| Birth Date: | January 31, 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 1 |
| Weight Lb: | 185 |
| Position: | Left wing |
| Shoots: | Left |
| Played For: | Traktor Chelyabinsk Mighty Ducks of Anaheim HC CSKA Moscow Metallurg Magnitogorsk Severstal Cherepovets Molot-Prikamye Perm Krylya Sovetov Moscow |
| Draft: | 37th overall |
| Draft Year: | 1993 |
| Draft Team: | St. Louis Blues |
| Career Start: | 1991 |
| Career End: | 2010 |
Maxim Nikolaevich Bets (born January 31, 1974) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played three games in the National Hockey League for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
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.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
| 1991–92 | Traktor Chelyabinsk | CIS | 25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1992–93 | Spokane Chiefs | WHL | 54 | 49 | 57 | 106 | 130 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 20 | ||
| 1993–94 | Spokane Chiefs | WHL | 63 | 46 | 70 | 116 | 111 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||
| 1993–94 | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | NHL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 | San Diego Gulls | IHL | — | — | — | — | — | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 1994–95 | San Diego Gulls | IHL | 36 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 31 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Worcester IceCats | AHL | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Baltimore Bandits | AHL | 34 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Raleigh IceCaps | ECHL | 9 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1996–97 | CSKA Moscow | RSL | 16 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997–98 | Traktor Chelyabinsk | RSL | 35 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | Mechel Chelyabinsk | RSL | 41 | 12 | 19 | 31 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1999–00 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | RSL | 36 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | ||
| 2000–01 | Mechel Chelyabinsk | RSL | 32 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2001–02 | Severstal Cherepovets | RSL | 35 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
| 2002–03 | Molot-Prikamye Perm | RSL | 32 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002–03 | Krylya Sovetov Moscow | RSL | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2003–04 | Mechel Chelyabinsk | RUS-2 | 49 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 24 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | ||
| 2004–05 | Mechel Chelyabinsk | RUS-2 | 47 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | ||
| 2005–06 | Mechel Chelyabinsk | RUS-2 | 43 | 13 | 20 | 33 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2005–06 | Traktor Chelyabinsk | RUS-2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | ||
| 2006–07 | Kazakhmys Satpaev | RUS-2 | 44 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2006–07 | Kazakhmys Satpaev | KAZ | 24 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2007–08 | Mechel Chelyabinsk | RUS-2 | 36 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2008–09 | Gazprom-OGU Orenburg | RUS-2 | 55 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| NHL totals | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| RSL totals | 234 | 48 | 63 | 111 | 185 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 6 | ||||