Anatoly Emelin

Anatoly Anatolevich Emelin (, ); (born October 3, 1964) is a former Russian ice hockey player. He played right winger and scored 229 goals in 596 official games. After 1997-98 season, Emelin finished his player career and became a coach in HC Lada Togliatti. In 2006, he was promoted to head coach of the team.

Playing career Emelin's player career started in 1982 in the team of his home region capital, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, where he was playing until 1990 (with a two-season break in SKA Sverdlovsk). After that, Anatoly accepted the invitation of newly hired Lada coach Gennadiy Tsigurov, and helped to lead his new team to the highest division of Soviet hockey. During the 1992–93 season, Emelin tried himself in Sweden, but decided to return to Lada. Emelin retired in 1998.

Despite the fact that Anatoly's team became Russian Champions twice and won European Cup during his career, he was invited to the national team only once. In 1994, he participated in World Championship, where he scored 2 goals in six games.

Trivia As for now (2006), Anatoly Emelin is the youngest head coach of Russian Hockey Super League. Despite that, he won his first games against former Lada coaches, Gennadiy Tsigurov and Petr Vorobiev, with the same score - 3:1.

Career statistics Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1982–83 Salavat Yulaev Ufa USSR 39 6 1 7 8 — — — — — 1983–84 Salavat Yulaev Ufa USSR-2 58 36 ? ? ? — — — — — 1984–85 Salavat Yulaev Ufa USSR-2 57 29 15 44 74 — — — — — 1985–86 Salavat Yulaev Ufa USSR 22 5 5 10 18 — — — — — 1986–87 Salavat Yulaev Ufa USSR 21 4 1 5 20 — — — — — 1987–88 SKA Sverdlovsk USSR-2 62 23 14 37 64 — — — — — 1988–89 SKA Sverdlovsk USSR-2 7 1 0 1 0 — — — — — 1988–89 Salavat Yulaev Ufa USSR-2 31 11 9 20 16 — — — — — 1989–90 Salavat Yulaev Ufa USSR-2 71 31 34 65 45 — — — — — 1990–91 Lada Togliatti USSR-2 33 13 17 30 20 — — — — — 1991–92 Lada Togliatti CIS 23 8 6 14 16 — — — — — 1992–93 Avesta BK SWE-2 30 17 15 32 40 — — — — — 1993–94 Lada Togliatti IHL 38 19 13 32 44 9 5 5 10 2 1994–95 Lada Togliatti IHL 51 19 16 35 22 12 6 3 9 4 1995–96 Lada Togliatti IHL 52 24 17 41 30 7 1 4 5 20 1996–97 Lada Togliatti RSL 38 15 18 33 24 11 2 2 4 10 1997–98 Lada Togliatti RSL 45 2 6 8 16 — — — — —

International statistics Year Team Event Place GP G A Pts PIM 1994 Russia WC 5th 6 2 0 2 8