Alexei Olegowitsch Simakow

Alexei Simakov
Date of birth	April 7, 1979
place of birth	Sverdlovsk , Russian SFSR
size	168 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2002	Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg
2002-2005	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2005	Ak Bars Kazan
2005-2006	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2006-2008	HK CSKA Moscow
2008	SKA Saint Petersburg
2008-2009	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2009	HK CSKA Moscow
2009-2010	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2010-2011	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2011–2012	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2012-2018	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2018-2019	CS Progym Gheorgheni

Alexei Olegowitsch Simakow ( Russian Алексей Олегович Симаков ; born April 7, 1979 in Sverdlovsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player .

Career

Alexei Simakov started his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of Junost Yekaterinburg. From there he moved to Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg , for whose professional team he was active between 1997 and 2002 in the Superliga and the second-rate Wysschaja Liga . Then the winger spent three years with Superliga participants Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , where he ended the 2004/05 season with league rivals Ak Bars Kazan . The following season he then spent again at Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk.

From 2006 to 2008 Simakow was under contract with HK CSKA Moscow in the super league. For the 2008/09 season he moved to SKA Saint Petersburg , for which he only played a single game in the newly founded Continental Hockey League before he was obliged by its league rivals HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk . With Metallurg he was able to convince especially at European level in the premiere season of the Champions Hockey League , in which he and his team were only defeated by the ZSC Lions from Switzerland in the final . However, he ended the season at his ex-club HK CSKA Moscow.

In the 2009/10 season Simakow joined the KHL newcomer Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg . From the 2010/11 season he was again on the ice for Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk. At the end of December 2011, he moved within the KHL to HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk .

Since July 2012 Simakow was under contract with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg and held the captaincy there in the 2012/13 season. From July 2018 to May 2019 he played for CS Progym Gheorgheni .

International

For Russia Simakov took part in the Euro Hockey Tour in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 respectively . He scored two goals in 31 international matches and gave eight assists.

Achievements and Awards

• 1999 promotion to the super league with Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg
• 2009 2nd place in the Champions Hockey League with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	131	14th	56	70	56
Playoffs	3	19th	2	5	7th	16

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Alexei Simakow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Alexei Simakow at eliteprospects.com (English)