Yuri Gennadjewitsch Buzajew

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Yuri Buzayev
Date of birth October 11, 1978
place of birth Tolyatti , Russian SFSR
size 185 cm
Weight 96 kg
position Left wing
number # 46
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1997 , 2nd lap, 49th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1995-1999 HK Lada Tolyatti
1999 HK Dynamo Moscow
1999-2000 Detroit Red Wings
2000-2002 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
2002 Atlanta Thrashers
Chicago Wolves
2002-2003 Yaroslavl locomotive
2003 HK CSKA Moscow
2003-2005 HK Lada Tolyatti
2005-2006 HK MWD Balashikha
2006-2007 HK Lada Tolyatti
2007-2009 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2009-2010 HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2010-2011 Sauralje Kurgan
2011–2012 HK CSKA Moscow

Yuri Gennadjewitsch Buzajew ( Russian Юрий Геннадьевич Буцаев * 11. October 1978 in Tolyatti , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian hockey players , among others for the HK Lada Tolyatti , HC CSKA Moscow , HC Ugra and Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the Continental hockey league was active. He also played 99 games in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings and the Atlanta Thrashers . His brother Vyacheslav was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Yuri Buzajew began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of the HK Lada Tolyatti , for whose professional team he was active in the super league from 1995 to 1999 . He was in the 1996/97 season Russian runner-up with his team. In addition, he was selected during his time at HK Lada in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft in the second round as a total of 49 players by the Detroit Red Wings . Initially, however, the winger stayed in Russia and moved towards the end of the 1998/99 season within the Super League for HK Dynamo Moscow . For the 1999/2000 season , the Detroit Red Wings ordered him to North America and in his rookie year he was an immediate regular in the National Hockey League . For the Michigan team, he scored five goals in 57 games and gave three assists. In the following two years, however, he could no longer prevail in Detroit's NHL team and spent most of the time with their farm team , the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks , in the American Hockey League .

On March 19, 2002 Buzajew was given together with a third-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 2002 in exchange for the Czech Jiří Šlégr to the Atlanta Thrashers . Until the end of the 2001/02 season , the Russian played mostly for their AHL farm team Chicago Wolves , with whom he won the Calder Cup . He also started the 2002/03 season at the same time with the Atlanta Thrashers in the NHL and the Chicago Wolves in the AHL, but left the franchise in November 2002 and returned to his Russian homeland, where he was Russian for the first time with Lokomotive Yaroslavl in 2003 Master became. He then signed a contract with HK CSKA Moscow , for which he only played until December 2003, before he was accepted at his home club HK Lada Tolyatti. With the HK Lada, he became the Russian runner-up in 2005 for the second time in his career.

From 2005 to 2007 Buzajew played for one year each for the super league clubs HK MWD Balaschicha and again HK Lada Tolyatti. He was then obliged by Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod , with whom he took part in the newly founded Continental Hockey League from the 2008/09 season . The left shooter spent the 2009/10 season at HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk in the Vysschaja League and rose to the KHL as a second division champion with his team. Nevertheless, he left the club and joined the KHL participant HK Sibir Novosibirsk for the 2010/11 season , but was mostly used by Sauralje Kurgan in the second-rate Wysschaja Hockey League .

In the 2011/12 season Buzayev was under contract with HK CSKA Moscow , where his brother Vyacheslav worked as a coach.

International

For Russia , Buzayev took part in the 1997 U20 World Youth Championship . In this, he and his team took third place and won the bronze medal. He himself contributed to this success with one goal in six games.

Achievements and Awards

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 4th 99 10 4th 14th 28
NHL playoffs - - - - - -
KHL main round 2 61 9 11 20th 71
KHL playoffs - - - - - -
Super League main round 10 373 67 66 133 409
Super League Playoffs 6th 47 8th 11 19th 36

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

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personal data
SURNAME Buzajew, Yuri Gennadjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butsayev, Yuri (English spelling); Буцаев, Юрий Геннадьевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tolyatti , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union