Serhiy Klymentiev Ice hockey player

Serhiy Volodomyrovych Klymentiev (Ukrainian: Сергій Володимирович Климентьєв; born April 5, 1975) is retired Ukrainian ice hockey defenceman.Klymentiev played junior hockey for the Medicine Hat Tigers in the WHL during the 1993–1994 and 1994–1995 seasons. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres 121st overall in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft and spent 3 seasons with their American Hockey League affiliate the Rochester Americans. In 1998 he signed with the Philadelphia Flyers and was once more sent to the AHL, suiting up for the Philadelphia Phantoms. He was traded to the Nashville Predators for cash in the same season, playing for the Milwaukee Admirals their International Hockey League affiliate. He returned to Russia in 1999 having never played in the National Hockey League. He only ever returned to North America once, where he played seven games for the IHL's Houston Aeros. He retired in 2013.

Personal facts

Serhiy Klymentiev
Birth dateApril 05, 1975
Birth place
Soviet Union , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , Kiev
Height (meters)1.8542
Weight (Kilograms)87.0912

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Ice hockey player

Career start1994
Career end2013
draft121st overall
draft team
Buffalo Sabres
draft year1994
former team
Ak Bars Kazan
Avangard Omsk
HC MVD
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
league
Belarusian Extraleague
position
Defenceman
shootsLeft
teams
Sokil Kyiv

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