Career
Klymentiev was named best defenceman at the C Pool of the 1993 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships held in Odense, Denmark. He played junior hockey for the Medicine Hat Tigers in the WHL during the 1993–1994 and 1994–1995 seasons. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres 121st overall in the 1994 National Hockey League Entry Draft and spent 3 seasons with their American Hockey League affiliate the Rochester Americans.
In 1998 he signed with the Philadelphia Flyers and was once more sent to the AHL, suiting up for the Philadelphia Phantoms.
He returned to Russia in 1999 having never played in the National Hockey League. He only ever returned to North America once, where he played seven games for the IHL"s Houston aeronautics
He retired in 2013.
