Mikhail Alexandrovich Sergachev

Mikhail Sergachev
Date of birth	June 25, 1998
place of birth	Nizhnekamsk , Russia
size	190 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
number	# 22
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 9th position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
2012-2014	HK Vitjas
2014-2015	Irbis Kazan
2015-2017	Windsor Spitfires
since 2017	Tampa Bay Lightning

Mikhail Alexandrovich Sergatschow ( Russian Михаил Александрович Сергачёв ; English transcription: Mikhail Alexandrovich Sergatchev or Sergatchov * 25 June 1998 in Nizhnekamsk ) is a Russian ice hockey player who, since June 2017 the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League is under contract and for this plays on the position of defender .

Career

Sergachev comes from the youth department of Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , the ice hockey club in his hometown. Between 2012 and 2014 he played for the junior team of HK Vitjas from Podolsk , at the same time he completed several international tournaments for the Russian junior national team from 1998 ( Rossija 98 ). In the 2014/15 season , the 16-year-old defender was already represented in the highest Russian junior class, where he played for Irbis Kazan in the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga . After being selected in the CHL Import Draft in the summer of 2015 in sixth overall position by the Windsor Spitfires from the Ontario Hockey League , the Russian promptly moved to the North American continent and was active for the Spitfires in the 2015/16 season . In the course of the game year he played 67 games and collected 57 scorer points . The rookie secured the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the best defender in the league with his performances at the end of the season and was also appointed to both the First All-Star and First All-Rookie teams. Then Sergachev was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2016 in ninth overall position by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League .

The Canadiens signed their draft election back in July 2016. Thanks to his good performance in the pre-season training camp, he first earned a place in the squad of the traditional club at the beginning of the 2016/17 season and made his competitive debut on October 13, 2016. After three NHL appearances, however, the Canadiens sent him back to the Spitfires in the OHL at the end of October, where the defender should develop his game. With the Spitfires Sergachev won the Memorial Cup at the end of the season and was elected to the all-star team of the tournament.

On June 15, 2017, the Defender was finally in exchange for the Canadian striker Jonathan Drouin to the Tampa Bay Lightning made. If Sergachev had played fewer than 40 NHL games during the entire 2017/18 season , the Lightning would also have received a second-round vote in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft and the Canadiens a six- round vote in the same draft. This condition was not met in the episode, however, as the Russian played almost all games for Tampa with 79 games and scored 40 points.

International

Sergachev represented his home country at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 in November , the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2015 , the U18 Junior World Championships in 2015 and 2016 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 2017 . The defender was able to win the gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge and the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival and the bronze medal at the 2017 U20 World Junior Championships. He also finished the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival as the best goal preparer of the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

2016 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game 2016 OHL First All-Rookie Team 2016 OHL First All-Star Team 2016 Max Kaminsky Trophy

2017 OHL Second All-Star Team 2017 Memorial Cup win with the Windsor Spitfires 2017 Memorial Cup All-Star Team

International

2014 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2015 gold medal at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2015 Best template provider of the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

2017 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship 2019 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2014/15	Irbis Kazan	MHL		25th	2	6th	8th	18th		2	0	0	0	0
2015/16	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		67	17th	40	57	56		5	2	3	5	8th
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		50	10	33	43	71		7th	1	2	3	10
2017	Windsor Spitfires	Memorial Cup								4th	1	3	4th	2
2017/18	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		79	9	31	40	38		17th	2	3	5	12
2018/19	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		75	6th	26th	32	28		4th	1	1	2	0
OHL total				117	27	73	100	127		12	3	5	8th	18th
NHL overall				158	15th	57	72	66		21st	3	4th	7th	12

International

Represented Russia in:

World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 (November) European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2015 U18 Junior World Championship 2015

U18 Junior World Championship 2016 U20 Junior World Championship 2017 World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2014	Russia	U17-WHC			6th	1	0	1	8th
2015	Russia	EOWYF			3	0	8th	8th	0
2015	Russia	U18 World Cup	5th place		5	0	0	0	0
2016	Russia	U18 World Cup	6th place		5	0	0	0	8th
2017	Russia	U20 World Cup			7th	1	0	1	4th
2019	Russia	WM			10	1	6th	7th	0
Juniors overall					26th	2	8th	10	20th
Men overall					10	1	6th	7th	0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the Tampa Bay Lightning website
• Mikhail Sergachev at eliteprospects.com (English)