Evgeny Muratov

Yevgeny Muratov Minerafissowitsch (Russian: Евгений Минерафисович Муратов; born January 28, 1981 in Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player, who was last at HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.

Career

Yevgeny Muratov began his career as a hockey player with Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, for the first team to 2004 he was active from 1998 in the Super League. Only the 1999/2000 season, he finished with the league rival Ak Bars Kazan. Following this, he was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the ninth round in 2000 when a total of 274 players from the Edmonton Oilers, for whom he never played, however. Instead, the winger remained in his native Russia and changed for the 2004/05 season to Metallurg Novokuznetsk. He then spent two years with SKA St. Petersburg before he signed in the summer of 2007 at his former club Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. After only 22 games, the former youth international left this again already and joined the HK Sibir Novosibirsk at, for which he in the following two and a half years, first in the Super League, as well as from the 2008/09 season in the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League stood on the ice.

For the season 2010/11 Muratov was obliged by KHL - Up HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk.

Internationally

For Russia Muratov took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001. In 14 junior internationals, scoring eight goals and he gave five assists. At the 2000 U20 World Cup, he became Vice World Champion with his team. He was the top scorer with six goals of the tournament and was voted into the All-Star team for the U20 World Cup.

Awards and achievements

• 2000 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
• 2000 top scorer at the U20 World Youth Championship
• 2000 All-Star team at the U20 World Youth Championship

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)