Yuri Alexejewitsch Kmyljow

Yuri Chmylev
Date of birth	August 9, 1964
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1992 , 5th lap, 108th position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1981-1992	Krylya Sovetov Moscow
1992-1996	Buffalo Sabers
1996	St. Louis Blues
1996-1997	Hamilton Bulldogs
1997-1998	Friborg-Gottéron
1998-1999	St. John's Maple Leafs

Yuri Alexejewitsch Chmyljow ( Russian Юрий Алексеевич Хмылёв ; born August 9, 1964 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player .

Career

Chmyljow played from 1981 to 1992 for Krylya Sowetow Moscow . In the 1992 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the fifth round in 108th place by the Buffalo Sabers . That is why he dared to jump into the National Hockey League after the collapse of the Soviet Union . In total, he scored 163 goals in 456 games in the Soviet league .

On April 21, 1981 he was in a game against Czechoslovakia for the first time for the Sbornaja on the ice. On December 8, 1990, he played his last international match for the USSR . At the ice hockey world championships he was world champion three times with his team (1981, 1986, 1989). His international career was crowned with a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics . In 1992 he was inducted into the " Russian Hockey Hall of Fame ".

During his career in the NHL, he played for Buffalo Sabers (1992-1996) and St. Louis Blues (1995-1997).

Web links

• Juri Chmyljow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Juri Chmyljow at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Juri Chmyljow at chidlovski.net (engl.)
• Yuri Chmyljow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )