Nikolai Zhilin (born May 23, 1992) is a
Russian
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*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
professional
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...
defenceman
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. He is currently playing for
Yuzhny Ural Orsk
Yuzhny Ural Orsk is an ice hockey team in Orsk, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of ice hockey in Russia.
History
The original club (then Yuzhuralmash) was founded in 1958. It ceased to exist by the end of the 1990s but was revived ...
of the
Supreme Hockey League
The Supreme Hockey League (SHL) (russian: Высшая хоккейная лига (ВХЛ), links=no, ''Vysshaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)''), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league ...
(VHL).
Zhilin made his KHL debut playing with
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
HC Avtomobilist (russian: Автомобилист Екатеринбург) are a professional ice hockey team based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. They replaced Khimik Voskresensk in the Kontinental Hockey League in 2009.
Histo ...
during the
2013–14 KHL season, playing ten games and registering one assist.
References
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1992 births
Living people
Ariada Volzhsk players
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players
HC Izhstal players
Russian ice hockey defencemen
PSK Sakhalin players
Sokol Krasnoyarsk players
Sportspeople from Khabarovsk
Sputnik Nizhny Tagil players
Yermak Angarsk players
Yuzhny Ural Orsk players
MsHK Žilina players
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Russian expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate ice hockey players in China
Expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia
Russian expatriate ice hockey people
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