Yevgeny Anatolyevich Blochin

Yevgeny Blochin
Date of birth	May 29, 1979
place of birth	Kazakh SSR
size	184 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	defender
number	# 5
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1996-1997	HK Lada Tolyatti
1997-1998	Disel Pensa
1998-2001	Ishstal Izhevsk
2001-2004	Motor Barnaul
2004-2005	Kasachmys Karaganda
2005-2006	HK MWD Tver
2006-2007	HK Dynamo Moscow Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2007-2008	HK Sibir Novosibirsk HK Dynamo Moscow
2008-2009	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2009–2012	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2012-2013	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2013-2015	Barys Astana

Yevgeny Anatoljewitsch Blochin ( Russian Евгений Анатольевич Блохин ; born May 29, 1979 in the Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who was last under contract with Barys Astana from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Yevgeny Blochin began his career as a hockey player with HK Lada Tolyatti , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Russian Super League in the 1996/97 season . He then played for a season for their league rivals Disel Pensa , before the defender was under contract for three years each with Ischstal Ischewsk and Motor Barnaul in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. For the 2004/05 season he returned to his Kazakh homeland, where he played for Kasachmys Karaganda in the Wysschaya League and the Kazakh Championship in parallel .

From 2005 to 2008 Blochin played for HK MWD Tver , HK Dynamo Moscow , Metallurg Novokuznetsk and HK Sibir Novosibirsk in the super league. For the 2008/09 season , the left shooter moved to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the newly founded Continental Hockey League . In this he scored two goals and three assists in a total of 35 games. He was then committed by HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk , with whom he was second division champion in the 2009/10 season and rose to the KHL.

After two more years for Ugra in the KHL Blochin left the club in May 2012 and moved to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk together with Pavel Vorobjow . There, however, it only lasted one season: In the summer of 2013, he moved within the KHL to the Kazakh top club Barys Astana and played there until the end of the 2014/15 season.

International

For Kazakhstan Blochin took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 1999 . Furthermore, he was in his country's squad at the A World Championships in 2005 and 2006 , and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . After a five-year international break, Blochin appeared again for the first time for the Kazakh team at the 2011 Asian Winter Games, which were played in their home country, and won the title with them with a 4-1 win in the decisive game against Japan . In 2013 he was both for the Olympic qualification , in which the Kazakhs failed by a narrow 3-2 defeat against the hosts at the tournament in Riga , and for Division I of the 2013 World Cup , in which the return to the top division succeeded , nominated.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 promotion to the Continental Hockey League with HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
• 2011 gold medal at the Asian Winter Games
• 2013 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	5	212	19th	34	53	240
KHL playoffs	4th	16	3	1	4th	14th
Super League main round	5	105	0	8th	8th	124
Super League Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2013/14 season)

Web links

• Jewgeni Blochin at eliteprospects.com (English)