with Jokerit, he recorded his fifth shutout of the season and the fourth in a row.

It was painful to watch the young goalkeeper in Toronto, where in the 2015 World Cup final he was hit by a Canadian skating rink and gave up his place in goal to Sorokin by the third minute. All these harsh blows of fate, coupled with a hopeless position in the club, could break a guy with a still fragile psyche.

It is difficult to understand where the turning point occurred in the romance between Shesterkin and SKA. Some will say that the World Cup helped him win his place in goal. The departure of Mikko Koskinen to the Finnish national team left the coaching staff with no choice but to involve someone from the Shesterkin-Ivannikov tandem. It can be assumed that Igor’s inclusion in the Russian national team for the home World Cup gave a new impetus to Igor’s career. Even though he didn’t play a single match in Moscow and was largely a decorative figure, a couple of weeks in the same boat with the best hockey players countries is a huge experience. And a medal at the adult world championship, even a bronze one, is a milestone in one’s career. There is, however, another version of why SKA finally turned to Shesterkin. And she is connected with... CSKA, Dmitry Kvartalnov And Ilya Sorokin.

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The departure of Mikko Koskinen to the Finnish national team left the coaching staff with no choice but to involve someone from the Shesterkin-Ivannikov tandem.

So SKA, it seems, came to their senses after another “army” club, without sentimentality or prejudice, made a choice in favor of a young goalkeeper rather than a multimillion-dollar Swede. But at the beginning of last season, Sorokin’s position in CSKA was little better than Shesterkin’s role in SKA. However, the plowing of the Novokuznechanin and the courage of Kvartalnov led to a real revolution at the last frontier of the Muscovites: Stanislav Galimov went to Kazan, and Viktor Fast went to the bench.

Right now, Shesterkin is the hottest goalie in the league. In the match with Jokerit, he recorded his fifth shutout of the season and the fourth in a row. Igor has no equal in his collection of “crackers” among Kakhael goalkeepers, as well as in the duration of the dry streak for SKA goalkeepers. In the game with the "jesters", the 20-year-old goalkeeper set a club record. It's too early to say Koskinen fate awaits Fasta, but he has already proven that Shesterkin can now be considered on a par with the Finnish giant. The more than two years that Igor spent in St. Petersburg are a story about patience and hands that do not give up even in a hopeless situation. A real talent can break through even the millstones of a super club and become one of the 16 who remain afloat.

Igor Shesterkin: I explain something to Koskinen using my fingers, but he doesn’t understand (video)

Russian national team goalkeeper Igor Shesterkin gave an interview to a Soviet Sport observer after the team’s training session in Helsinki.

- Igor, are you ready to play against the Swedes on Saturday if you get the opportunity?
- This is Y coaching staff need to ask if I'll play. If anything happens, I'm ready, of course.

- Weren’t you surprised that the match between the Czech Republic and Sweden turned out to be so big – 6:3?
- I didn’t even know how they played. Who even won? Czech Republic? Happenes.

- Mikko Koskinen, your partner in SKA, was injured and dropped out until the end of the tournament. How do you react to such news?
“It’s a shame that he got injured.” But this is hockey, no one is immune here. I haven't talked to him about this yet. However, I was told that Koskinen will miss three weeks.

- How do you feel that now you will have more workload at the club?
- I’ll play – that’s good. I'll try to live up to expectations.

- What is your general relationship with Koskinen at SKA?
- When one is a foreign player, and the other goalkeeper does not speak English, what kind of people can they be? We don't really communicate. So, I explain something to him on my fingers. Does he really not understand?

- Why don’t you learn the language? The Rangers selected you in the draft.
- I try, but it doesn’t work out very well.

- One day you will go to the NHL.
- Then I’ll learn.

- You are performing well for SKA. But is it difficult to match the level of such a club?
- Yes, we really have very strong team. Everyone works on defense and attack. I just try to do my job, catch pucks. In any case, I still need to improve and improve – both mentally and physically. There's more to come.

- As a player, your goal is to get to the World Cup?
- It’s important for me now to gain a foothold in SKA and prove myself as best as possible every time. And then it’s up to fate to decide.

- How important is it that you have such a legendary player as Pavel Datsyuk in your locker room?
- Nice to talk, ask something. Pavel gives advice. Sometimes he makes fun of people in shootouts. But it’s okay, you remember something new. This will definitely help.

- Does Datsyuk tell the goalkeeper where forwards like to throw?
- No – for example, what can be done before training. We work with him sometimes. A very nice person.

source: " Soviet sport»

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Igor Shesterkin was born on December 30, 1995 in Moscow. He is a graduate of the Moscow hockey school“Wings of the Soviets”, for which he began to play at the Moscow Federation Cup level, open championship Moscow, among youths and the Moscow Junior League.

At the 2012 KHL junior draft, he was selected by Spartak Moscow in the second round, 31st overall. Almost immediately he was announced for his youth team. Before joining the main team, he played 13 matches for the youth team.

In February 2013, I was included in the application for the first time KHL match, in a match against Slovan Bratislava, but did not take to the ice. After that, he remained a backup until the end of the regular season, in two more meetings. He made his debut for the main team in the second match of the 2013 Hope Cup quarterfinals against Dynamo Minsk, replacing Jan Lashak in the first period after he conceded two goals in two minutes. For the rest of the match, Igor stopped 18 of 19 shots and spent 48 minutes and one second on the court.

In the 2014 season, he held pre-season training camps with the main team and, as a result, was included in the application list for the main team of the “red-whites” for the season. In a home match of the youth hockey league against Red Bull from Salzburg, Igor scores his first goal in his career, hitting the opponent’s empty net a few seconds before the end of the match, setting the final score in the match in favor of the red-white youth team. At the end of January 2014, he made his debut in the KHL regular season for the main team of Spartak, in an away game against Khanty-Mansiysk Ugra, replacing Alexey Ivanov in the third period.

Igor Shesterkin was the main goalkeeper of Spartak in the victorious 2014 Kharlamov Cup. In June 2014, he became part of a group of 16 players acquired from the disbanded Spartak by SKA St. Petersburg. In June 2014, he was drafted 118th overall by the NHL Rangers.

Igor made his debut for the SKA team on November 29, 2014 in the game KHL season against Sibir, conceding 2 goals, SKA won with a score of 5:4. He is the winner of the Gagarin Cup as part of the St. Petersburg team. In the 2015 season he played in six matches.

He first played for the senior Russian national team on November 5, 2016 at the Karjala Cup against the Swedish national team. In 2017, he firmly established himself in the main Russian national team and took part in the EuroChallenge, where he was recognized as the best goalkeeper.

In the pre-Olympic season, Igor Shesterkin was included in the hockey team on January 25, 2018 to participate in the winter Olympic Games in the city of Pyeongchang. As part of the team, on February 25, 2018, he became the Champion of the Winter Olympic Games.

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2018 Continental Cup
2018 Olympic champion
2018 Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship
2017 Golden Helmet winner
2017 World Championship bronze medalist
2017 KHL All-Star Game
2017 Gagarin Cup
2017 Russian Champion
2015 Gagarin Cup
2016 World Championship bronze medalist
2015 Silver medalist of the Russian Championship
2015 Silver medalist of the World Youth Championship
2014 Subway Super Series Winner
2014 Kharlamov Cup
2012 Silver medalist of the MHL

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