Ruslan Nurtdinov

Ruslan Nailjewitsch Nurtdinow (Russian Руслан Наильевич Нуртдинов; born March 30, 1980 in Ufa, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who is under contract with HK Kuban Krasnodar in the Wysschaja Hockey League since November 2013.

Career

Nurtdinow began his career with Salavat Yulaev Ufa, for whom he played until 2001 in the Russian Super League. Subsequently, the striker went for a year to the SKA Saint Petersburg and Severstal Cherepovets 2002, with whom he was Russian runners-up. Here, he was also the second best scorer of his team. After this success, signed him the League rival Ak Bars Kazan, which he left a year later to hire again at his hometown club from Ufa. With his move to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk for the season 2005/ 06 he first won the Spengler Cup in 2007 and his first Russian Championship.

A year later, he again went to Ufa, where he played until the end of season 2009/10 and 2008 won the second title in his career. The 2010/11 season spent the right shooter at Amur Khabarovsk before Nurtdinow received a contract for the season 2011/12 at Severstal Cherepovets in June 2011. For Severstal he graduated in the sequence 69 KHL games in which he scored 26 points scorer before he moved in January 2013 as part of the KHL to Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk.

Awards and achievements

• 2003 Russian Severstal Cherepovets runner-up with
• 2005 Spengler Cup win with the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2007 Champion of Russia with the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2008 Champion of Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa with

KHL stats

(End of season 2010/11)