Alexei Mikhnov

Oleksiy Pavlovych "Alexei" Mikhnov (Ukrainian: Олексій Павлович Міхнов) (born August 31, 1982) is a Ukrainian-Russian[1] professional ice hockey left wing who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played with the Severstal Cherepovets of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Alexei Mikhnov
Born (1982-08-31) August 31, 1982
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 6 ft 5 in (196 cm)
Weight 218 lb (99 kg; 15 st 8 lb)
Position Left wing
Shoots Left
KHL team
Former teams		 Free Agent
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Dynamo Moscow
Sibir Novosibirsk
Edmonton Oilers
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Atlant Moscow Oblast
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
HC Yugra
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
Severstal Cherepovets
National team  Russia
NHL Draft 17th overall, 2000
Edmonton Oilers
Playing career 2000–present

Playing career

Mikhnov was selected in the first round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, 17th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers, and has only played in two NHL games, his first being a 5–2 win versus Phoenix. He was scoreless and even in 4:21 of ice time. His brother Andrei Mikhnov was at one time also a National Hockey League prospect and played in the Ontario Hockey League.

Mikhnov spent four seasons in the Russian Super League, and was considered a power forward prospect. Despite being from Ukraine, Mikhnov (unlike his brother) plays internationally for Russia.

After being drafted in 2000, Mikhnov has been something of a mystery to Oilers fans. Even when he was drafted, he was considered an enigma,[2] and when he first hit Edmonton in 2004, the Oilers' front office discovered that Mikhnov had poor eyesight, leading to the team buying him a pair of glasses.[3]

Mikhnov was one of the more famous players impacted by the inability of the National Hockey League and the Russian ice hockey federation to come to an agreement on a transfer arrangement, a situation which more famously affected Pittsburgh Penguins prospect Evgeni Malkin. On June 20, 2006, according to his agent, Mikhnov gave his two weeks' notice which theoretically could get him out of his contract with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, and by early September Mikhnov was skating in Edmonton, taking a spin on September 3 at the University of Alberta.[4] To date, any legal action by Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to retain Mikhnov like that being used to try to keep Malkin has not reached the press, and on September 5, Mikhnov signed a one-year deal with the Oilers.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs
    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1998–99 Lokomotiv–2 Yaroslavl RUS.2 14 2 2 4 4 — — — — —
1999–2000 Lokomotiv–2 Yaroslavl RUS.3 40 22 13 35 4 — — — — —
2000–01 Krystall–2 Elektrostal RUS.3 46 4 7 11 10 — — — — —
2000–01 THK Tver RUS.2 22 5 11 16 6 — — — — —
2000–01 CSKA Moscow RUS.2 4 0 0 0 2 — — — — —
2001–02 Salavat Yulaev Ufa RSL 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2001–02 Dynamo Moscow RSL 26 2 1 3 4 3 0 0 0 2
2001–02 Dynamo–2 Moscow RUS.3 8 8 6 14 0 — — — — —
2002–03 Sibir Novosibirsk RSL 51 7 9 16 10 — — — — —
2003–04 Sibir Novosibirsk RSL 58 14 8 22 22 — — — — —
2003–04 Sibir–2 Novosibirsk RUS.3 1 1 0 1 0 — — — — —
2004–05 Sibir Novosibirsk RSL 26 3 2 5 12 — — — — —
2004–05 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RSL 18 0 9 9 4 7 0 0 0 4
2004–05 Lokomotiv–2 Yaroslavl RUS.3 4 4 1 5 4 — — — — —
2005–06 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RSL 40 14 7 21 18 11 4 4 8 4
2006–07 Edmonton Oilers NHL 2 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2006–07 Wilkes–Barre/Scranton Penguins AHL 27 6 12 18 22 — — — — —
2006–07 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RSL 11 5 3 8 6 7 2 3 5 4
2007–08 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RSL 52 14 20 34 50 16 3 5 8 14
2008–09 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL 52 16 17 33 57 19 8 4 12 10
2009–10 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL 40 7 14 21 16 17 7 6 13 10
2010–11 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL 30 3 12 15 12 17 1 4 5 12
2011–12 Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 39 8 10 18 12 12 0 3 3 0
2012–13 Atlant Mytishchi KHL 39 11 8 19 22 5 0 1 1 2
2013–14 Atlant Mytishchi KHL 47 7 6 13 10 — — — — —
2014–15 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHL 42 9 7 16 20 5 0 2 2 0
2014–15 THK Tver VHL 6 3 3 6 14 — — — — —
2015–16 Yugra Khanty–Mansiysk KHL 20 2 2 4 6 — — — — —
2015–16 THK Tver VHL 2 1 2 3 0 — — — — —
2015–16 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHL 22 8 5 13 8 6 0 0 0 2
2016–17 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHL 38 6 13 19 12 — — — — —
2016–17 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHL 45 12 10 22 8 3 0 0 0 4
2018–19 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk KHL 6 1 1 2 0 — — — — —
2018–19 HC Csíkszereda EL 8 3 2 5 — — — — —
2018–19 HC Csíkszereda ROU 10 20 15 35 12 — — — — —
2018–19 Severstal Cherepovets KHL 22 5 2 7 4 — — — — —
2019–20 Metallurg Zhlobin BLR 50 18 18 36 63 4 1 1 2 0
2020–21 Metallurg Zhlobin BLR 41 14 18 32 16 13 8 5 13 2
2021–22 Metallurg Zhlobin BLR 53 27 26 53 37 7 5 3 8 0
RSL totals 283 59 59 118 126 44 9 12 21 26
NHL totals 2 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
KHL totals 442 95 107 202 187 84 16 20 36 40

International
Year Team Event Result   GP G A Pts PIM
2006 Russia WC 5th 7 4 2 6 2
Senior totals 7 4 2 6 2

References
  1. The Ukrainian Weekly
  2. USA Today (accessed September 4, 2006)
  3. "Oilers top 20 ranking" Archived 2004-07-06 at the Wayback Machine (accessed September 4, 2006)
  4. "Mikhnov arrives, set for rookie camp" (accessed September 4, 2006)

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