Sergei Klimentiev

Infobox Ice Hockey Player
team = Avangard Omsk
former_teams = Aq Bars Kazan
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
HC MVD Moscow Oblast
league = RSL
position = Defence
shoots = Left
height_ft = 6
height_in = 1
weight_lb = 192
nationality = UKR
birth_date = Birth date and age|1975|4|5|mf=y
birth_place = Kiev, USSR
draft = 121st overall
draft_year = 1994
draft_team = Buffalo Sabres
career_start = 1994

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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