Mikhail Yuryevich Balandin

Mikhail Balandin
Date of birth	July 27, 1980
place of birth	Lipetsk , Russian SFSR
date of death	September 7, 2011
Place of death	Tunoschna near Yaroslavl , Russia
size	189 cm
Weight	101 kg
position	defender
number	# 39
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1998-2001	Yaroslavl locomotive
2001	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2001-2004	HK Lada Tolyatti
2004-2006	HK CSKA Moscow
2006-2008	Chimik Moskovskaya Oblast
2008-2010	Atlant Mytishchi
2010-2011	OHK dynamo

Mikhail Jurjewitsch Balandin ( Russian Михаил Юрьевич Баландин ; born July 28, 1980 in Lipetsk , Russian SFSR ; † September 7, 2011 in Tunoschna near Yaroslavl , Russia ) was a Russian ice hockey player .

Career

Mikhail Balandin began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of Lokomotive Yaroslavl , for whose professional team he was active in the super league from 1999 to 2001 . At the same time he played in the 1999/2000 season in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, for Disel Pensa and Krylja Sowetow Moscow . The 2001/02 season began the defender at Salawat Yulayev Ufa in the Superliga, but left the club after only four appearances and joined its league rivals HK Lada Tolyatti for the next three years , including in the 2002/03 season four games for his ex-club Lokomotive Yaroslavl on the ice.

From 2004 to 2008 Balandin played two years each for HK CSKA Moscow and Chimik Moskowskaja Oblast in the super league. Then Chimik called himself Atlant Mytishchi , for whom the former junior international played between 2008 and 2010 in the newly founded Continental Hockey League .

For the 2010/11 season , HK Dynamo Moscow and HK MWD Balaschicha merged to form the OHK Dynamo , for which Balandin continued to play. In 2011 he returned to his hometown club in Yaroslavl.

On September 7, 2011, he was killed in a plane crash near Yaroslavl .

International

For Russia Balandin took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2000 . In this he took second place with his team. In seven games he gave one assist.

Achievements and Awards

• 2000 silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	158	12	38	50	92
KHL playoffs	3	13	0	1	1	4th
Super League main round	9	315	9	41	50	224
Super League Playoffs	8th	46	2	5	7th	24

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Lokomotive Yaroslavl ice hockey players who died in the plane crash on izvestia.ru. Accessed on September 7, 2011

Web links

• Michail Balandin at hockeydb.com (English)
• Michail Balandin at eliteprospects.com (English)