David Nemirovsky

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David Semenovich Nemirovsky (Russian: Дэвид Немировски; born August 1, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward.

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Career and Rise to Fame of David Nemirovsky

Nemirovsky was born in Toronto, Canada, and is of Russian descent. As a youth, he played in the 1990 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Wexford, Toronto.

Nemirovsky was drafted 84th overall by the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers in the 1994 NHL entry draft. Picked from the Ottawa 67's of the Ontario Hockey League, he went on to play parts of four seasons with Florida, playing 91 games for the Panthers and scoring 16 goals and 22 assists for 38 points, he also picked up 42 penalty minutes.

He played for Team Canada in the 1997 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a gold medal.

Nemirovsky then spent three seasons with the St. John's Maple Leafs in the American Hockey League before moving to Europe. After short spells in Sweden and Russia, he spent two seasons in Finland before returning to Russia in 2003. In 2010, he played with CSKA Moscow. Nemirovsky came out of retirement and signed with CSKA Moscow of the KHL in 2013.

Career and Rise to Fame of David Nemirovsky

Following his retirement from an 18-year playing career, Nemirovsky remained in Russia and moved into hockey management in accepting the role of Sports Director at the age of 38 for Admiral Vladivostok of the KHL from 2015 to 2018.

On May 7, 2018, Nemirovsky was announced as head coach for Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the KHL beginning from the 2018–19 season.

Source: adapted from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nemirovsky), text available under CC BY-SA 4.0.