Maxim Bets
Maxim Nikolayevich Bez (Russian Максим Николаевич Бец; born January 31, 1974 in Chelyabinsk) is a former Russian ice hockey player who has played during his active career, among others, for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League.
Career
Maxim Bez began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at the HC Traktor Chelyabinsk, for whom he made his debut in the Russian Super League in the 1991/92 season. He then moved to the Spokane Chiefs, where he spent the next two years in the Canadian top junior Western Hockey League. During this period he was also in the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 in the second round than a total of 37 players from the St. Louis Blues, who submitted the attacker on 21 March 1994 at their league rivals Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, in three of the games he remained point and impunity. In the following two season of the links contactors for Anaheim's farm team, the Worcester IceCats and Baltimore Bandits stood from the American Hockey League, the San Diego Gulls of the International Hockey League and the Raleigh IceCaps of the East Coast Hockey League, on the ice.
In summer 1996, Bez returned to his native Russia, in which he in the next six years each for one season in the first division HK CSKA Moscow, HC Traktor Chelyabinsk, HK Mechel Chelyabinsk, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, again Mechel Chelyabinsk and finally Severstal Cherepovets in was the Superleague active, he with Metallurg Magnitogorsk won the European Hockey League in the 1999/2000 season, after he prevailed in the final with his team against HC Sparta Prague in the Czech Extraliga. In the season 2002/ 03 the Russians played for Molot - Prikamye Krylia Sovetov Moscow and Perm in the Super League. Subsequently, the former NHL player returned again to HK Mechel Chelyabinsk, who was descended in the meantime in the subprime Wysschaja league back. The 2005/06 season he finished, however, in their city rivals Traktor Chelyabinsk, which won him promotion to the Super League. The links Sagittarius moved in summer 2006 to Kazakh champion Kasachmys Satpajew, with which he participated in the 2006/07 season at the parallel operation of the game Wysschaja League, as well as the Kazakh and Kazakh Hockey Championship Cup winner was. The season 2007/ 08 spent at Mechel Chelyabinsk Bez again in the Wysschaja League before he was hired in the summer of 2008 by the League rival Gazprom -OGU Orenburg, completed for the two seasons and subsequently ended his career.
Awards and achievements
- 2000 European Hockey League win with the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2006 promotion to the Super League with HC Traktor Chelyabinsk
- 2007 Kazakh Cup winner with Kasachmys Satpajew