Alexander Pavlovich Mereskin

Alexander Mereskin
Date of birth	3rd December 1987
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
size	190 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	center
number	# 25
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2006	HK Spartak Moscow
2006-2007	Molot-Prikamje Perm Neftjanik Leninogorsk Sokol Novocheboksarsk
2007-2008	Neftyanik Leninogorsk
2008	HK Lada Tolyatti
2008-2010	Yuzhny Ural Orsk
2010-2011	Krylya Sovetov Moscow Toros Neftekamsk
2011-2013	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2013-2015	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2015-2016	HK Spartak Moscow
2016-2017	HK Sochi
2017-2018	Severstal Cherepovets
2018-2020	Admiral Vladivostok
since 2020	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk

Alexander Pavlovich Mereskin ( Russian Александр Павлович Мерескин ; born December 3, 1987 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Admiral Vladivostok in the Continental Hockey League since July 2018 .

Career

Alexander Mereskin began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of the HK Spartak Moscow , for whose second team he was active in the third-rate Pervaya League in the 2005/06 season . In the 2006/07 season he played in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, for Molot-Prikamje Perm , Neftjanik Leninogorsk and Sokol Novotscheboksarsk . He also spent the entire 2007/08 season at Neftjanik Leninogorsk . The 2008/09 season began the center at HK Lada Tolyatti from the newly established Continental Hockey League . For the team, however, he completed only three games in the KHL before he spent the following year and a half at the second division club Juschny Ural Orsk . In the 2010/11 season he stood for the PHK Krylja Sowetow Moscow and Toros Neftekamsk in the new second Russian division, the Wysschaja Hockey League , on the ice.

For the 2011/12 season Mereskin was committed by the KHL participant Metallurg Novokuznetsk . In May 2013 he left the club when he was exchanged for Artyom Gareev and Sergei Jemelin from Salawat Julajew Ufa . For Ufa, he completed almost 100 KHL games in the following two years before returning to his home club Spartak in July 2015.

He spent the 2016/17 season at HK Sochi , but was released from his current contract in May 2017. He was then without a club, before he was committed by Severstal Tscherepowez in November of the same year . He played 23 KHL games for Severstal and was then signed by Admiral Vladivostok in July 2018 .

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes	Plus minus
Main round	9	295	45	42	87	128	+1
Playoffs	3	23	0	3	3	14th	−1

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

• Alexander Mereskin at eliteprospects.com (English)