KRASNOYARSK, June 30 Two-time world champion, winner of the Gagarin Cup hockey player Alexander Semin publicly announced the end of his professional career, a correspondent from the Platinum Arena sports complex reports. In Krasnoyarsk on Thursday, the farewell match of hockey player Alexander Semin is taking place, in which nine world champions take part. «I want to say that I am ending my professional playing career. I dedicated hockey is 20 years old. I played in the NHL, world championships, won the Gagarin Cup with Magnitogorsk. It was really cool,» Semin said before the start of the match. In the farewell match, Alexander Ovechkin, Pavel Datsyuk, Anton Khudobin, Viktor Kozlov, Dmitry Orlov, Andrey Markov, Alexander Svitov, Anton Burdasov, Maxim Afinogenov, Danis Zaripov. Semin, a native of Krasnoyarsk, is 38 years old. Throughout his career in Russia, he played for Traktor (Chelyabinsk), Lada (Tolyatti), Khimik (Mytishchi), Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod), Metallurg (Magnitogorsk) and Vityaz near Moscow, where in his last season 2020/21, he played 40 games and scored 19 points (8 goals + 11 assists). Semin also played 650 games in the NHL regular season, playing for Washington, Carolina and Montreal, in which he scored 517 points (239 goals + 278 assists). As part of the Russian national team, Semin became the world champion in 2008 and 2012.
