Egor Konstantinovich Yakovlev (russian: Егор Константинович Яковлев; born 17 September 1991) is a

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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 Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the latter a reference to ...

for

Metallurg Magnitogorsk Metallurg Magnitogorsk (russian: Металлург Магнитогорск) is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League. They ...

of the

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...

(KHL). He previously played in the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...

(NHL) with the New Jersey Devils. Internationally, Yakovlev was part of the

team on numerous occasions, winning the 2014 IIHF World Championships, as well as the gold medal at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

Playing career

Yakovlev made his

(KHL) debut playing with

Ak Bars Kazan Hockey Club Ak Bars (russian: Ак Барс, tt-Cyrl, Ак Барс, en, Snow Leopard), also known as Ak Bars Kazan, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Kazan. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey ...

during the

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. On 20 October 2011, Yakovlev signed a three-year deal with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. He was the first player signed by the club after the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash that killed the majority of its roster six weeks earlier. On 7 June 2015, he signed a three-year contract with KHL powerhouse SKA Saint Petersburg. On 21 May 2018, Yakovlev signed a one-year, entry-level contract with the New Jersey Devils of the

(NHL). Yakovlev began the 2018–19 season with the Devils

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affiliate, the

Binghamton Devils The Binghamton Devils were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) that played from 2017 to 2021 as the top minor league affiliate of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s New Jersey Devils. Based in Binghamton, New Y ...

. He made his NHL debut on 11 November against the

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and scored his first career NHL goal on 3 December in a 5–1 loss to the

Tampa Bay Lightning The Tampa Bay Lightning (colloquially known as the Bolts) are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. They play th ...

. Yakovlev split the season between New Jersey and Binghamton, finishing with 2 goals and 7 points in 25 games in the NHL. As an impending free agent, Yakovlev left the Devils in order to return to continue his career in the KHL, signing a two-year contract with hometown club, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, on 15 May 2019.

International play

On 23 January 2022, Yakovlev was named to the roster to represent

Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Russian athletes competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022. On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for four years, after it was found that data ...

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

References

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* 1991 births Living people Ak Bars Kazan players Binghamton Devils players Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics JHC Bars players Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Metallurg Magnitogorsk players New Jersey Devils players Olympic gold medalists for Olympic Athletes from Russia Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes Olympic ice hockey players of Russia Olympic medalists in ice hockey People from Magnitogorsk Russian ice hockey defencemen SKA Saint Petersburg players Undrafted National Hockey League players Universiade medalists in ice hockey Russian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Universiade gold medalists for Russia Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade Sportspeople from Chelyabinsk Oblast {{Russia-icehockey-defenceman-stub