Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) Name Serhiy Klymentiev Positions Defenseman Playing career Career start 1994 | Weight 87 kg Shot Left Role Ice hockey player | |
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BLR teamFormer teams Sokil KyivSalavat Yulaev UfaTorpedo Nizhny NovgorodAvangard OmskAk Bars KazanMetallurg MagnitogorskHC MVD Moscow Oblast NHL Draft 121st overall, 1994Buffalo Sabres | ||
Serhiy Volodomyrovych Klymentiev (Ukrainian: Сергій Володимирович Климентьєв; born April 5, 1975) is retired Ukrainian ice hockey defenceman.
Klymentiev was named best defenceman at the C Pool of the 1993 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships held in Odense, Denmark. He 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.