Mikhail Chernov

Mikhail Chernov Jurjewitsch (Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Чернов; born November 11, 1978 in Prokopjewsk, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who is Metallurg Novokuznetsk Since 2013 in the Continental Hockey League contract.

Career

Mikhail Chernov began his career as a hockey player to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, for the first team, he was active in the Super League from 1996 to 1998. With his team he won the Russian championship in the 1996/97 season. He was then selected in the fourth round in the NHL Entry Draft in 1997 as a total 103 players from the Philadelphia Flyers, for whom he never played, however. Instead, he stood from 1998 to 2001 for their farm team, the Philadelphia Phantoms in the American Hockey League on the ice. At the beginning of the 2001/02 season the defender returned to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, but left the club after just two league inserts again and played in the next two years for the HK Spartak Moscow before he finished the 2002/03 season at Ak Bars Kazan.

From 2003 to 2007, Chernov played every two years for the Metallurg Novokuznetsk and SKA St. Petersburg in the Super League. For the season 2007/ 08 he moved to Salavat Yulaev Ufa, with whom he won the Russian championship title at first attempt. In the 2008 /09 season for the Russian Ufa took in the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League, as well as at European level in the Champions Hockey League. From the season 2009/10 the former Russian international was on the HK Sibir Novosibirsk in the KHL. In January 2011, he signed a contract until end of season at HK Spartak Moscow before he was hired in the summer of 2011 by Vityaz Chekhov.

Internationally

For Russia Chernov took part in 2006 at the Euro Hockey Tour. In three games, he remained no points and was awarded two penalty minutes.

Awards and achievements

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)