Andrei Eduardowitsch Kusmin

Andrei Kuzmin
Date of birth	April 15, 1981
place of birth	Penza , Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 58
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1999	Disel Pensa
1999-2000	THK Tver
2000-2001	HK Dynamo Moscow
2001-2002	ZSK WWS Samara
2002	Molot-Prikamje Perm
2002-2004	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2004-2006	Disel Pensa
2006-2008	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2008-2009	Ak Bars Kazan
2009-2010	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2010-2011	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Disel Penza
2011–2012	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2012-2013	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
since 2013	Disel Pensa

Andrei Eduardowitsch Kusmin ( Russian Андрей Эдуардович Кузьмин ; born April 15, 1981 in Penza , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Disel Pensa in the Vysschaja Hockey League since 2013 .

Career

Andrei Kusmin began his career as a hockey player in his hometown with Disel Penza , for whose professional team he was active in the second-rate Wysschaja Liga from 1997 to 1999 . After a year with his league rivals THK Tver , he moved to the reigning Russian champions HK Dynamo Moscow in summer 2008 , for whom he scored a goal in 18 games in the Superliga . Following the season, the attacker received a contract with the second division club ZSK WWS Samara . The 2002/03 season he began at Molot-Prikamje Perm from the Super League, before he rose to the Super League with the second division Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod at the end of the season.

From 2004 to 2006, Kuzmin played for his ex-club Disel Pensa in the Vysschaya League before he was on the ice for two seasons for Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk in the Super League. In the summer of 2008, the Russian was signed by Ak Bars Kazan from the newly founded Continental Hockey League , with which he became Russian champion for the first time in his career at the end of the season . In 2009 he returned to Nizhnekamsk.

In 2010 he moved back to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod , in January 2011 this dissolved his contract prematurely and Kuzmin spent the rest of the season at Disel Penza in the Vysschaya Hockey League . In September 2011 he was signed by Metallurg Novokuznetsk from the Continental Hockey League . He then played 52 KHL games for Metallurg before moving to HK Spartak Moscow in May 2012 within the KHL . For Spartak he completed 17 KHL games before he was released from his contract in November 2012 and was then obliged by HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk .

In 2013 he returned to his hometown club in Penza.

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 Promotion to the Super League with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
• 2009 Gagarin Cup win with Ak Bars Kazan

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	5	195	23	21st	44	153
Playoffs	2	11	1	4th	5	6th

(Status: end of the 2013/14 season)

Web links

• Andrei Kusmin at eliteprospects.com (English)