Alexey Tsvetkov: hockey player's career and awards

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Alexey Tsvetkov is a hockey player of the Dynamo club (Moscow). Together with the club, he plays in the Continental Hockey League.

Career start

Alexey Sergeyevich Tsvetkov was born in 1981 in Rybinsk. He began his career as a professional hockey player in 1999. His first hockey team was the Severstal club from the city of Cherepovets. He became a player of the Cherepovets team even earlier, but Tsvetkov failed to break into the main team, so for several seasons he played for the farm club.

In 2000, Tsvetkov became a player of St. Petersburg SKA. The contract with the club from St. Petersburg was for four years. After the expiration of the agreement, the player left for Salavat Yulaev. In the new team, the striker spent only two fights, after which he moved to the hockey club of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which played in the Major League. In 2005, the club made its debut in the Super League. In the five years that Alexei Tsvetkov spent as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the hockey player has become a real leader.

In 2010, he returned to Severstal again, where he managed to immediately become the main central striker of the Cherepovets team. After two years of playing in Cherepovets, Tsvetkov signed a contract with Dynamo Moscow.

Moscow Dynamo

Aleksey began to play immediately in the starting lineup of Muscovites. In each of the seasons for Dynamo, he spent more than 40 fights. In his debut season, the hockey player took part in 44 regular season games and 21 playoff meetings. The attacker's utility index was +15, and he managed to score 21.

In the second season, he scored even more points - 28. The hockey player's usefulness index was +18, which is the best in his career for Alexei. In the playoffs, he managed to play only 7 matches.

In the third season, the striker played 50 games, scored 8 goals and gave 15 assists. The utility index fell by half and amounted to +9. The 2015/16 season was the best in the career of a hockey player in terms of the number of matches played. There were 58 of them. In these meetings, Tsvetkov scored 39 points, which is the best indicator in his career.

Last season, the striker was able to score 7 goals and give 17 assists. In the regular season of the Continental Hockey League, Alexei Tsvetkov played 43 games, but did not participate in the playoffs.

Personal performance

In his first season at the professional level, the hockey player played in 9 matches for Severstal in the regular season and 2 more in the playoffs. He never managed to score with effective actions.

Aleksey Tsvetkov scored his first goal for SKA in the 2000/01 season. In total, Alexey took part in 144 matches for the team from St. Petersburg and scored 33 points according to the “goal + pass” system.

The hockey player became the real leader of the attack in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He managed to score 148points. Two years after the "second coming" became the best player on the team. In two seasons, he played 51 matches, in which he was able to score 34 points in the "goal + pass" system. Alexey scored 9 goals and 25 assists.

At this point in his career, Alexey Tsvetkov played 454 games in the regular season, in which he scored 72 goals and gave 193 assists, scoring 265 points. In the playoffs, the hockey player played 82 meetings, scored 17 goals and became the author of 23 assists.

The striker scored the most goals in the seasons 2009/10 and 2013/14 - 12 each. The maximum number of passes he gave in the seasons 2008/09 and 2015/16 - 32 each.

Achievements

Aleksey Tsvetkov can boast of one personal achievement - in 2010, as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the striker became the team's top scorer in the playoffs of the Continental Hockey Line.

The player also has two KHL medals: silver and gold. Alexey Tsvetkov won silver in 2010, and he managed to get gold in his first season as part of Dynamo Moscow, when in 2013 the capital's hockey players were able to win the Gagarin Cup. It was Tsvetkov's goal that brought victory in the final to the Moscow club, which was scored against Traktor in extra time.