height_ft played_for shoots weight_lb birth_place draft_year image_size career_end position ntl_team_ draft_team height_in birth_date article_title draft ntl_team career_start
5 spartak cska moscow ak bars kazan metallurg magnitogorsk lada togliatti vityaz moscow podolsk khimik voskresensk st. louis blues färjestads bk hc davos left 185 moscow , soviet union 1992 225px 2002 left wing unified team rus st. louis blues 9 25 december 1966 vitali prokhorov
 64th overall urs 1983
vitali prokhorov

vitali vladimirovich prokhorov -lrb- born december 25 , 1966 in moscow , soviet union -rrb- is a retired professional hockey player who played briefly with the st. louis blues in the nhl .
he played left wing and shot left-handed .
prokhorov began his playing career in his native ussr .
he played for spartak moscow for 9 seasons from 1983 until 1992 .
he also played for the ussr in the 1991 canada cup and for russia in the 1992 winter olympics and the 1992 ice hockey world championship .
following the breakup of the soviet union many russian players attempted to come to north america to play in the nhl .
prokhorov was no exception , and he was drafted by the st. louis blues in the 3rd round , 64th overall in the 1992 nhl entry draft .
he along with vitali karamnov and igor korolev created a `` moscow express line '' that was expected to bring a big scoring punch to the blues .
for the 1992 -- 1993 season however things did not go well for prokhorov .
after a slow start , prokhorov suffered a shoulder injury that limited him to only 26 games the whole year .
he did have a bright spot during the season however when he scored a hat trick against the philadelphia flyers on october 31 , 1992 .
after starting the 1993 -- 1994 season with the peoria rivermen prokhorov played 55 games with the blues , scoring 25 points .
the following season prokhorov played 20 games with the rivermen and only 2 games with the blues before being released .
following his stint in the nhl prokhorov played the 1995 -- 1996 season in sweden and 4 more seasons in russia before retiring from hockey in 2001 .
