Maxim Chudinov is a famous Russian hockey player who plays for the SKA team from St. Petersburg. He is the world champion in the junior and national team of his country.
Maxim Chudinov was born in 1990 in the city of Cherepovets, which is located in the Vologda region. Hockey started at the age of 7 under the leadership of Alexander Mikolenko. Even at a very young age he showed himself as a disciplined and very responsible player.
Professional club career
The first professional team for Chudinov was the native Cherepovets Severstal, playing in the Super League. The debut came at the end of the 2006/2007 season. Therefore, the 16-year-old defender managed to take part in only two fights. In the next two seasons, Maxim Chudinov occasionally entered the ice arena as part of his team, playing for 2 years in just 44 fights. Everything changed in 2009. The defender is not only securely entrenched in the main composition of Severstal, but also has become an indispensable player for his team. Maxim finished the 2009/10 season with excellent results: in 47 matches he scored 6 goals and gave 8 assists.
In 2010, Chudinov got into the NHL draft, where he was chosen by the AHL club “Boston Bruins”. But the Russian defender never got overseas, signing instead a new contract with the Cherepovets team. The 2010/11 season turned out to be very successful for Chudinov and his team. Maxim played 52 matches of the regular season, in which he scored 8 goals against the opponents and played the role of an assistant 15 times. “Severstal” was able to get into a series of playoffs, and Chudinov becomes the most useful player in the defense plan. But, as it turned out, this was not the limit of the defender's performance. The following season, Maxim Chudinov updates his performance record, gaining 35 (9 + 26) points in 52 matches. This performance defender helps Severstal to break into the playoff series again, and he will become a member of All KHL stars.
Since 2012, Maxim Chudinov is a hockey player in St. Petersburg SKA. In the new club, the defender is actively involved in the fight in the first team. In the 2012/13 season, Chudinov played in 47 matches and scored 10 (2 + 8) points. The next KHL championship, Maxim began as a player in the main composition of SKA. But the most successful career in the quarterback was the 2014/15 season. The St. Petersburg club not only made it to the playoffs, but also managed to defeat AK Bars in the final series and win the Gagarin Cup. This season, Maxim Chudinov finished with 17 (5 + 12) points in the regular season and 9 (1 + 8) in the playoff series.
National team games
Maxim Chudinov began to represent Russia at international competitions at the age of 17. As part of the junior team, he became the world champion in 2007 and the silver medalist in 2008. As a player in the Russian youth team, he twice became the bronze medalist of world championships. Since 2011, Chudinov began to be actively involved in games for the national team. In 2014, he became a world champion in the Russian team. At this tournament, Maxim Chudinov spent 10 matches and managed to distinguish himself with one assists. In addition to this triumph, the defender replenished his collection of silver awards with the 2015 World Cup and a bronze award from the world championship in 2016.
Maxim Chudinov: personal life of an athlete
In 2016, the 26-year-old SKA player married in St. Petersburg a local girl Catherine. The newlyweds decided not to make this a secret. They willingly shared photos from the wedding ceremony on social networks.