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Former Washington Capitals Forward Alexander Semin Named President of VHL’s Sokol in Krasnoyarsk
Alexander Semin, who performed for the Washington Capitals from 2003-04 by way of 2011-12, has simply been appointed President of his hometown staff, Sokol Krasnoyarsk of the VHL, as a part of a administration restructuring there.
As well as, a brand new Normal Supervisor/Sports activities Director of the staff was additionally appointed, Alexey Yashkin, a local of Krasnoyarsk and father of one other former Capital, Dmitrij Jaskin, who performed for the Capitals throughout the 2018-19 season.
The personnel adjustments had been introduced by Denis Petrovsky, Minister of Sports activities of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
“At present, we’re present process adjustments within the Sokol hockey membership by way of updating the construction and composition of the management,” stated Petrovsky. “The place of president seems within the construction of the membership, it will likely be our illustrious fellow countryman Alexander Valeryevich Semin. His duties will embody work on figuring out the membership’s technique and, in fact, work on attracting extra extrabudgetary sources of funding. We perceive that the very identify of Alexander Semin is already a model that can appeal to a further viewers, advertisers and potential sponsors.”
Semin expressed his gratitude as he accepted his new place of President.
“To start with, I want to thank Alexander Viktorovich Uss [Governor of Krasnoyarsk Territory] for entrusting me with this place. Maybe, because of the latest All-Star Sport with crammed stands, the management of the Krasnoyarsk Territory has grown much more thinking about ice hockey. In any case, my farewell match confirmed that followers in Krasnoyarsk love this sport very a lot. An important factor now could be to play nicely! On the membership, I shall be confronted with the duty of solely going ahead, exhibiting the very best outcomes and doing every little thing higher than earlier than. I feel that is my foremost purpose. I will even be concerned in attracting extra-budgetary funds to the membership as a way to enhance its work,” stated Semin.
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The Capitals initially drafted Semin within the first spherical of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft with choose #13 total. He was one of many extra essential gamers throughout the Capitals’ “Younger Weapons” period along with his finest 12 months coming in 2009-10 the place he scored 40 objectives and had 44 assists.
Throughout his tenure with the Capitals, he scored 197 objectives and had 211 assists. After leaving the Capitals, he performed with the Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens earlier than persevering with his profession within the KHL. He performed for Metallurg Magnitogorsk and HC Vityaz close to Moscow, successful the Gagarin Cup in 2016 with a staff that included former Capitals Oscar Osala and Wojtek Wolski and goalie Ilya Samsonov.
Semin’s final season as a participant was with HC Vityaz within the KHL in 2020-21. He introduced his retirement as a participant this summer season and held a Farewell to Hockey charity recreation to have a good time his retirement. In attendance for that recreation had been Alex Ovechkin, Dmitry Orlov, and Pavel Datsyuk.
By Diane Doyle
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