Anatoly Emelin
Anatoli Anatoljevich Jemelin (Russian Анатолий Анатольевич Емелин; born October 3, 1964 in Ufa, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player, who works as a hockey coach since his career end of 1998. He played for many years for Salavat Yulaev Ufa and the HK Lada Togliatti in the highest ice hockey league of the Soviet Union, respectively, CIS, scoring 229 goals in 596 games. His son Constantine Jemelin is also a professional hockey player.
- 3.1 As a player 3.1.1 National Competitions
- 3.1.2 International Competitions
Career
As a player
Jemelin began his career in his hometown hockey club, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, for the first team he made his debut during the 1982/83 season in the league Wysschaja. At the end of the season he rose to Ufa from the second league, which Perwaja league. 1985 managed Salavat 's re-emergence from the second to the first division, with Jemelin scored 44 points scorer in 57 games this season.
In 1987 he moved to the SKA Sverdlovsk, for which he ran aground in the next one and a half seasons in the Perwaja League, before he returned to his hometown club. In 1990 he received from Gennadi Zygurow, the new head coach of Lada Togliatti, the offer to play for Lada. He accepted the offer and helped his new club on the way to the top of the Soviet- Russian ice hockey. During the 1992/93 season he played in the Swedish Division 1 for Avesta BK, but then returned to Lada.
In the following four years he was playing with the HK Lada two time CIS champion and runner. He also won the European Cup in 1996 and the silver medal at the IIHF Super Cup 1997.
Internationally
Anatoli Jemelin represented the USSR at the Universiade 1989 and 1991, where he won two gold medals. He also ran for the Sbornaja at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1994, where he scored two goals in six games and finished fifth with the team.
As a coach
After the 1997/98 season Jemelin ended his active career as a player and was manager of the farm teams of Lada Togliatti, Togliatti Lady. A year later, he was named assistant coach of the first team under head coach Pyotr Vorobyov.
In April 2006 Jemelin was introduced as the successor of Vorobyov and was at that time the youngest coach of Super League. In the first few games each against the previous head coach of Lada, Gennadi Zygurow and Pyotr Vorobyov, his team defeated the respective new teams of Zygurow and Vorobyov 3-1.
After the 2006/ 07 season Jemelin was dismissed from Lada Togliatti, as the team had only reached the eleventh place in the Super League. In November of the same year he became General Manager at Amur Khabarovsk. The end of December he took over the head coaching job at the same club and remained in that position until October 2009. Afterwards he resumed the office manager at Amur.
In November 2010, he became head coach at Metallurg Novokuznetsk and managed the club until the end of the 2012/13 season, with his team missed the playoffs each season. In March 2013 he was introduced as the new head coach at Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
As a player
National Competitions
International Competitions
Represented Russia at:
- World Cup 1994
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )
As a coach
(Legend to coach statistics: Sp or GC = Total Games; W or S = scored victories, L or N = scored Losses, T or U = scored draw; OTL or OTN = scored Losses after Overtime or Shootout; Pts or Pts = points scored, Win % = winning percentage, result = round reached in the play- offs )