Vitaly Alexandrovich Jachmenev

Vitaly Yachmenev
Date of birth	January 8, 1975
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
size	177 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1994 , 3rd round, 59th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
until 1993	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
1993-1995	North Bay Centennials
1995-1998	Los Angeles Kings
1998-2003	Nashville Predators
2003-2004	Amur Khabarovsk
2004-2005	Ak Bars Kazan
2005-2007	HK Awangard Omsk
2007-2010	HK Dynamo Moscow
2010-2011	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2011-2013	Ruby Tyumen

Vitaly Alexandrowitsch Jatschmenjow ( Russian Виталий Александрович Ячменёв ; born January 8, 1975 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player who has been working as a coach since the end of his career.

Career

Vitaly Yachmenev began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth of HK Traktor Chelyabinsk , for which he was active until 1993. He then moved to the North Bay Centennials in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League , with which he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup in the 1993/94 season . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 in the third round as a total of 59th player by the Los Angeles Kings , for whom he was also on the ice from 1995 to 1998 in the National Hockey League . He was also active for their farm teams , the Phoenix Roadrunners and Long Beach Ice Dogs in the International Hockey League . On July 7, 1998, the Russian was handed over to the Nashville Predators , for which he spent another five years in the NHL, before he was signed by Amur Khabarovsk from the Russian Super League in the summer of 2003 , for which he played in the following season .

After Jachmenev was in the 2004/05 season for Ak Bars Kazan on the ice, he moved to their league rivals HK Awangard Omsk , with whom the left shooter was runner-up in the 2005/06 season, with his team in the final of his former club Ak Bars Kazan was defeated. In the summer of 2007, the winger was signed by HK Dynamo Moscow , for whom he played in the newly founded Continental Hockey League from the 2008/09 season and in 2008 won the Spengler Cup . He spent the 2010/11 season at his hometown club HK Traktor Chelyabinsk in the KHL, before he was committed to the 2011/12 season by Rubin Tyumen from the new Russian second division, the Wysschaja Hockey League .

He ended his career at Rubin Tyumen in 2013 and became the team's assistant coach. Between 2014 and September 2017 he was a member of the HK Traktor coaching staff. He then coached a junior team in the Canadian Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League before becoming assistant coach at Salawat Julajew Ufa for the 2018/19 season . He worked there until summer 2020.

International

For Russia Jatschmenjow took part in the U18 Junior European Championship in 1993 and the Junior World Championship in 1995 , in which he and his team took second place.

Achievements and Awards

1994 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the North Bay Centennials 1994 OHL All-Rookie Team 1994 Emms Family Award 1994 CHL Rookie of the Year

1995 William Hanley Trophy 1995 NHL Rookie of the Month for October 2006 Russian runner-up with the HK Awangard Omsk 2008 Spengler Cup win with HK Dynamo Moscow

International

• 1993 silver medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
• 1995 silver medal at the Junior World Championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	126	15th	34	49	42
KHL playoffs	2	14th	3	4th	7th	6th
NHL Regular Season	8th	487	83	133	216	88
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Witali Jatschmenjow at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Witali Jatschmenjow at eliteprospects.com (English)