Aleksey Emelin: Emelya will sweep ...

Roughness or stiffness? It is quite difficult to separate here “flies from cutlets” when you follow the game of such a hockey defender as the honored master of sports of Russia Alexei Emelin. The world champion himself and two-time Gagarin Cup winner categorically does not consider himself a snapper: just hockey is a tough game. As they say, it’s necessary ...

In the "assembly shop" of the city

Aleksey was born in the capital of the Russian automobile industry, which had practically died in the Bose, in the glorious city of Tolyatti. However, this Volga city can be more proud of one more of its “products” - also “Lada”, but hockey. The team, which had previously eked out a miserable existence in the depths of the Soviet Second League, at the turn of the eras, issued an enchanting game and won a vintage name. Even chronic financial troubles still cannot wash away the won "noble" regalia from Lada.

And Lada is famous for its pupils. One of those gathered in the "hockey shop" of the city is hockey player Alexei Emelin. He made his debut in Lada-2. But he made a name for himself in Vekhaelovskaya Samara, where he finally decided on his style as part of the "military pilots" (TsSK VVS). Stiffness is on the verge of rules. For the season - 289 minutes of a penalty!

Emelyn "mill"

From rent "Lada" formed tough guy a la rusu returned with joy. Emelin was already one of those who did not let the attackers relax and focus solely on the game. You lead, you lead a puck, you beat, you don’t seem to hurt anyone, but here ... bang! You fly somersault over your head, spread yourself around the board, get a blow to the hull, from which you catch your breath, or ... Add the options yourself.

Emelin plays in defense according to the old Canadian canons: not in a small brainless puck, but in a much larger body of the player who owns it, who is a representative of the class of higher intelligent creatures on Earth. Which is very allowed by the rules. Forgets about this when meeting with Alexei quickly refresh their memory. The trouble is that when a forest is cut, chips will fly. Sometimes Alexei cannot play cleanly. So the opponent managed to free himself from the puck, but you won’t stop, and you get an “attack of a player who does not own the puck” and even with a “push on board”. Rudeness, in general.

Not everyone likes hockey. It is very difficult to create and enchant in the presence of such defenders, which kills the elegance of hockey. Well, that’s the game. Do not “sleep”, otherwise you’ll fall under Emelya.

Hit the "braid" on Svitov

Another thing is that people like Emelin always want to give at least some sort of rebuff. Stress the world, be prepared for the fact that it will strain you even more.

Emelin, who transferred to the champion “Ak Bars”, took note. He suffered enough overt rudeness on his actions, and therefore it is not surprising, probably, that he began to see only enemies on the court among rivals. For example, in 2006, the defender of Magnitogorsk Metallurg Evgeni Varlamov threw the puck and accidentally very painfully hit it in Emelin. I drove up to apologize and received a "pardon" ... in the jaw with severe traumatic consequences.

Disqualification did not cool Emelin. Nobody could give him a direct rebuff in the KHL. Until March 14, 2009 ...

There is such a nice trick against the player who owns the puck - "scythe on a stone." The defender rolls up, sits down under the attacker, straightens up, and the latter flies somersault for a long time and painfully, landing painfully on the ice under the delight of the stands. Caught on such a striker is also a shame. Emelin, by the way, is fluent in perfection.

But on March 14, 2009, another incident ended in a fight with the forward of “Vanguard” Alexander Svitov, a hockey player with experience in playing in the NHL. The result - an anatomically complete face, Emelin no longer has: a comminuted fracture of the facial bone, four titanium plates. Since then, Emelin has not committed atrocities simply out of principle. No, he does not avoid collisions, has not fundamentally changed the style of the game, and may even enter into a brawl. He became wiser, moments of outright rudeness for him is no longer observed. By the way, for the Russian team this is good. This is in the regular multi-match season, you can afford a lot of penalty time and disqualification, and in small-match tournaments of national teams even two minutes is a blow to your team.

"Canadian"

After Kazan, Alexei went to Montreal, who drafted it after the gold for Emelin junior World Cup in 2004. Emelin did not achieve much success with the team there, but he did not let the tafgai laurels fall from himself. Here is even a cut of "hits", as they say about such exploits in the NHL, there is.

It is much more important for us that during this period the Russian team with Emelin as part of it became the world champion.

After the NHL expansion draft, Emelin ended up at the Vegas Golden Knight Rookie Club, but was exchanged for it at the Nashville Predators. Having played the season for “predators”, Alex decided to return to Russia, to “Vanguard”.

Career Alexei Emelin continues. We do not even doubt that Emelya will eventually sweep away everything that fate will prepare for him. Tafgai just do not exist.

Dossier

Emelin Alexey Vyacheslavovich.

Hockey player.

Born 04/25/1986 in Tolyatti.

Role: Defender.

Anthropometry: 186 cm, 97 kg.

Career (statistics by Alexei Emelin):

• 2002-03, 2004-05 - “Lada-2” (Tolyatti) - The first league of Russia - 44 games, 1 goal, 2 assists, 44 minutes of a penalty.
• 2003-04 - CSK Air Force (Samara) - VHL - 53 games, 2 goals, 4 assists, 289 minutes.
• 2004-07 - “Lada” (Tolyatti) - RSL - 110 games, 8 goals, 13 assists, 282 minutes.
• 2007-11, 2012-13 - “Ak Bars” (Kazan) - KHL - 277 games, 20 goals, 46 assists, 371 minutes.
• 2011-17 - “Montreal Canadiens” - NHL - 409 games, 15 goals, 62 assists, 339 minutes.
• 2017-18 - “Nashville Predators” - NHL - 85 games, 1 goal, 8 assists, 40 minutes.
• since 2018 - “Vanguard” (Omsk) - KHL - 18 games, 1 goal, 6 assists (as of 10/23/2018), 4 minutes.
• 2007-16 - Russian national team - world championships, Olympic games, World Cup - 55 games, 4 goals, 7 assists, 105 minutes.

Achievements:

• World Gold 2012.
• Silver of the world in 2010.
• Bronze World 2007, 2016.
• World Junior Gold 2004.
• Youth silver of the world 2005, 2006.
• Continental Cup 2006, 2008.
• Gagarin Cup 2009, 2010.
• ZMS (2012th).

Personal life: wife Valentine, two daughters.