Vadim Gennadyevich Tarasov is a well-known Kazakhstan and Russian hockey player. Played as a goalkeeper. From 2013 to the present day he has been a goalkeeper coach at HC Salavat Yulaev.
Biography
The future athlete was born on the last day of December 1976 in the Kazakh city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. Vadim from early childhood loved active games and sports in general. He loved to run and play football, but there was no good football academy in Tarasov’s hometown. Parents understood that the child’s active desire for sports should not be ignored, and decided to try to enroll Vadim in a local hockey school.
In Ust-Kamenogorsk, one of the best hockey academies in Kazakhstan and the chances of taking the boy right away were slim. Nevertheless, he was accepted on the first try, the commission discerned the potential of the future hockey player, and he was enrolled in the academy.
Career
At the age of seventeen, Tarasov signed his first professional contract with the club, where he grew up as a hockey player, with Ust-Kamenogorsk Torpedo. But for a long time he did not stay in the club, an extremely rare hit in the squad eventually led to a transfer to another club in just a year. In 1995, the athlete received an offer from the Russian club Metallurg Novokuznetsk and without hesitation accepted it. The club from Kuzbass acquired the new goalkeeper almost as a replacement for the old one, and after a couple of years Vadim began to take a place in the starting lineup regularly. In total, “Metallurg” Tarasov spent six fruitful seasons.
In 1999, another draft was held in the national hockey league, where Tarasova was chosen by the coaches of the Montreal Canadiens. In 2001, after the contract with the Kuzbass club ended, Tarasov went to conquer North American hockey. Vadim played in the Quebec Citadels Farm Club, which played in the American Hockey League. After spending only one season there and playing fourteen matches, Vadim Tarasov returned to Novokuznetsk “Metallurg”.
In 2006, he reached an agreement with the hockey club Salavat Yulaev and moved from Novokuznetsk to Ufa. In the new club, he regularly appeared on the ice, and two years later he won the first serious trophy in his career. Tarasov as part of “Salavat” won the championship of Russia. After several transitions to other clubs, in 2012 he again ended up as part of Salavat, where he finished his work on ice.
Since the new season, he became the coach of goalkeepers “Salavat”, today he continues to work in the Ufa club.
