Anton Khudobin: sport achievements and biography

Anton Khudobin is one of the strongest hockey goalkeepers in Russia. He spent most of his career in the United States of America. He is the owner of numerous awards of different levels, who played in the Russian team.

early years

The future goalkeeper was born in the spring of 1986 in the Kazakh SSR. He started to study in Ust-Kamenogorsk, but then moved to Magnitogorsk. As a child, he knew that he would tie his life with sports. Parents always and in all supported the guy, and this greatly helped him in the future. He did not look like the other boys, because he did not like to move much. Coaches in the section noticed this, but did not throw it out, because Anton had some makings of a great master. He was put in the frame of the gate, where he found himself.

Already at an early age the boy could beat off the strongest throws. It should be noted that peers could not break it at all, and the elders managed to do it with great difficulty. Anton Khudobin with every day played more confidently, and the coaches of the first team could not overlook it. In 2004, the athlete for the first time in the main part of Magnitogorsk Metallurg, and then begins a professional career goalkeeper.

Performances at the adult level

For a long time Khudobin will not stay in the camp of "metallurgists", and already in 2005 he moved to Canada. There he will defend the colors of "Saskatoon Blades" from the junior league. The Russian will go on the ice in forty-four matches, but will miss one hundred and fourteen goals.

In 2006, Anton returns to his native team, but spends the whole season in it, after which he leaves for America for many years. For the teams of Texas Wildcatters and "Houston Eros" in the season 2007-2008. Anton Khudobin will perform. Goalkeeper In total will play in thirty nine duels and will miss seventy seven goals. The next championship starts in Florida Everblades, but after thirty-three matches, he returns to Houston Eros, where he will play one and a half seasons.

In 2009, the goalkeeper moves to the National Hockey League in the Minnesota Wild. He will leave in the start only two times and again will return to the second league. Season 2010-2011. Begins in Houston, but then again moves to Minnesota. Despite the fact that the athlete was already twenty-four years old, he still did not gain a foothold in any of the teams. The next attempt to perform in the top league will be made in the 2011-2012 season, but again nothing happened.

In 2012 Anton Khudobin returns to Russia. The hockey player will play in Atlanta for a year, where he will demonstrate a decent level. In America, they will see that the young man performs quite reliably, and he will be returned to the ranks of the "Boston Bruins", where he recently performed.

In 2013, Khudobin on a regular basis goes to the team "Carolina Hurricanes", where for three years is the main goalkeeper. Despite the fact that he misses quite a lot of goals, the coaching staff is completely satisfied with the game, which shows the Russian.

Career in the national team

Anton debuted in the game for the youth team at the World Championship. It is worth noting that then he brought home a gold medal. In 2005 and 2006, as part of the youth team, Anton was the main goalkeeper at the world championships. Two years in a row the team became the second.

Anton Khudobin was waiting for the first national team for eight years. In 2014, he was listed in the application for international competitions, but he did not take part in any game. And the following year he went on the ice as part of the main Russian team only once.

Some interesting facts

Indeed, a very interesting biography of this athlete. Anton Khudobin, although he did not play too much, nevertheless he managed to be remembered by American fans.

Speaking in the States, he became the best goalkeeper in history for the coefficient of repulsed strikes among those goalkeepers who spent more than three thousand minutes in the frame of the gate.

From 2009 to 2012, Khudobin took part in only five full fights. It is noteworthy that in four cases he became the best player of the match. The Russian also owns a record in the number of victories at the start of the regular season. This peak he obeyed in the composition of "Carolina".

Despite the fact that Anton Khudubin Not too often played for the national team, the Russian fans still love him. Perhaps, at the moment his career was not very successful, but he is still young and will be able to show everything he is capable of. Anton is also an idol for many young athletes.