Yuri Alexandrovich Alexandrov

Yuri Alexandrov
Date of birth	June 24, 1988
place of birth	Cherepovets , Russian SFSR
size	189 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	defender
number	# 7
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 2nd round, 37th position Boston Bruins
Career stations
2003-2010	Severstal Cherepovets
2010-2011	Providence Bruins
2011–2012	SKA Saint Petersburg HK Awangard Omsk
2012-2015	SKA Saint Petersburg
2015-2016	HK Awangard Omsk
since 2016	HK Sochi

Yuri Alexandrowitsch Alexandrow ( Russian Юрий Александрович Александров ; born June 24, 1988 in Tscherepowez , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Sochi in the Continental Hockey League since October 2016 .

Career

Yuri Alexandrow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior division of Severstal Cherepovets , for whose second team he was active in the Pervaya League , the third Russian division, from 2003 to 2005 . The defender then made his debut for Cherepovets' professional team in the Superliga in the 2005/06 season . He scored one goal in 39 games and gave an assist. Due to his successful rookie year that eventually elected him Boston Bruins in the NHL Entry Draft in 2006 in the second round than a total of 37 players. The Russian junior international stayed with his hometown club, with whom he competed in the newly founded Continental Hockey League from the 2008/09 season . In the summer of 2010, the Bruins brought him to North America, gave him an entry-level contract for two years and used him the following season with their farm team, the Providence Bruins , in the American Hockey League .

In August 2011 he returned to Russia and was signed by SKA Saint Petersburg . For this he played twelve games at the beginning of the 2011/12 season , in which he prepared a goal before he was transferred to HK Awangard Omsk in December 2011 in exchange for Andrei Pervyschin . With Awangard he reached the playoff final for the Gagarin Cup , with Alexandrow scoring 11 points in 34 games. In late March 2012, the NHL transfer rights changed from the Bruins to the New York Islanders .

In June 2012 Alexandrov returned to the SKA and won the Gagarin Cup with it in 2015 . He then returned to Awangard Omsk in exchange for the KHL transfer rights to Alexander Khochlatschow . After a year in Omsk, his contract ran out and Alexandrow moved to HK Sochi .

International

For Russia , Alexandrov took part in the U18 World Junior Championships in 2006 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 2007 and 2008 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2008 bronze medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
• 2015 Gagarin Cup win with SKA Saint Petersburg

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	10	436	32	68	100	314
Playoffs	6th	66	6th	15th	21st	45

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

• Juri Alexandrow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Yuri Alexandrow at eurohockey.com
• Juri Alexandrow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Андрей Первышин обменян в СКА. hawk.ru, December 1, 2011, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 1, 2011 . 
2. ^ Islanders acquire Alexandrov from Bruins. nhl.com, March 20, 2012, accessed June 14, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Александров вернулся в СКА. sports.ru, June 6, 2012, accessed June 14, 2012 . 
4. ↑ В результате обмена между СКА и "Авангардом" состав омского клуба пополнил новоиспеченный новоиспеченный Юровий р. In: khl.ru. August 3, 2015, accessed September 18, 2015 .