Sergei Klimentiev

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Position Defence
Shoots Left
Height
Weight
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
192 lb (87 kg/13 st 10 lb)
RSL Team
F. teams
Avangard Omsk
Aq Bars Kazan
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
HC MVD Moscow Oblast
Nationality Flag of Ukraine Ukraine
Born April 5, 1975 (1975-04-05) (age 33),
Kiev, USSR
NHL Draft 121st overall, 1994
Buffalo Sabres
Pro career 1994 – present

Sergei Klimentiev (Born April 5, 1975 in Kiev, Ukraine) is an Ice Hockey Defenceman who currently plays for Avangard Omsk in the Russian Super League.

Klimentiev 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.

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