Rafael Midchatowitsch Akhmetov

Rafael Akhmetov
Date of birth	January 31, 1989
place of birth	Leninogorsk , Russian SFSR
size	188 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2008	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2008-2009	Neftyanik Leninogorsk
2009-2010	Ishstal Izhevsk
2010-2011	Neftjanik Almetyevsk
2011	HK Poprad
2011-2013	Yaroslavl locomotive
2013	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2014	Yaroslavl locomotive
2014	HK Sochi
2014-2015	Amur Khabarovsk
2015	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2016-2018	HK Lada Tolyatti

Rafael Midchatowitsch Akhmetov ( Russian Рафаэль Мидхатович Ахметов ; born January 31, 1989 in Leninogorsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with HK Lada Tolyatti in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Rafael Akhmetov began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Russian Super League in the 2007/08 season . In four games he stayed without points and received two penalty minutes. Most of the season he spent, however, with Neftechimik's second team in the third-rate Perwaja League . In the 2008/09 season , the striker scored 30 scorer points in 48 games as a loan player for Neftjanik Leninogorsk , including eleven goals in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. He was also on the ice in a game for Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk in the newly formed Continental Hockey League .

In the 2009/10 season Akhmetov ran in a total of 53 games for Ischstal Izhevsk in the Wysschaja Liga, where he scored 31 points, including 14 goals. At the same time he was in two games for Reaktor Nizhnekamsk, the junior team of Neftechimik, in the multinational junior league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga on the ice and scored one goal and one template each. The Russian spent the 2010/11 season at Neftjanik Almetyevsk in the new Russian second division, the Wysschaja Hockey League . He scored eight goals in a total of 64 games and provided 22 templates.

For the 2011/12 season Akhmetov was signed by the Slovak KHL newcomer HC Lev Poprad . There he could not prevail and played exclusively for Lev's farm team HK Poprad in the Slovak extra league . In November 2011 he was transferred to Lokomotive Yaroslavl , in whose rebuilding he helped in the Vysschaja Hockey League.

In June 2013 Akhmetov was exchanged along with three other players for Sachar Arsamaszew from Metallurg Novokuznetsk , but returned to Lokomotiv in January for compensation. In June 2014, he moved to the newly founded HK Sochi , whereby Lokomotive also received financial compensation. For Sochi, he completed 29 KHL games before he was given up for financial compensation to Amur Khabarovsk . There he played until October 2015 and completed 26 other KHL games. At the end of October 2015 he was hired by his home club Neftechimik and handed over to HK Lada Tolyatti two months later in exchange for a right to vote for the KHL Junior Draft 2016 .

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes	Plus / minus
KHL main round	6th	215	7th	29	36	110	−45
KHL playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	2	± 0
Super League main round	1	4th	0	0	0	2	± 0
Super League Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2017/18 season)

Web links

• Rafael Achmetow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hclokomotiv.ru, Арзамасцев: Хочу Бороться За Кубок Гагарина! ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.