Maxim Bets

{{Short description|Russian ice hockey player (born 1974)}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image =

| caption =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|1|31|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lb = 185

| position = Left wing

| shoots = Left

| team =

| played_for = Traktor Chelyabinsk
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
HC CSKA Moscow
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Severstal Cherepovets
Molot-Prikamye Perm
Krylya Sovetov Moscow

| league =

| draft = 37th overall

| draft_year = 1993

| draft_team = St. Louis Blues

| career_start = 1991

| career_end = 2010

}}

Maxim Bets ({{langx|ru|Максим Николаевич Бец}};) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played three games in the National Hockey League for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

Career

Bets began his career in Russia with Traktor Chelyabinsk before moving to North America in the junior Western Hockey League where he spent two highly productive seasons with the Spokane Chiefs, scoring 49 goals and 57 assists for 106 points in 1992–93 and 46 goals and 70 assists for 116 points in 1993–94, finishing second for the team between Valeri Bure and Ryan Duthie respectively.

Bets was drafted 37th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, but while with the Chiefs, his rights were traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for fellow Russian Alexei Kasatonov and played three games for the Mighty Ducks during the 1993–94 NHL season but failed to register a point. It turned out to be Bets' only NHL experience as he spent the rest of his time in North America with spells with the San Diego Gulls of the IHL, the Worcester IceCats and the Baltimore Bandits of the AHL and the Raleigh IceCaps of the ECHL.

Bets returned to Russia in 1996 in the Russian Superleague with one season spells with HC CSKA Moscow, Traktor Chelyabinsk, Mechel Chelyabinsk and Metallurg Magnitogorsk. He rejoined Mechel Chelyabinsk for another season before spending another season playing for Severstal Cherepovets and then split the 2002–03 season with Molot-Prikamye Perm and Krylya Sovetov Moscow.

In 2003, he returned to Mechel Chelyabinsk a third time who were now playing in the Vysshaya Liga and spent three seasons with the team joining Traktor Chelyabinsk for a third spell at the conclusion of the 2005–06 season. He spent a season with Kazakhmis Satpaev before joining Mechel Chelyabinsk for a fourth time. In 2008, Bets signed with Gazprom-OGU Orenburg.

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! colspan="5"|Regular season

! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! colspan="5"|Playoffs

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! Season

! Team

! League

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

1991–92

| Traktor Chelyabinsk

| CIS

| 25

1128

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1992–93

| Spokane Chiefs

| WHL

| 54

4957106130

| 9

561120
1993–94

| Spokane Chiefs

| WHL

| 63

4670116111

| 3

11112
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1993–94

| Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

| NHL

| 3

0000

| —

1993–94

| San Diego Gulls

| IHL

| —

| 9

0220
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1994–95

| San Diego Gulls

| IHL

| 36

26831

| —

1994–95

| Worcester IceCats

| AHL

| 9

1126

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1995–96

| Baltimore Bandits

| AHL

| 34

551018

| —

1995–96

| Raleigh IceCaps

| ECHL

| 9

0446

| 4

0000
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1996–97

| CSKA Moscow

| RSL

| 16

32512

| —

1997–98

| Traktor Chelyabinsk

| RSL

| 35

1292116

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1998–99

| Mechel Chelyabinsk

| RSL

| 41

12193157

| 3

0112
1999–00

| Metallurg Magnitogorsk

| RSL

| 36

35826

| 12

42612
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2000–01

| Mechel Chelyabinsk

| RSL

| 32

9122136

| 2

0000
2001–02

| Severstal Cherepovets

| RSL

| 35

7111818

| 4

2132
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2002–03

| Molot-Prikamye Perm

| RSL

| 32

9122136

| —

2002–03

| Krylya Sovetov Moscow

| RSL

| 9

0008

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2003–04

| Mechel Chelyabinsk

| RUS-2

| 49

8253324

| 12

1458
2004–05

| Mechel Chelyabinsk

| RUS-2

| 47

9142320

| 8

2026
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2005–06

| Mechel Chelyabinsk

| RUS-2

| 43

13203332

| —

2005–06

| Traktor Chelyabinsk

| RUS-2

| 7

1456

| 11

1348
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2006–07

| Kazakhmys Satpaev

| RUS-2

| 44

9112054

| —

2006–07

| Kazakhmys Satpaev

| KAZ

| 24

1081810

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2007–08

| Mechel Chelyabinsk

| RUS-2

| 36

671328

| —

2008–09

| Gazprom-OGU Orenburg

| RUS-2

| 55

8182636

| —

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3"| NHL totals

! 3 !! 0 !! 0 !! 0 !! 0

! — !! — !! — !! — !! —

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! colspan="3"| RSL totals

! 234 !! 48 !! 63 !! 111 !! 185

! 21 !! 6 !! 4 !! 10 !! 6

=International=

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! Year

! Team

! Event

! rowspan="102" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

1994

| Russia

| WJC

| 7

0008
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! colspan="4"| Junior totals

! 7 !! 0 !! 0 !! 0 !! 8