Vitali Yeremeyev
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Vitaly Mikhailovich Jeremejew (Russian Виталий Михайлович Еремеев; born September 23, 1975 in Ust- Kamenogorsk, Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh professional ice hockey goaltender for the Barys Astana plays in the Kontinental Hockey League since 2010.
- 2.1 International
Career
Vitaly Jeremejew began his career in his native Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk, before he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 by the New York Rangers in the ninth round at 209th place. But he is not moved to North America, but continued his career in the Russian league at HK CSKA Moscow continues. Other stations in Russia were Torpedo Yaroslavl and HK Dynamo Moscow, with which he could achieve in the 1999/2000 season the championship in the Russian Super League. After this success, he moved to North America for the Rangers farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL. On December 27, 2000, he made his NHL debut for the New York Rangers, but could not win both this game and its three other NHL bets. Therefore, he was first sent to Hartford and later even in the East Coast Hockey League to the Charlotte Checkers. After three matches in the 2001/02 season for Charlotte He returned to Russia Dynamo Moscow, where he plays since then. In the season 2004/ 05 Dynamo again won the Russian Championship and Jeremejew had a playoff Gegentorschnitt 0.9 very large part of this success. In 2010 he moved to league rivals Barys Astana.
After the Russian Hockey Federation had decided before the season 2006/ 07, to punish the obligation foreign goalkeeper with a fine of 150,000 €, Jeremejew announced his retirement from the Kazakh national known to no longer be regarded as a foreigner .. However, had the resignation and the subsequent arbitration decision is not successful, so that Dynamo Moscow had to pay the fine.
Internationally
Jeremejew was appointed early in his career in the Kazakh national team. In 1994, he participated in his first World Ice Hockey Championships and reached in six games a catch quota of 93.1 % and a Gegentorschnitt of 1.80. In the following years he played with five other world championships and two Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 and 2006 in Turin. In 2006 he announced his retirement from international football.
Awards and achievements
- 2005 All- Star team of the Russian Super League
- 2006 IIHF European Champions Cup win with the HK Dynamo Moscow
- 2008 Spengler Cup win with the HK Dynamo Moscow
- 2009 KHL goalie of January
- 2009 KHL goalie of the month December