Marat Natfulowitsch Kalimulin

Marat Kalimulin
Date of birth	20th August 1988
place of birth	Tolyatti , Russian SFSR
date of death	September 7, 2011
Place of death	Tunoschna near Yaroslavl , Russia
size	185 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	defender
number	# 74
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
until 2010	HK Lada Tolyatti
2010-2011	Yaroslavl locomotive

Marat Natfulowitsch Kalimulin ( Russian Марат Натфулович Калимулин ; born August 20, 1988 in Tolyatti , Russian SFSR ; † September 7, 2011 in Tunoschna near Yaroslavl ) was a Russian ice hockey player who played for the HK Lada Tolyatti and Lokomotiv in the continental area during his career Hockey League was under contract.

Career

Marat Kalimulin began his career as a hockey player in the youth division of HK Lada Tolyatti , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Russian Super League in the 2005/06 season . The defender scored one goal in eleven games and prepared another. With Lada he won the IIHF Continental Cup in 2006 . In this as in the following season, however, he was used almost exclusively for Lada's second team in the third-class Perwaja League . Since the 2008/09 season , the junior international played for Tolyatti in the newly formed Continental Hockey League . In 2010 he switched to Lokomotive Yaroslavl .

Kalimulin was killed in a plane crash near Yaroslavl on September 7, 2011 .

International

For Russia Kalimulin took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2008 , where he finished third with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 IIHF Continental Cup win with the HK Lada Tolyatti
• 2008 bronze medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
• 2011 KHL Defender of the Month March

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	2	102	4th	19th	23	62
KHL playoffs	1	18th	1	4th	5	2
Super League main round	3	53	1	6th	7th	24
Super League Playoffs	1	4th	0	0	0	2

Web links

• Marat Kalimulin at hockeydb.com (English)
• Marat Kalimulin at eurohockey.com