Evgeni Blokhin
Yevgeny Blokhin Anatoljevich (in Russian Евгений Анатольевич Блохин; * May 29, 1979 in the Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh professional ice hockey player who stands since 2013 in Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey League contract.
Career
Yevgeny Blokhin began his career as a hockey player with the HK Lada Togliatti, for the first team, he made his debut in the Russian Super League in the 1996/97 season. He then played one season long for the league rivals Disel Penza, before the defender, was three years in Izhevsk Ischstal and motor Barnaul in the Wysschaja League, the second Russian league contract. For the season 2004 /05 he returned to his home in Kazakhstan, where it ran aground in parallel in the Wysschaja League, as well as the Kazakh Cup for Kasachmys Karaganda.
From 2005 to 2008 Blokhin played for HK MVD Tver, HK Dynamo Moscow, Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Sibir Novosibirsk to HK in the Super League. For the 2008/09 season the links Sagittarius joined Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the Kontinental Hockey League newly established. In this he scored in 35 games two goals and three assists. He was then obliged by HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk, with whom he immediately became second division champions in the 2009/10 season and rose to the KHL.
After two more years in the KHL for Yugra Blokhin left the club in May 2012 and joined together with Pavel Vorobyov to Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. There, however, it took him only one season: in the summer of 2013, he moved within the KHL Barys Astana to Kazakhstan's top club.
Internationally
For Kazakhstan Blokhin took part in the U20 World Youth Championship in 1999. In addition, he was in his country's squad at the A World Championships in 2005 and 2006, and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. After five years of international break Blokhin joined the Asian Winter Games 2011 were held in the home country for the first time for the Kazakh team and won with it by a 4-1 win in the deciding game against Japan the title. In 2013 he was both for the Olympic qualification, in which the Kazakhs failed by a narrow 2:3 defeat to the hosts in the tournament in Riga, as well as for the Division I World Championship in 2013, in which the return to the top division succeeded nominated.
Awards and achievements
- 2010 rise in the Continental Hockey League with the HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
- 2011 Gold medal at the Asian Winter Games
- 2013 promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A
Statistics
(End of season 2012/ 13)