Maxim Chudjakov

Maxim Chudjakov
Date of birth	August 18, 1986
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size	170 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	center
number	# 15
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
until 2004	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2004	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2004-2005	Barys Astana
2005-2006	Kasachmys Karaganda Gornjak Rudny
2006	Metallurgist Serov
2006-2009	HK Sary-Arka Karaganda
2010–2012	Barys Astana
2012-2013	HK Sary-Arka Karaganda
2013-2014	HK Ryazan
2014-2015	HK Ertis Pavlodar
2015-2017	Barys Astana
since 2017	Beibarys Atyrau

Maxim Sergejewitsch Chudjakow (born August 18, 1986 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh ice hockey player who has been under contract with Beibarys Atyrau since June 2017 . His brother Sergei is also a Kazakh national ice hockey player.

Career

Maxim Chudjakow began his career as a hockey player in Russia, where he was active from 2002 to 2004 for the second teams of the professional clubs HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk and HK Sibir Novosibirsk in the third-rate Pervaya League . Then the attacker returned to Kazakhstan and played in the 2004/05 season for Barys Astana in parallel in the Kazakh championship , as well as the Russian Pervaya League. In the following season he ran for Kasachmys Karaganda and Gornjak Rudny in the Kazakh championship. For Gornjak Rudny he also played three times in the Pervaya League.

The 2006/07 season began Chudjakow at the Russian club Metallurg Serow in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, but left this after only 17 games and was for three years until 2009 at HK Sary-Arka Karaganda in the Perwaja Liga, Wysschaja Liga and Kazakh championship on the ice. Before the 2010/11 season , the right-handed shooter was committed by his ex-club Barys Astana, for which he was used in the Continental Hockey League in the following two years . He then returned to HK Sary-Arka Karaganda in May 2012 and moved to HK Ryazan in the Wysschaja Hockey League in 2013 .

Since January 2014 Chudjakow was with HK Ertis Pavlodar in the Kazakh Championship under contract and won with this the championship title in 2014 and 2015. In 2015 he returned to Barys Astana, where he makes a new attempt in the Continental Hockey League .

International

For Kazakhstan , Chudjakow took part in the junior division of the U20 World Junior Championships in Division I in 2005 and 2006 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in Division I in 2011 and 2015 . At the 2016 World Cup , he played in the top division for the first time, but could not keep up with the Kazakhs there. He also represented his colors at the Winter Asian Games , where he won the gold medal with the Kazakh selection, and in the Olympic qualification for the Winter Games in Pyeongchang 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 gold medal at the Asian Winter Games
• 2011 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2014 Kazakh champion with the HK Ertis Pavlodar
• 2015 Kazakh champion with HK Ertis Pawlodar
• 2015 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	74	15th	20th	35	26th
KHL playoffs	1	4th	1	0	1	2
Vysschaya Hockey League main round	2	59	6th	12	18th	32
Vysschaya Hockey League Playoffs	1	4th	0	1	1	0

(Status: end of the 2015/16 season)

Web links

• Maxim Chudjakow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Maxim Chudjakow at eliteprospects.com (English)