Damir Ryspayev | |||
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Born |
Oskemen, Kazakhstan | 25 April 1995||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||
Weight | 203 lb (92 kg; 14 st 7 lb) | ||
Position | Defence | ||
Shoots | Right | ||
VHL team Former teams |
Nomad Nur-Sultan Barys Astana | ||
Playing career | 2014–present |
Damir Muratuly Ryspayev ( Kazakh: Дамир Мұратұлы Ырыспаев, romanized: Damir Mūratūly Yryspaev; born 25 April 1995) is a Kazakh professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Nomad Nur-Sultan of the Supreme Hockey League (VHL). [1]
On 8 August 2016, during an exhibition game against Kunlun Red Star, Ryspayev started a brawl that caused the game to get cancelled after just three minutes. [2] The brawl began when Ryspayev punched Tomáš Marcinko as he was checking him, and escalated when Ryspayev decided to attack the other Red Star players, seemingly at random. [2] Eventually, after trying to attack players on the Red Star bench, Ryspayev was ejected from the game with the rest of the game getting cancelled. [2] He was suspended by the KHL for the remainder of the exhibition season and faced a hearing for further discipline. [2] On 18 August 2016 Ryspayev received a lifetime ban from the league, with a representative of the league's Council of Directors stating that the league could not allow its rules to be "systematically and grotesquely violated". [3]
On December 27, 2017, the lifetime ban on Ryspayev was lifted. [4]