Alexander Semak
Alexander Vladimirovich Semak (Russian Александр Владимирович Семак; born February 11, 1966 in Ufa, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player, who in his active from 1982 to 2005 included for the New Jersey Devils, Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Islanders and Vancouver Canucks played in the National Hockey League.
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Career
Alexander Semak began his career as a hockey player in his hometown Salavat Yulaev Ufa at, for its first team, he was active in the highest or second highest Soviet league from 1982 to 1986. Subsequently, the Center moved to HK Dynamo Moscow, for which he also played for six years and with whom he each Soviet champions in 1990 and 1991. In the NHL Entry Draft 1988 he was also selected in the tenth round as a total 207 players from the New Jersey Devils. For this he gave in the 1991/92 season his debut in the National Hockey League, after he had started the season at HK Dynamo Moscow. In his rookie year in the NHL, he scored five goals in 26 games this and gave six assists. He also came in seven games for their farm team, the Utica Devils of the American Hockey League, are used.
During the lockout in the 1994/95 season Semak began in his native Russia with his former club Salavat Yulaev Ufa After resumption of gaming operations in the NHL, he returned to New Jersey, where he ran aground in 19 games, before the 14. March 1995 along with Ben Hankinson was issued in exchange for Shawn Chambers and Danton Cole on the Tampa Bay Lightning. In the summer of 1995, the two -time Junior World Champion left the franchise and the New York Islanders joined for one year on. During the season 1996/97 the Russians ran on both the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL, as well as the Las Vegas Thunder of the International Hockey League and the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. In the following two years he was in each one season with the Chicago Wolves in the IHL and the Albany River Rats in the AHL under contract.
For the 1999/2000 season Semak returned again to Europe and spent the season with the EHC Freiburg in the 2nd Hockey League. From 2000 to 2003, the former NHL player played for both his ex- club Salavat Yulaev Ufa and HK Dynamo Moscow in the Super League. He then spent one season each with their league rivals Severstal Cherepovets, as well as the HK MVD Tver, with which he, rise in the 2004/05 season as champions of Wysschaja League, the second division in the Russian Super League. Following this success, he ended his active career at the age of 39 years.
Internationally
For the Soviet Union Semak took at junior level at the Junior European Championships in 1983 and 1984 and the Junior World Championships in 1984, 1985 and 1986 in part. In the senior level, he played for his country at the 1987 and 1991 Canada Cup and the World Championships in 1987, 1990 and 1991. Too, he stood in the line-up of the Soviet Union at the Rendez -vous '87. For Russia it was in 1996 in the line-up of the World Cup of Hockey.