Mikhail Tatarinov
Mikhail Vladimirovich Tatarinow (Russian: Михаил Владимирович Татаринов; * July 16, 1966 in Angarsk, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player in his playing days from 1983 to 1994 among others for the Washington Capitals, Nordiques de Québec and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League has played.
- 2.1 International
Career
Mikhail Tatarinow began his career as a hockey player with the HK Sokol Kiev, for the first team, he was active from 1983 to 1986 in the highest Soviet league. Then the defender moved to HK Dynamo Moscow, for which he was on the ice in the next four seasons and with whom he was in season 1989/90 for the first and only time in his career Soviet masters. In the same season he was voted into the All-Star team of the Soviet Hockey League. Already in NHL Entry Draft 1984, he was selected in the eleventh round when a total of 225 players from the Washington Capitals, for which he did until the 1990/91 season was used, after this started yet at Dynamo Moscow.
In his rookie year in the NHL Tatarinow scored in 65 games eight goals and gave 15 assists. On 22 June 1991 he was given in exchange for a second-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 1991 to the Nordiques de Québec. When the Canadians he could instantly gain a foothold and increase its yield in the 1991/92 season on 38 points in 66 games. Then the Russians but was always plagued by numerous injuries. Although he received on 30 July 1993 a contract as a free agent with the Boston Bruins, but could only be used sparingly and ended following the 1993/94 season, in which he, only a total of five times for Boston and its farm team the Providence Bruins, had been from the American Hockey League on the ice prematurely at the age of 28 years of his career.
Internationally
For the Soviet Union took Tatarinow at junior level at the European Junior Championships in 1984 and the Junior World Championships in 1984, 1985 and 1986 in part. In the senior level, he stood in the squad of his country at the Rendez -vous '87, and at the World Championships in 1990 and 1991 at the Canada Cup.