Dmitry Yashkin hockey player biography

Events King of the Pentacle game. We met Dmitry Yashkin on June 7, Ak Bars announced the signing of a three -year contract with striker Dmitry Yashkin. We talk about the career of the Russian Czech, twice in three of his last seasons, which has become the best sniper of the KHL. Yashkin-Sr.-a pupil of the Krasnoyarsk hockey, for five seasons in a row, he played for the local Sokol in the third largest division of Soviet hockey, then moved to the Novosibirsk SKA, and made his debut in the USSR High League for the Voskresensky Chemist.

For five years in the suburbs, the defender has grown up to the first pair of defense, took silver and bronze of the Soviet championship, and also managed to play the same link with the Quarter Brothers. But the future striker “Ak Bars” lived in Russia for only 8 months - in winter his father moved to the Czech Republic, where the local “Allitan” became a six -time champion of the country.

It is the second half of the 10ths that is the most successful period in the more than the centenary history of the club from a small town. Silver and bronze of national championship were added to six titles. For several years, young Dmitry came to Russia only for a summer vacation to relatives, and then again went to the Czech Republic. Therefore, for the first time, the grandmother Yashkin was able to see her grandson on the ice only in February of this year, when SKA flew to Omsk.

This was the first case after the transition to the KHL when Yashkin flew to his family. At the time of his speeches for Dynamo, Omsks were based in Balashikha. In the Czech Republic, Yashkin combined hockey with tennis for a long time, but at the age of 14 he finally made a bet on the team game. The striker came to the VSYTINA school with his brother Mikhail - a left -handed defender.

The career of the latter turned out to be short and not as bright as that of the younger brother. Dmitry spent up to a year in the Vestina system, after which he moved to the Academy of Prague Slavia. In Prague, everything is already different. There were difficulties with buses, trolleybuses, trams. But this is life, ”the player told about his move to the capital. Until the age of 17, the striker was waiting for a call to the Russian team from the FCR, after which he made his debut for Czech junior at the Glinka Cup.

And so it coincided that the Czechs played with the Russians as part of the tournament, and the striker abandoned the victorious puck: “I felt the opponent’s desire to imprint me on board, to hit me more and more. So it was and will always be so. Talking on the ice to hurt more than more, to unsettled. I’m used to it, so at every opportunity I try to answer with dignity.

” A year later, the striker went for the ocean, starting his way with a performance for the Monkon Wildkats in the Kvebek junior league. Saint-Louis traditionally leads in the States for Crime index. And in M, Yashkin became a witness to mass protests after the incident using weapons by the police officer: “We lived very close to the crime scene. All protests were literally in front of our eyes.

It was not very pleasant. But in the States in almost every city there are areas that are more dangerous than others. ” In the Saint-Luis system, the striker spent six seasons, periodically finding himself in the Chicago Woolves farm club. During this time, the Blues only once reached the final of the conference. Despite the weakness, the player stably called the Czech Republic for the world championships and the stages of the Eurotour, but here the team remained out of prize places.

Ultimately, Saint-Louis put the player to the Dress Dress, from where the striker took the Washington. At the same time, Dmitry is unlikely to regret the time in Missouri, because those years gave him vast experience, and also acquaintance with his future wife. Nadia Yashkin is from Nizhny Novgorod, an unusual name for most Russians is associated with the girl’s Tatar roots. Having met on social networks, the couple played a wedding in Los Angeles a year later.

And taking into account the fact that the sewage of hockey players in the clubs of North America is very large, in Washington they decided not to give me a new chance, they made a bet on other players, - the forward appreciated that season. To sign a beginner, Muscovites had to pay the monetary compensation of Siberia, which had the right to the player. In the first season, Yashkin found an incredible “chemistry” with Vadim Shipachev, becoming the second scorer of the league.

In February, the Forward designed his first hat-trick in a super-effectively contrasting game with the Riga Dynamo from. In total, the player has already five hat-tricks in the KHL. Following the Gagarin Cup, the legionnaire scored points in each match of the first round with Severstal, however, in the semifinals of the conference on the path of Dynamo, SKA stood, and Muscovites suffered four defeats in a row, catching one game.

In the summer, the player has a contract with Dynamo, and leaving the club was accompanied by material debt. The striker managed to return to the NHL, concluding a one -year contract with Arizona. The club, which over the past 10 seasons has entered the playoffs only twice. The striker managed to hold 12 matches, make an effective program in the game with Minnesota, after which he was injured and dropped out until the end of the season.

Now nothing to return. There was no injury with me, then everything could have developed differently.Otherwise, in my club, things took shape absolutely normal, ”the player emphasized. In the summer, G Yashkin could be at Ak Barca at a time when the club was negotiating with Alexander Radulov in parallel. As a result, the Tatar Devil was in Kazan, and for Yashkin there was no place under the ceiling of salaries.

Forward signed a contract with SKA, in which he won the Bombardira 62 and a sniper 40 race. In the final of the West, the legionnaire was injured and played a series with CSKA on injections, but never distinguished himself with effective actions. According to the results of the season, the Petersburgers did not offer the hockey player a new contract, but Ak Bars signed a hockey player for three years at once.

Yashkin is a quick and overall striker who loves a power struggle. For two seasons in the KHL, he was the best security officer, going for hits. In the past regularity, their number reached the incredible, while Nikita Melonyak, walking the second, all hits. In addition, Yashkin is magnificent in the play on the heel. Due to the dimensions, he can block the review to the goalkeeper and pushing the defenders in the paint.

Correction, finishing - key trump cards of the legionnaire. One of the most popular questions from journalists - who does Yashkin feel: Russians or Czech? I grew up in Europe, and, of course, I have a different mentality. In principle, until I feel big problems in communication. And over time it will be even easier. I would like to separately thank my wife Nadia, she is from Russia.

In recent years, it was with her efforts that I finally did not forget my native language. When we lived in America, she literally forced me to speak Russian correctly. I did not resist, and after a while I began to notice that my pronunciation was better. In general, living in another country, it is very easy to lose your native language - you just don’t notice how you start to forget it, ”the hockey player said in an interview.

He emphasized that most of his life considered himself a Czech with a Russian passport, but after the first arrival in the KHL he was convinced: he was Russian with a Czech passport.