Denis Nikolayevich Schemelin

Denis Schemelin
Date of birth	July 24, 1978
place of birth	Kazakh SSR
size	191 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2004	Kasz.-Torp. Ust-Kamenogorsk
2004-2007	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2007	Kasz.-Torp. Ust-Kamenogorsk
2007-2008	Barys Astana
2008-2010	HK Lada Tolyatti
2010-2011	Amur Khabarovsk
since 2011	Molot-Prikamje Perm

Denis Nikolajewitsch Schemelin ( Russian Денис Николаевич Шемелин ; born July 24, 1978 in the Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who has been under contract with Molot-Prikamje Perm in the Vysschaya Hockey League since 2011 .

Career

Denis Schemelin began his career as a hockey player in the junior division of Kaszink-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Vysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, in the 1998/99 season . He scored four goals in a total of 42 games and provided six templates. With Torpedo, the defender became Kazakh champion in the 2003/04 season . After the success, however, he left the club and joined Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the Russian Super League .

After three years with the Russians, he started the 2007/08 season at his ex-club Torpedo in Kazakhstan, but left after only 14 games to defend for league rivals Barys Astana . After Astana was accepted into the newly founded Continental Hockey League for the 2008/09 season , the former national player played his first eleven games in the KHL. A year and a half followed with league rival HK Lada Tolyatti before the 2006 Olympian signed with Amur Khabarovsk during the 2009/10 season . For the 2011/12 season he moved to Molot-Prikamje Perm from the Wysschaja Hockey League .

International

For Kazakhstan , Schemelin took part in the Junior B World Championships in 1997 , and in the senior division in the B World Championships in 1999 , 2000 , 2001 and 2002 . He also competed for his country at the A World Cup in 2004 and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 Kazakh champion with Kaszink torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	109	7th	17th	24	96
Playoffs	1	5	0	0	0	2

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Denis Schemelin at hockeydb.com (English)
• Denis Nikolajewitsch Schemelin at eurohockey.com
• Denis Schemelin at eliteprospects.com (English)