height_ft former_teams weight_lb shoots birth_place draft_year team position draft_team league birth_date height_in article_title draft name career_start
6 lokomotiv yaroslavl new york rangers hartford wolfpack milwaukee admirals 210 left yaroslavl , russian sfsr , soviet union 1995 torpedo nizhny novgorod defense new york rangers khl 01 september 1977 0 alexei vasiliev -lrb- ice hockey , born 1977 -rrb-
 110th overall alexei vasiliev 1993
alexei vasiliev -lrb- ice hockey , born 1977 -rrb-

alexei sergeyevich vasiliev -lrb- Васильев , Алексей Сергеевич ; born september 1 , 1977 -rrb- is a russian professional ice hockey defenseman who plays for torpedo nizhny novgorod of the kontinental hockey league .
he played in one national hockey league game for the new york rangers during the 1999 -- 2000 nhl season .
vasiliev also spent 12 seasons playing for lokomotiv yaroslavl in the russian superleague & kontinental hockey league .
his contract was not renewed for the 2011 -- 12 khl season , which saved his life as he was not on the plane that crashed september 7 , 2011 , killing the majority of the team .
