Denis Aleksandrovich Yachmenev (; born 6 April 1984) is a Russian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Rubin Tyumen of the Supreme Hockey League (VHL). He is the younger brother of former Los Angeles Kings and Nashville Predators forward Vitali Yachmenev.
Career Yachmenev began playing junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League with the North Bay Centennials, who drafted him in the 1st Round (26th overall) of the 2001 CHL Import Draft. He was then drafted 200th overall by the Florida Panthers in the 2002 NHL entry draft. He spent one more season in the OHL for the Saginaw Spirit before returning to Russia for the 2003–04 to join Amur Khabarovsk of the Russian Superleague.
The team were relegated from the Superleague that season but Yachmenev remained with the team in the second-tier Vysshaya Liga for the next two seasons. He then returned to the Superleague in 2006 with Sibir Novosibirsk for one season before moving to Traktor Chelyabinsk the following season. He played eight games for Traktor in the newly created Kontinental Hockey League in the 2008–09 KHL seasonProfile at KHL.ru before spending the remainder of the season with their secondary team.
Career statistics Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 2000–01 Traktor–2 Chelyabinsk RUS.3 7 1 1 2 0 — — — — —2001–02North Bay CentennialsOHL6517122932520202002–03Saginaw SpiritOHL6817284569 — — — — —2003–04Amur KhabarovskRSL250114 — — — — — 2003–04 Amur–2 Khabarovsk RUS.3 20 15 8 23 18 — — — — —2004–05Amur KhabarovskRUS.2427142128133148 2004–05 Amur–2 Khabarovsk RUS.3 1 1 0 1 0 — — — — —2005–06Amur KhabarovskRUS.2469142343 11 2 3 5 6 2005–06 Amur–2 Khabarovsk RUS.3 2 1 2 3 0 — — — — —2006–07Sibir NovosibirskRSL16000810000 2006–07 Sibir–2 Novosibirsk RUS.3 6 0 3 3 8 — — — — —2007–08Traktor ChelyabinskRSL4027922200002008–09Traktor ChelyabinskKHL80002 — — — — — 2008–09 Traktor–2 Chelyabinsk RUS.3 49 31 21 52 58 — — — — — 2009–10 Gazovik Tyumen RUS.2 40 11 5 16 12 7 0 4 4 6 2010–11 Rubin Tyumen VHL 55 13 12 25 30 15 3 3 6 8 2011–12 Rubin Tyumen VHL 51 8 14 22 20 20 6 4 10 6 2012–13 Rubin Tyumen VHL 48 8 7 15 14 12 0 0 0 14 2013–14 Rubin Tyumen VHL 44 10 9 19 16 19 4 8 12 12 2014–15 Rubin Tyumen VHL 52 7 7 14 51 9 1 2 3 4 2015–16 Rubin Tyumen VHL 37 4 10 14 10 — — — — — 2016–17 Rubin Tyumen VHL 47 13 19 32 16 17 5 4 9 22 2017–18 Tsen Tou Jilin City VHL 52 15 14 29 25 4 1 0 1 2 2018–19 Rubin Tyumen VHL 37 9 16 25 55 20 2 7 9 20 2019–20 Rubin Tyumen VHL 52 12 18 30 35 10 3 5 8 6 2020–21 Rubin Tyumen VHL 48 6 11 17 18 16 2 2 4 20 RUS.2 totals 128 27 33 60 83 31 5 8 13 20 RSL totals 81 2 8 10 34 3 0 0 0 0 VHL totals 523 105 137 242 290 142 27 35 62 114
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