Vitali Yachmenev
Vitaly Jatschmenjow (Russian Виталий Александрович Ячменёв; born January 8, 1975 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who is since October 2011 with Rubin Tyumen in the Wysschaja Hockey League contract.
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Career
Vitaly Jatschmenjow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth of HC Traktor Chelyabinsk, for which he was active until 1993. He then moved to the North Bay Centennials in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League, with whom he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup in the 1993/94 season. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 in the third round than a total of 59 players from the Los Angeles Kings, for the well in the National Hockey League he was on the ice from 1995 to 1998. He was also for their farm team, the Phoenix Roadrunners and Long Beach Ice Dogs of the International Hockey League active. On 7 July 1998 the Russian to the Nashville Predators was released, for which he spent five years in the NHL before he was taken in the summer of 2003 by Amur Khabarovsk of the Russian Super League under contract, for which he ran aground in the following season.
After Jatschmenjow stood for Ak Bars Kazan in the 2004/05 season on the ice, he moved to the league rivals HK Avangard Omsk, with the links Sagittarius in the season / 06 runners-up in 2005, where he and his team in the finals his former club Ak Bars Kazan defeated. In summer 2007, the winger was signed from HK Dynamo Moscow, for whom he played from the 2008/09 season in the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League in 2008 and won the Spengler Cup. The 2010/11 season he spent with his hometown club HC Traktor Chelyabinsk in the KHL, before he became the 2011/12 season of Rubin Tyumen from the new second Russian league, the Wysschaja Hockey League, committed.
Internationally
For Russia Jatschmenjow took part in the U18 European Junior Championships in 1993 and the Junior World Cup in 1995, where he took second place each with his team.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Statistics
(End of season 2010/11)