Hockey player Konstantin Volkov: sports achievements

Konstantin Volkov is a famous Russian hockey player. Acts in the position of the striker. He plays in the Kontinental Hockey League for the club "Motorist" from Ekaterinburg.

Biography of the hockey player

Konstantin Volkov was born in Leningrad in 1985. In this city, he took the first steps in the sport. He started his professional career in 2003, when he turned 18 years old. The first professional team of Volkov was the club "Izhorets", speaking in the First League of the Russian championship. Also, the athlete played in the Russian Hockey League for the team "Tver", CSK VVS from Samara, Togliatti "Lada", Podolsky "Vityaz", HC "Dmitrov" and another Podolsky club "Lynx".

In the Togliatti club, he even made his debut in the Super League, playing one match in the 2004/05 season. In the "Vityaz", he finally managed to prove himself to the fullest. For two and a half seasons in this team he scored 17 points on the system "goal + pass" (scored 10 goals, gave 7 assists). Total spent for the Podolsk team 78 games. And in another Podolsky team called "Lynx" Constantine became the club's top scorer. In the 2008/09 season, he played 61 games, where he scored 29 goals and gave 38 assists. On it, in fact, kept the whole team.

To Moscow!

Having proved himself in the second echelon of Russian hockey, a promising young player went to conquer Moscow. In 2010, Konstantin Volkov signed a contract with the HC MVD team from Balashikha. In the 2009/10 season, this club was one of the leaders of the Continental Hockey League. In the regular season, the team became the second in the Western Conference, winning 31 games out of 56. In the playoffs, the team in which Konstantin Volkov performed was very confident in CSKA (3-0 in the series) and Riga's Dynamo (4-1) . In the semifinals, the confrontation with the Yaroslavl "Locomotive" was protracted.

In Balashikha and Yaroslavl, the teams exchanged victories and went to the second round. In a home meeting, HC MVD loses "Lokomotiv" on all counts with a score of 0: 4, but in the return meeting, the "railroad" can not complete the ticket to the final. Ugarov, Soloviev and Babenko bring victory (3: 1), and the score in the series again becomes equal. The decisive seventh match is played in Balashikha. Tsvetkov and Kokarev in the second period provide victory to the hosts - 2: 1.

In the final Konstantin Volkov, a photo of which at that time was decorated with many sports publications, and his teammates met with the Kazan "Ak Bars". The series was not asked from the very beginning - the home of the HC MVD lost twice in a row. However, in Tatarstan he took back the debt, equalizing the score in the series - 2: 2. And having won in a home match, and at all has appeared ahead. The hockey players of Balashikha counted the championship in Kazan on April 25, but were defeated in all counts with a score of 7: 1. By the decisive, the seventh meeting, they never came to their senses, losing at home. Only silver medals were won by Konstantin Volkov. The hockey player became the vice-champion of the country.

In the capital's "Dynamo"

The next year the club from Balashikha was disbanded. Konstantin Volkov, whose biography was already clearly associated with hockey, signed a contract with the Moscow "Dynamo". In the 2010/11 season, he was one of the club's top hitters. I scored 5 goals. The team took second place in the Western Conference, but in the playoffs unexpectedly lost in the 1/8 finals to the Riga "Dynamo" with a score of 2: 4.

But twice the club won in the Gagarin Cup. In 2012, together with the capital's "Dynamo" Konstantin took second place in the Western Conference, losing to St. Petersburg SKA. But the playoffs started with confident victories over Minsk "Dynamo" (4: 0) and Nizhny Novgorod "Torpedo" (4: 2). In the semi-final 4 wins "blue and white" wins over SKA.

The finale with Omsk "Vanguard" stood out persistently. It came to the decisive, seventh match. In Omsk, "Dynamo" won 1: 0, having thrown a single washer in the third period. In 2013 the Muscovites again became the second in the Western Conference, but reached the final series. In the opponents this time was Chelyabinsk "Tractor". Gagarin Cup managed to win in 6 games.

The Ural voyage

Currently, Volkov stands for Yekaterinburg Motorist. He moved to this club in 2016. In the Eastern Conference the team took 11th place and could not get a ticket to the playoffs. "Motorist" won only 25 games out of 60. To the coveted 8th place, which was occupied by the Chinese team "Kunlun", did not have 4 points. Volkov spent 28 matches during the season, but he did not miss any goals scored. He managed to give only 4 assists.

In total in the KHL at the moment 32-year-old hockey striker had 305 matches, scored 47 goals, gave 61 assists. Konstantin Volkov all his time gives hockey. Nothing is known about the athlete's personal life.