Jakow Andrejewitsch Selesnjow

Yakov Seleznyov
Date of birth	4th August 1989
place of birth	Yelabuga , Russian SFSR
size	188 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2005	Molot-Prikamje Perm
2005-2006	Neftjanik Almetyevsk
2006-2007	Neftyanik Leninogorsk
2007-2008	Ak Bars Kazan
2008-2010	Amur Khabarovsk
2010	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2010-2011	HK Spartak Moscow
2011–2012	HK Donbass Donetsk
2012-2015	Vityaz Chekhov
2015-2017	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2017-2018	Jermak Angarsk HK Saryarka Karaganda
since 2018	HK Arlan Kökschetau

Jakow Andrejewitsch Selesnjow ( Russian Яков Андреевич Селезнёв ; born August 4, 1989 in Jelabuga , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Arlan Kökschetau since July 2018 .

Career

Jakow Selesnjow began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth division of Molot-Prikamje Perm , for whose professional team he made his debut in the super league in the 2004/05 season . In his rookie year , he remained pointless in 13 games and received eight penalty minutes. Then the defender played for two and a half years for Neftjanik Almetjewsk and Neftjanik Leninogorsk in the Vysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, before moving to Ak Bars Kazan from the Superliga during the 2007/08 season. He left this at the beginning of the following season after he had completed two games for Kazan in the newly formed Continental Hockey League and joined its league rival Amur Khabarovsk .

For the 2010/11 season Seleznjow was committed by Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk . For the team, however, he only played one game before moving to HK Spartak Moscow in November 2010 within the KHL . After three games in the 2011/12 season, he moved to HK Donbass Donetsk from the Wysschaja Hockey League , with which he also took part in the Continental Cup .

From 2012 Selesnjow was under contract with Vitjas Chekhov and was initially used in parallel with HK Kuban Krasnodar . From June 2015 he played at HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk .

International

For Russia , Selesnjow took part in the U18 Junior World Championship in 2007 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 2008 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 gold medal at the U18 World Junior Championship
• 2008 bronze medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
• 2019 winning the IIHF Continental Cup with HK Arlan Kökschetau

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	84	3	5	8th	103
KHL playoffs	1	4th	0	0	0	4th
Super League main round	2	31	0	1	1	18th
Super League Playoffs	1	10	0	0	0	14th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Jakow Selesnjow at eliteprospects.com (English)