Andrei Shefer

Andrei Viktorovich Schefer (Russian: Андрей Викторович Шефер; born July 26, 1981 in Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who is under contract with HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk in the Kontinental Hockey League since July 2013.

Career

Andrei Shefer began his career as a hockey player in the junior division of Severstal Cherepovets, for the first team, he made his debut in the Super League in the 1998/99 season. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 in the second round than a total of 43 players from the Los Angeles Kings and spent the 1999/2000 season with the Halifax Mooseheads in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL. Due to the language barrier and personal problems Schefer returned to the 2000/01 season to his former club Severstal Cherepovets back. After 20 games, he was lying on the SKA St. Petersburg due to lack of ice age where the trained as a striker Schefer was first used as a defender. Shortly before the playoffs, he was ordered back to Severstal, but received little further use opportunities and played in either the third or fourth row or back as a defender. In the following season he was loaned again to the SKA St. Petersburg, but returned to 28 games back to Cherepovets. In the following four and a half years he played for his local club in the Super League, but had to temporarily go into the second team on the ice or pursue as a supernumerary players the games from the stands.

From 2006 to 2008 Schefer was the capital club HK CSKA Moscow under contract, where he received significantly more ice age and his points yield significantly increased. Because of these benefits Schefer was again obliged Severstal Cherepovets of the 2008/09 season. For his club he was in the next four years playing in the Kontinental Hockey League newly founded on the ice. In May 2012, he returned to Moscow, when he was taken for two years from HK Spartak Moscow under contract.

Internationally

For Russia Schefer took part in the U18 World Youth Championship in 1999 and the U20 Junior World Championship 2001.

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)