Andrei Viktorovich Plekhanov

Andrei Plekhanov
Date of birth	July 12, 1986
place of birth	Nizhnekamsk , Russian SFSR
size	188 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 3rd round, 96th position Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
2002-2007	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2004	Sarnia Sting
2007-2009	Syracuse crunch
2009-2010	HK Dynamo Moscow
2010-2011	Amur Khabarovsk
2011	Atlant Mytishchi
2011–2012	Idaho steelheads
2012-2013	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2013-2014	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2014	HK Sochi
2014-2015	HK Saryarka Karaganda
2015	Admiral Vladivostok

Andrei Viktorovich Plekhanov ( Russian Андрей Викторович Плеханов ; born July 12, 1986 in Nizhnekamsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who was last under contract with Admiral Vladivostok from the Continental Hockey League until October 2015 .

Career

Andrei Plekhanov began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , for whose second team he was active in the third-rate Pervaya League from 2002 to 2004 . In the NHL Entry Draft 2004 he was selected in the third round as the 96th player of the Columbus Blue Jackets , for which he never played. Instead, the defender then moved to Sarnia Sting in the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League , in which he only played two games before returning to Nizhnekamsk, for which he played in the Russian Super League until 2007 . At the same time he was in the 2004/05 season for Neftjanik Leninogorsk in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, and for the second team of Molot-Prikamje Perm in the Pervaya League on the ice.

From 2007 to 2009 Plechanow played for Columbus' farm teams , the Syracuse Crunch from the American Hockey League and the Elmira Jackals from the ECHL . He then returned to Russia, where he scored two goals and an assist for HK Dynamo Moscow in the Continental Hockey League in a total of 27 games during the 2009/10 season .

For the following season Plekhanov was committed by Dynamo's league rival Amur Khabarovsk , for whom he completed 30 KHL games. In June 2011, Plekhanov was signed by Atlant Mytishchi . There he remained without a job, after which he joined the Idaho Steelheads from the ECHL in December 2011 . In the 2012/13 season he played again for Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk before moving to HK Sibir Novosibirsk in September 2013. At Sibir, however, he was only used irregularly in the 2013/14 season, so that he subsequently did not receive a new contract and moved to the newly founded HK Sotschi .

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	2	54	4th	4th	8th	34
KHL playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	0
Super League main round	3	63	2	3	5	52
Super League Playoffs	1	5	0	0	0	0
AHL regular season	2	94	11	32	43	60
AHL playoffs	1	8th	1	2	3	2

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Andrei Plechanow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Andrei Plechanow at eliteprospects.com (English)