Answer the following question: Facts: - weight lb: 181 - position: forward - height in: 8 - league: khl - shoots: left - team: free agent - height ft: 5 - birth date: 30 march 1988 - career start: 2004 - image size: 225px - former teams: metallurg novokuznetsk - birth place: barnaul , rus - draft: undrafted Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of denis kurepanov .
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denis kurepanov -lrb- born march 30 , 1988 -rrb- is a russian professional ice hockey forward currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played with metallurg novokuznetsk of the kontinental hockey league -lrb- khl -rrb- .kurepanov made his kontinental hockey league debut playing with metallurg novokuznetsk during the 2011 -- 12 khl season .kurepanov played over four seasons with novokuznetsk before he was released from his contract on june 23 , 2015 .