Serhiy Klymentiev
Serhiy Wolodymyrowytsch Klymentjew (Ukrainian Сергій Володимирович Климентьєв, Russian Сергей Владимирович Климентьев / Sergei Vladimirovich Klymentjew; born April 5, 1975 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian ice hockey player who is under contract with HK Sokol Kiev in the Belarusian Extraliga since 2009.
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Career
In his youth, the Ukrainians played in his hometown for the HK Sokol Kiev. In the summer of 1993 Klymentjew moved to the Medicine Hat Tigers in the Western Hockey League, where he played for two years. NHL Entry Draft 1994, he was selected in the fifth round at a total of 121 position of the Buffalo Sabres, for whom he never played. Instead, he ran for three years for their farm team, the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League. With the Americans, he won the 1996 Calder Cup.
After his contract was not renewed in Buffalo, a contract signed the defender in front of the 1998/99 season with the Philadelphia Flyers, where he was, however, not taken into account for the NHL team, but for the Philadelphia Phantoms in the AHL on the ice stood. The Flyers still transferred him in January in the same season for the Nashville Predators, in turn, once again, sent him to a farm team, the Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League.
1999 returned Serhiy Klymentjew back to Russia, where he Ak Bars Kazan joined and the Russian vice-championship won. After only one year, he left the team again in the direction of North America and completed seven games for the Houston Aeros in the IHL before he returned to Russia and a contract with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk signed.
After four seasons in Magnitogorsk, which were marked by winning the Russian championship in 2004, he returned to Kazan for two years. There, he won another league title in 2006. From 2006 to 2009 followed by engagements with the Russian team HK MVD Tver, HK Avangard Omsk and Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and Salavat Yulaev Ufa, before he left the Continental Hockey League before the season 2009/10, moved to Belarus. There he joined the HK Sokol Kiev, with whom he was in 2009 and 2010 Ukrainian Champion. In June 2010 he joined the first in the newly founded KHL participants HK Budiwelnik Kiev. After he was unable to take up the game operating in the KHL Due to delays in the stadium renovation, the Ukrainians remained at Sokol Kiev in the Belarusian Extraliga.
Internationally
Klymentjew represented his native country Ukraine for the first time at the Junior C World Cup internationally in 1993. After successful qualification for selbige the team rose to the B group at the end of the tournament. The defender was voted the best of the entire tournament. It was the only international appearance for the following years, since he moved to the United States.
In the senior Klymentjew played for the first time at the World Championship in 1999 Since then, he belonged until 2010 -. Except for the World Cup 2004 - always to the Ukrainian squad. He also played at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City as well as in the second qualifying round for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
Awards and achievements
- 2004 Russian runners-up with the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2004 Best defender of the Super League
- 2006 Russian champion Ak Bars Kazan with
- 2009 Ukrainian Champion with the HK Sokol Kiev
- 2010 Ukrainian Champion with the HK Sokol Kiev
Internationally
KHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)