Alexei Sergejewitsch Wassiljew

Alexei Wassiljew
Date of birth	September 1, 1977
place of birth	Yaroslavl , Russian SFSR
size	183 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1995 , 5th lap, 110th position New York Rangers
Career stations
1993-1997	Yaroslavl torpedo
1998-2000	Hartford Wolf Pack
2000-2001	Milwaukee Admirals
2001-2011	Yaroslavl locomotive
2011-2013	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2013-2015	Yaroslavl locomotive

Alexei Sergejewitsch Wassiljew ( Russian Алексей Сергеевич Васильев ; born September 1, 1977 in Yaroslavl , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with Lokomotive Yaroslavl from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Alexei Vasiliev began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Torpedo Yaroslavl . For the professional team of the club he first played between 1993 and 1996 in the international hockey league . After this was replaced by the Super League , the defender with Torpedo won the Russian championship title in the 1996/97 season . He then received a contract with the New York Rangers , who had selected him in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in the fifth round as a total of 110 players. The entire season 1997/98 he had to suspend due to a knee injury he suffered in the Rangers training camp. From 1998 to 2000 he finally played for the Rangers' farm team , the Hartford Wolf Pack , in the American Hockey League . He scored 21 goals and prepared 49 goals in a total of 171 games. He also came in the 1999/2000 season for his only use for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League .

On September 25, 2000, Vasilyev was given to the Nashville Predators . In these he was also only in the farm team for use and played in the 2000/01 season 73 games for the Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League , in which he scored six goals and gave twelve templates. In the summer of 2001, the left shooter returned to his hometown club from Yaroslavl, which had since changed its name to Locomotive. With Lokomotiv Yaroslavl he immediately became a master in 2002 and 2003 . In the following years, the former junior international became a leading player in his team, with which he became Russian runner-up in 2008. Since the 2008/09 season he has been on the ice for Lokomotiv in the newly founded Continental Hockey League , in whose premiere season he and his team Ak Bars Kazan lost 3: 4 wins in the playoff final for the Gagarin Cup . In the following season Vasilyev was also assistant captain at Lokomotive. Following the 2010/11 season , he left Lokomotive Yaroslavl and was without a club until November 2011, before the Russian was committed by Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod .

In September 2013 he returned to Lokomotive and played there until the end of the 2014/15 season.

International

For Russia , Vasilyev took part in the junior division in the U18 European Junior Championship in 1995 , the Junior World Championship in 1996 and 1997 .

Achievements and Awards

1997 Russian champion with torpedo Yaroslavl 2002 Russian champion with Yaroslavl locomotive 2002 Best plus / minus balance of the super league main round

2003 Russian champion with Yaroslavl locomotive 2008 Russian runner-up with Yaroslavl locomotive 2009 Russian runner-up with Yaroslavl locomotive

International

• 1996 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1997 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	164	11	35	46	52
KHL playoffs	3	51	2	10	12	24
Super League main round	8th	428	33	76	109	184
Super League Playoffs	8th	74	7th	7th	14th	30th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Alexei Wassiljew at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Alexei Wassiljew at legendsofhockey.net (English)