Andrei Bashkirov
Andrei Valeryevich Bashkirov (Russian Андрей Валерьевич Башкиров; born June 22, 1970 in Shelekhov, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player who has played in its active period from 1991 to 2010 was for the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League.
Career
Andrei Bashkirov began his career as a hockey player with Chimik Woskressensk, for which he made his debut in the Super League in the 1991/92 season. After a year break from hockey, he went to North America, where he first two years in the ECHL for the Charlotte Checkers - where he backlash-free period in 1994 and 1995 in the professional inline hockey league Roller Hockey International at the Portland Rage and Sacramento River Rats bridged - and Huntington Blizzard was active before he played towards the end of the 1996/97 season for the Detroit Vipers and Las Vegas Wranglers in the International Hockey League. The following season began the winger again in Las Vegas, as well as the Port Huron Border Cats of the United Hockey League, but moved shortly after start of the season in the IHL with the Fort Wayne Komets. In the NHL Entry Draft in 1998, he was finally selected in the fifth round as the 132nd overall player of the Canadiens de Montréal.
For the Canadiens de Montréal Bashkirov in 30 games was between 1998 and 2001 three assists in the National Hockey League. However, in his rookie year, the 1998/99 season, he continued to play mainly for the Fort Wayne Komets in the IHL, and the Fredericton Canadiens, the farm team of Montreal, in the American Hockey League, in the other two seasons almost exclusively for the new AHL the Canadiens farm team, the citadels of Quebec. From 2001 to 2005 the Russians for the Lausanne Hockey Club stood in the Swiss National League A under contract before he finished the 2004/05 season in his native Russia at the Super League Severstal Cherepovets participants. However, already after the season the national team returned back to Switzerland and stood there in the season 2005/ 06 the NLA Club Fribourg- Gottéron, and his now former club relegated from Lausanne in the National League B on the ice.
After Bashkirov began the 2006/07 season again in Lausanne, he moved to just four inserts for Avangard Omsk in the HK Super League. In the following two seasons he remained in Russia and rushed for the HK MVD Balaschicha in the Super League, as well as in the season 2008 /09 for the HK Sibir Novosibirsk in the Kontinental Hockey League newly established. Most recently, the former NHL pro ran in the 2009/10 season once again in Switzerland for EV train in the NLA and the SC Langenthal in the NLB on.
Internationally
For Russia Bashkirov participated in the 2004 World Series, and in the same year at the Euro Hockey Tour in part. In eleven countries, he scored two goals and was awarded two penalty minutes.