Ukraine men's national ice hockey team

Association	Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine
General Manager	Sergi Mazur
Head coach	Oleksandr Savytskyi
Assistants	Pavlo Mikhonik Dmytro Pidgursky
Captain	Olexander Pobiedonostsev
Most games	Vasily Bobrovnikov (182)
Most points	Vitaly Litvinenko (105)
Team colors
IIHF code	UKR
Ranking
Current IIHF	22
Highest IIHF	11 (first in 2003)
Lowest IIHF	22 (first in 2016)
First international
Kazakhstan 5–1 Ukraine  (Saint Petersburg, Russia; 14 April 1992)
Biggest win
Ukraine 37–2 Belgium  (Bled, Slovenia; 13 March 1993)
Biggest defeat
Finland 9–0 Ukraine  (Helsinki, Finland; 3 May 2003)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	18 (first in 1993)
Best result	9th (2002)
Olympics
Appearances	1 (first in 2002)
International record (W–L–T)
162–119–29

The Ukrainian national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Ukraine, and is controlled by the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. As of 2017 Ukraine is ranked 22nd in the IIHF World Rankings. The team's top finish was at the 2002 World Championships when they finished in 9th place. Ukraine has a total of 4,190 players (0.008% of its population).

Following the 2007 IIHF World Championship in Russia, Ukraine was relegated to Division 1.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

• 2002 – Finished in 10th place

World Championship

• 1954–1991 – Participated as part of the Soviet Union national ice hockey team
• 1993 – Finished in 18th place (2nd in Pool C)
• 1994 – Finished in 23rd place (3rd in Pool C)
• 1995 – Finished in 23rd place (3rd in Pool C)
• 1996 – Finished in 22nd place (2nd in Pool C)
• 1997 – Finished in 21st place (1st in Pool C)
• 1998 – Finished in 17th place (1st in Pool B)
• 1999 – Finished in 14th place
• 2000 – Finished in 14th place
• 2001 – Finished in 10th place
• 2002 – Finished in 9th place
• 2003 – Finished in 12th place
• 2004 – Finished in 14th place
• 2005 – Finished in 11th place
• 2006 – Finished in 12th place
• 2007 – Finished in 16th place
• 2008 – Finished in 19th place (2nd in Division I Group B)
• 2009 – Finished in 20th place (2nd in Division I Group B)
• 2010 – Finished in 19th place (2nd in Division I Group A)
• 2011 – Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I Group B)
• 2012 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in Division I Group A)
• 2013 – Finished in 23rd place (1st in Division I Group B)
• 2014 – Finished in 20th place (4th in Division I Group A)
• 2015 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in Division I Group A)
• 2016 – Finished in 23rd place (1st in Division I Group B)
• 2017 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in Division I Group A)

Roster

Roster for the 2016 IIHF World Championship.^[1]

Goaltenders
#	Player	Catches	Height	Weight	Date of birth	Club
29	Mykhalio Shevchuk	R	185 cm	90 kg	(1994-09-19) 19 September 1994	HK Kremenchuk
30	Eduard Zakharchenko	L	190 cm	80 kg	(1995-08-04) 4 August 1995	HK Generals Kiev
Defencemen
#	Player	Shoots	Height	Weight	Date of birth	Club
6	Volodymyr Aleksyuk	L	181 cm	83 kg	(1987-06-22) 22 June 1987	Donbass Donetsk
2	Vitali Andreikiv	L	180 cm	88 kg	(1996-01-03) 3 January 1996	HK Kremenchuk
21	Denys Isayenko	L	175 cm	90 kg	(1980-03-17) 17 March 1980	HK Kremenchuk
26	Denys Petrukhno	L	190 cm	93 kg	(1989-09-18) 18 September 1989	Donbass Donetsk
14	Olexander Pobyedonostsev	L	180 cm	82 kg	(1981-09-19) 19 September 1981	HK Generals Kiev
23	Volodymyr Romanenko	L	189 cm	95 kg	(1992-08-13) 13 August 1992	HK Kremenchuk
4	Vsevold Tolstushko	L	178 cm	80 kg	(1993-05-31) 31 May 1993	Donbass Donetsk
5	Kyrylo Zhovnir	L	193 cm	101 kg	(1995-03-07) 7 March 1995	HK Kremenchuk
Forwards
#	Player	Shoots	Height	Weight	Date of birth	Club
15	Sergi Babynets	L	184 cm	80 kg	(1987-09-05) 5 September 1987	Donbass Donetsk
24	Roman Blagy	R	190 cm	100 kg	(1987-10-25) 25 October 1987	Saryarka Karagandy
25	Artem Bondaryev	L	181 cm	92 kg	(1983-01-12) 12 January 1983	Steaua București
19	Dmytro Chernyshenko	R	179 cm	82 kg	(1994-05-10) 10 May 1994	HK Kremenchuk
11	Vladyslav Gavryk	R	193 cm	100 kg	(1991-05-21) 21 May 1991	Columbus Cottonmouths
22	Artem Gnidenko	R	177 cm	82 kg	(1980-02-03) 3 February 1980	HK Generals Kiev
9	Georgi Kicha	R	175 cm	78 kg	(1990-03-12) 12 March 1990	HK Generals Kiev
8	Andri Mikhnov	L	200 cm	98 kg	(1983-11-26) 26 November 1983	Yunost Minsk
20	Yuri Petrangovsky	L	187 cm	89 kg	(1994-12-09) 9 December 1994	HK Kremenchuk
7	Oleg Shafarenko	L	184 cm	80 kg	(1981-10-31) 31 October 1981	Yunost Minsk
3	Yevgen Tymchenko	L	185 cm	85 kg	(1996-05-25) 25 May 1996	HK Generals Kiev
10	Viktor Zakharov	L	195 cm	90 kg	(1994-01-08) 8 January 1994	Donbass Donetsk

Coaches

• Oleksandr Fadeiev (1993–1994)
• Anatoliy Bohdanov (1994–2003)
• Oleksandr Seukand (2004–2007)
• Volodymyr Golubovych (2007–2008)
• Oleksandr Seukand (2009)
• Mikhail Zakharov (2009–2010)
• Dave Lewis (2010–2011)
• Anatoliy Khomenko (2011–2012)
• Oleksandr Kulikov (2012–2013)
• Andrei Nazarov (2013–2014)
• Oleksandr Hodyniuk (2014–15)
• Oleksandr Savytskyi (2015–present)

Gallery

• 
  Kostiantyn Simchuk
• 
  Andriy Mikhnov
• 
  Mykola Ladygin
• 
  Oleksandr Pobyedonostsev
• 
  Dmytro Tsyrul
• 
  Dmytro Tolkunov
• 
  Vitaliy Lytvynenko
• 
  Andriy Mikhnov and Vadym Shakhraychuk

References

External links

• Official website
• IIHF profile