Career
His last name is sometimes transliterated as Sushinski or Sushinskiy. A skillful right winger, Maxim Sushinsky was drafted 132nd overall in the 2000 National Hockey League Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild and played 30 games with the Wild before leaving the team for personal and family reasons. He has spent the majority of his career in playing in Russia, spending time with Avangard Omsk, The Human Context Dynamo Moscow, and his current team SKA Saint St. Petersburg in the Kontinental Hockey League.
He represented the Russian Federation in the 2006 Winter Olympics, where he had five points in eight games played.
Throughout the event the nameplate on the back of his jersey had his name spelled "Sushinksky".