Yury Alexandrov

Yury Alexandrov is a product of the Cherepovets hockey school. After playing two seasons with Severstal's reserve team, he stepped up to the main team in 2005. A year later in 2006 he was chosen by the Boston Bruins in the second round of the NHL Draft, and signed a two year contact with the club in 2010. In the 2010/2011 season Yury was with Boston's farm club. He then returned to the KHL with SKA, but was then sent to Avangard Omsk where he was a finalist of the Gagarin Cup. After the end of the 2011/2012 season Yury returned to Saint Petersburg, and has since become one of the team's most important defenceman, winning the Continental Cup in 2013. In 2015, he won a Russian championship silver medal as well as the KHL Gagarin Cup. Internationally he started playing with the Russian youth team when he was 18 years old. In 2007 he was a silver medalist of the World Junior Championships, and a year later he won bronze in the same tournament. Yury regularly plays with the second Russian national team, and has competed with the main team at the Euro Hockey Tour.