Maxim Nikolaevich Bets is a Russian professional ice hockey player who last played for Gazprom-OGU Orenburg for the now-defunct Russian Major League. 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 points 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 being 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. 

January 31st, 1974 in Chelyabinsk (Age 50)