Thirty-five-year-old Alex Semin is continuing his career in the Kontinental Hockey League this season and playing for HC Vityaz for the second straight year. After wearing an “A” for Vityaz during the 2018-19 campaign, Semin was officially announced as the captain days before the season.
He wore the captain’s “C” Monday in Vityaz’s regular-season opener against Traktor Chelyabinsk.
It has been over seven years since Alex Semin shared the Capitals locker room with Alex Ovechkin, but the two Sashas proved they are still fast friends when, on Sunday, Semin attended the birthday party of Ovechkin’s one-year-old son, Sergei.
Ovechkin, holding Sergei, stood next to Semin, who appeared to be holding his young son, Danil. The pair watched as a troop of six dyed poodles performed tricks at the elaborate birthday party being thrown in Sergei’s honor.
By Elizabeth Kong 5 months ago
Former Capital Alex Semin wore the captain’s “K” on his jersey for a friendly preseason game in the KHL. Semin led HC Vityaz in their first exhibition game of the summer against Metallurg Magnitogorsk, which they lost by a score of 3-2. The game was played in Germany where the teams’ training camps are located.
Semin signed a one-year contract extension with Vityaz in May for the 2018-19 season after serving as one of the team’s alternate captain. The head coach of Vityaz referred to Semin as one of the team’s leaders.
By Brennin Weiswerda 6 months ago
Alex Semin’s hockey career will continue for another season. Saturday, the former Capitals forward signed a one-year contract extension with HC Vityaz, which plays near Moscow.
Last season, the 35-year-old winger had 41 points in 54 games (19 goals and 22 assists). He served as one of the team’s alternate captains.
34-year-old Alex Semin is currently playing in the KHL again after flirting with grad school.
Wednesday, Semin’s Vityaz lost 6-0 to SKA St. Petersberg, but the former Capitals forward left an indelible mark on the game.
And by “indelible mark” I mean blood.
Ex-Capital and everyone’s favorite enigmatic Russian Alexander Semin will make his return to big-league hockey next season. Semin will play for the KHL’s Vityaz, which roughly translates as “The Knights”.
By Graham Dumas 2 years ago
Former Capitals forward Alexander Semin, who has been playing this season for Sokol Krasnoyarsk of Russia’s second-tier Vyschaya Khokeinaya Liga (VHL), has taken a leave of absence of unspecified duration from the club to return to the United States following the birth of his second child, Danil.
By Graham Dumas 2 years ago
Although over the summer he enrolled in Siberian Federal University, former Capital Alexander Semin has resumed his hockey career, playing for HK Sokol Kransoyarsk, a team in Russia’s Vysshaya Khokeinaya Liga, or VHL.
The VHL is Russia’s second professional hockey league, the rough equivalent of North America’s AHL. Semin, who grew up in Krasnoyarsk, previously played four games with Sokol in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season.
By Graham Dumas 2 years ago
On Tuesday, former Capitals 40-goalscorer Alex Semin spoke to Championat’s Darya Tuboltseva. He answered questions about his move to graduate school and how he hopes he lands a contract offer from the NHL or KHL soon.
He also was asked about some of his past detractors in the NHL such as NBC’s Pierre McGuire.
“This is not a great teammate,” McGuire said on July 1, 2012 when Semin was an unrestricted free agent. “I’ll tell you that right now, not a good guy to have around your group unless you have unbelievably great leadership and rely on that. He’s the ultimate coach killer, that’s what he is.”
Semin, who signed a one-year deal that summer with the Carolina Hurricanes, admitted he had heard about the quote.
Over the summer, former Capitals young gun Alex Semin surprised the hockey world when word leaked out that he would pursue a master’s degree in the Theory and Technology of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy.
In late August, Semin passed his entrance exam and was officially accepted into Siberian Federal University, receiving a state-funded position in the university’s Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Materials Science program. He begins classes on September 1st.
But in a recent interview with Championat’s Darya Tuboltseva, the 33-year-old star was adamant that his hockey career is not over.
