Alexander Andrijevski is a former Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

ian professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player who played one game in the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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 for the Chicago Blackhawks

Chicago Blackhawks

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Andrijevski spent the first six seasons of his career with his hometown team Dinamo Minsk

HC Dinamo Minsk

Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season....

 between 1984 and 1990. In 1991 he moved to Dynamo Moscow

HC Dynamo Moscow

HC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They were members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League...

. 1991 was also the year Andrijevski was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks, selected 220th overall in the 10th round. After one more season in Moscow

Moscow

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, Andrijevski moved to North America

North America

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, signing with the Blackhawks. For the 1992-93 season he was assigned to the Indianapolis Ice

Indianapolis Ice

The Indianapolis Ice is the name of a former hockey team in Indianapolis, Indiana, that played in the International Hockey League from 1988–99 and in the Central Hockey League from 1999–2004. Their original home arena was the Indiana State Fairgrounds Pepsi Coliseum at the Indiana State Fairgrounds...

 of the International Hockey League before being called up by the Blackhawks for his only NHL game. The next season, he played just four games for Indianapolis before moving to the Kalamazoo Wings

Kalamazoo Wings

The Kalamazoo Wings, nicknamed the K-Wings, are a mid-level professional ice hockey team in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A member of the ECHL's Eastern Conference, North Division, they play in the 5,113-seat Wings Stadium....

 in the same league. It would be his final year in North America as he moved to the SM-liiga

SM-liiga

The SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice...

 in Finland

Finland

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, joining HPK

HPK

HPK is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Hämeenlinna, Finland at the Hämeenlinnan jäähalli. HPK was established in 1929. The full name of the club is HPK-Edustusjääkiekko Ry and the team is sometimes promoted as the "Hockey Playing Knights", with the logo representing a knight...

 where he spent four seasons. He spent the last four seasons of the career in Germany

Germany

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 as well as a two game spell in Italy

Italy

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Career statistics

				Regular Season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...	A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...	Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...	PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1984-85	Dinamo Minsk HC Dinamo Minsk Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season....	Rus-1		3	0	0	0	0
1985-86	Dinamo Minsk	Rus-1		11	3	4	7	4
1986-87	Dinamo Minsk	Rus-1		38	3	5	8	39
1987-88	Dinamo Minsk	Rus-1		50	2	5	7	20
1988-89	Dinamo Minsk	SL		7	1	1	2	2
1989-90	Dinamo Minsk	SL		47	16	12	28	32
1990-91	Dynamo Moscow HC Dynamo Moscow HC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They were members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League...	SL		44	9	8	17	28
1991-92	Dynamo Moscow	SL		31	9	8	17	14
1992-93	Indianapolis Ice Indianapolis Ice The Indianapolis Ice is the name of a former hockey team in Indianapolis, Indiana, that played in the International Hockey League from 1988–99 and in the Central Hockey League from 1999–2004. Their original home arena was the Indiana State Fairgrounds Pepsi Coliseum at the Indiana State Fairgrounds...	IHL		66	26	25	51	59		4	2	3	5	10
1992-93	Chicago Blackhawks Chicago Blackhawks The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...	NHL National Hockey League The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...		1	0	0	0	0
1993-94	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		4	0	1	1	2
1993-94	Kalamazoo Wings Kalamazoo Wings The Kalamazoo Wings, nicknamed the K-Wings, are a mid-level professional ice hockey team in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A member of the ECHL's Eastern Conference, North Division, they play in the 5,113-seat Wings Stadium....	IHL		57	6	22	28	58		1	0	0	0	2
1994-95	HPK HPK HPK is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Hämeenlinna, Finland at the Hämeenlinnan jäähalli. HPK was established in 1929. The full name of the club is HPK-Edustusjääkiekko Ry and the team is sometimes promoted as the "Hockey Playing Knights", with the logo representing a knight...	SM-l SM-liiga The SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice...		17	8	9	17	18
1995-96	HPK	SM-l		43	18	15	33	75		9	7	1	8	4
1996-97	HPK	SM-l		42	17	28	45	26		10	2	4	6	2
1997-98	HPK	SM-l		25	7	9	16	22
1998-99	Bolzano Hockey Club Bolzano-Bozen The HC Interspar Bolzano-Bozen Foxes is an Italian ice hockey team located in the city of Bolzano-Bozen, South Tyrol.-History:It is the most successful team in the history of the Italian ice hockey league, with 18 championships.-Roster 2010-11:...	ITA Serie A (hockey) Serie A is the name of the top tier of professional ice hockey in Italy, which first began play in 1924. They are conducted under the authority of the Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio...		2	0	0	0	4
1998-99	Krefeld Penguins	DEL		13	5	4	9	8
1999-00	Revier Lions	DEL		31	13	18	31	40
1999-00	Neuwied EHC	2.GBun		17	10	10	20	12
2000-01	Revier Lions	DEL		56	11	13	24	28		3	0	0	0	0
2002-03	Freiburg EHC	2.GBun		15	9	4	13	4		11	2	1	3	31

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