Talk:Alexander Semin

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Personal life

I'm moving this here since it seems like it might be true but isn't written well and is unsourced. If anyone can find some good info on Semin's off-ice life, feel free to work on it. —Muéro^(talk/c) 06:26, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Semin resides in the Bellevue Forest neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. He resides with his best friend, Konstantine and spends his downtime with his girlfriend, Anya. Semin enjoys traveling in the off-season with his teammate and good friend, Alexander Ovechkin. The duo has vacationed together in Turkey and Egypt in the last few years.

Nickname

Should his nickname, "Sasha" be included here? I saw that Evgeni Malkin's page has his nickname on it, so I was wondering... Colorofmagic (talk) 18:41, 28 January 2011 (UTC)Colorofmagic[reply]

Do you have reliable sources? ccwaters (talk) 18:56, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alex Ovechkin has twice today referred to "Sasha Semin" on Twitter. I'm not sure that qualifies as a reliable source, but it's something. http://twitter.com/#!/ovi8/status/43526903843405824 http://twitter.com/#!/ovi8/status/43368973521272832 Aoystreck (talk) 04:34, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, Sasha is kind of a short variation of Alexander or Alexandar (in Slavic speaking world). Also used in the Sasha Vujačić article.Ratipok (talk) 18:56, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Should "Alexander Semin" be moved to "Alexander Syomin"?

Apparently his pronanuciation and spelling is SYOMIN and not SEMIN, which looks like its just a mistake from the NHL. As we can see on his jersey during the 2012 IIHF World Championship and on the official website of the IIHF (including on the official TV broadcasts), he is known as Syomin. [1] & [2].Ratipok (talk) 18:54, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I vote no because the IIHF spelling is pursuant to a new policy they've enacted as to transliteration of Russian names. The "Syomin" spelling is therefore required in IIHF events. He's used the spelling "Semin" consistently throughout his career otherwise, including in Olympic and other IIHF play, so it's probably reasonable to assume that's the spelling he prefers (and it's HIS name, after all). Sergei Fedorov would be another player in a similar situation ("Fyodorov" would be a more literal transliteration). Compare to goaltender Semyon Varlamov, whose name has been subject to all sorts of translation vagaries. During the NHL draft he was listed under the unfortunate spelling "Semen Varlamov"; perhaps realizing the problem with that spelling of his first name, the Capitals then listed him as "Simeon," but Varlamov objected to that because it doesn't reflect the proper pronunciation and thus he changed it to "Semyon" as soon as league rules permitted him to do so (i.e., during the offseason). Most Americans still mispronounce it because they don't recognize it as being two syllables. I believe the Varlamov situation was what prompted the IIHF to come up with the new set of rules. Anyway, Semin surely could have requested that the NHL and the Capitals use the spelling "Syomin" if he preferred, but he's never done so, and insofar as the primary focus of this article is on him as an NHL player, I submit that it's the best practice to use the spelling he uses in his NHL career (especially as that is the spelling the average reader looking for information would be likely to use). If he goes back to the KHL and starts using the "Syomin" spelling on a regular basis outside of IIHF events, my opinion would be different. 1995hoo (talk) 20:22, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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