Alexei Anatolyevich Semyonov

Alexei Semenov
Date of birth	April 10, 1981
place of birth	Murmansk , Russian SFSR
size	198 cm
Weight	107 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1999 , 2nd lap, 36th position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1997-1998	Krylya Sovetov Moscow
1998	SKA Saint Petersburg
1998-2001	Sudbury Wolves
1999-2003	Hamilton Bulldogs
2002-2005	Edmonton Oilers
2004-2005	SKA Saint Petersburg
2005-2007	Florida panthers
2006	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2007-2009	San Jose Sharks
2009-2010	HK Dynamo Moscow
2010-2014	SKA Saint Petersburg
2014-2015	Vitjas Podolsk
2015-2016	HK Sochi
2016-2018	Vitjas Podolsk
since 2018	Salawat Yulayev Ufa

Alexei Anatoljewitsch Semjonow ( Russian Алексей Анатольевич Семёнов ; born April 10, 1981 in Murmansk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player . Since September 2018 he has been playing again for Salawat Yulayev Ufa in the Continental Hockey League on the position of defender .

Career

Semjonow first played in the junior teams of the clubs from the Russian Super League and dared in the 1998/99 season at the age of 17 to North America , where he was hired by the Sudbury Wolves in the Ontario Hockey League . In his first season he played 28 games and was finally selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1999 in the second round in 36th position by the Edmonton Oilers . Nevertheless, Semyonov stayed in Sudbury for two more years and improved significantly. After 63 points in 65 games in the 2000/01 season, the league awarded him the Max Kaminsky Trophy for the best defender in the league and appointed him to one of the three All-Star teams for the second time in a row after 2000.

After he had already gained experience in the playoffs of the 1999/00 season with the Hamilton Bulldogs , the Oilers' farm team , from the American Hockey League , they took him under contract for the 2001/02 season. With a consistently good first AHL season, he made it into the Oilers' NHL squad for the first time in the 2002/03 season and played a total of 46 games. He also played 37 times for the Bulldogs in the AHL before he could permanently establish himself in the Oilers squad in the 2003/04 season .

Semyonov in the jersey of the San Jose Sharks

Due to the lockout- related failure of the entire 2004/05 season , the Russian returned to his home country, where he played again for the SKA Saint Petersburg , for which he had already played in junior times. In contrast to many other NHL professionals, Semyonov stayed in Europe for the 2005/06 season and ran in two games for Lokomotive Yaroslavl . After he had agreed on a new contract with the Oilers, they transferred him to the Florida Panthers after a short time , where he spent the rest of the season, but was also briefly used on the Rochester Americans farm team . In the 2006/07 season Semyonov extended his contract with the Panthers by one year. Since he did not make the jump into the NHL squad for the time being and was sent back to Rochester, he moved back to the Russian Super League to Salawat Julajew Ufa before the Panthers piloted him back to North America in February 2007. In the summer of 2007, he then signed a one-year contract with the San Jose Sharks . However, as in Edmonton and Florida, Semjonow was unable to prevail in the heavily occupied squad and only made 22 appearances, which were often marked by mistakes. Nevertheless, shortly before the start of the 2008/09 season, the management provided him with a new one-year contract.

After its expiry, the defender did not find a new team, but was invited to the training camp by the New York Rangers in September 2009 . Although it was reported that Semyonov had signed a contract at the end of September 2009, the agreement was negated a little later. At the beginning of October 2009, HK Dynamo Moscow signed a contract from the Continental Hockey League . For the 2010/11 season he returned to SKA Saint Petersburg one more time.

Until November 2014 Semjonow played for the SKA and completed almost 200 KHL games before he was handed over to the HK Vitjas from Podolsk . For the HK Vitjas he acted as team captain in the following two game years. In September 2018 he returned to Salawat Julajew Ufa and received a one-year contract.

Achievements and Awards

2000 OHL Third All-Star Team 2001 Max Kaminsky Trophy 2001 OHL First All-Star Team 2001 CHL Third All-Star Team

2004 Participation in the NHL YoungStars Game 2010 Spengler Cup win with SKA Saint Petersburg 2015 KHL Defender of the Month for January

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1997/98	Krylya Sovetov Moscow II	Pervaya League		52	1	2	3	48
1998/99	SKA Saint Petersburg II	Pervaya League		19th	0	1	1	20th
1998/99	Sudbury Wolves	OHL		28	0	3	3	28		2	0	0	0	4th
1999/00	Sudbury Wolves	OHL		65	9	35	44	135		12	1	3	4th	23
1999/00	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		-	-	-	-	-		3	0	0	0	0
2000/01	Sudbury Wolves	OHL		65	21st	42	63	106		12	4th	13	17th	17th
2001/02	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		78	5	11	16	67		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		37	4th	3	7th	45		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		46	1	6th	7th	58		6th	0	0	0	0
2003/04	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		46	2	3	5	32		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	SKA Saint Petersburg	Super league		51	0	9	9	24		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Yaroslavl locomotive	Super league		2	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		11	1	1	2	17th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Florida panthers	NHL		16	1	1	2	21st		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Rochester Americans	AHL		3	0	0	0	7th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Rochester Americans	AHL		4th	0	0	0	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Florida panthers	NHL		23	0	5	5	28		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	Super league		20th	1	2	3	32		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	San Jose Sharks	NHL		22nd	1	3	4th	36		2	0	0	0	2
2008/09	San Jose Sharks	NHL		47	1	7th	8th	57		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	HK Dynamo Moscow	KHL		34	1	3	4th	30th		4th	0	1	1	4th
2010/11	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		18th	0	4th	4th	20th		6th	0	0	0	12
2011/12	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		40	0	3	3	55		12	0	2	2	45
2012/13	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		48	2	5	7th	44		15th	0	2	2	12
2013/14	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		43	2	7th	9	64		10	0	2	2	12
2014/15	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		7th	0	0	0	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	HK Vitjas	KHL		37	1	8th	9	54		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	HK Sochi	KHL		44	0	6th	6th	87		4th	0	0	0	31
2016/17	HK Vitjas	KHL		54	2	14th	16	102		4th	0	0	0	8th
2017/18	HK Vitjas	KHL		37	6th	6th	12	86		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		42	0	5	5	24		14th	1	0	1	41
Total Pervaya League				71	1	3	4th	68
Super league overall				73	1	12	13	58		-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				404	14th	61	75	574		69	1	7th	8th	165
OHL total				158	30th	80	110	269		26th	5	16	21st	44
AHL total				122	9	14th	23	125		3	0	0	0	0
NHL overall				211	7th	26th	33	249		8th	0	0	0	2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Alexei Semjonow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexei Semjonow at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Alexei Semjonow at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Alexei Semjonow at eurohockey.com