Aleksandr Skvortsov (ice hockey)

Alexander Wikentjewitsch Skvortsov (Russian Александр Викентьевич Скворцов; born August 28, 1954 in Gorky ) is a former Russian ice hockey player, who has been working end of his career as a coach.

• 2.1 International

Career

Alexander Skvortsov began his career in 1974 with Torpedo Gorky. Here he played until he in 1989, scoring a total of 244 goals in 580 games in the Soviet league.

Internationally

On August 18, 1976, he was in a game against Sweden for the first time for the Soviet national ice hockey team on the ice. His international career was crowned with the gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics. Already at the Olympic Winter Games in 1980 he had won with his team at the legendary Miracle on Ice the silver medal. In 1981, he was inducted into the "Russian Hockey Hall of Fame".

As a coach

Between 1991 and 1994 Skvortsov was a player coach for the Kalix HF and supervised by the end of his career Hammarby IF, IFK Munkfors and Osterroke.

Between April 2001 and May 2003, he was an assistant coach at Amur Khabarovsk. At the same time he was employed from 2002 at the junior club SDJUSCHOR torpedo as a coach. Between 2004 and December 2005 he was in charge then the first team Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod as head coach. He then continued to 2008 youth coach at SDJUSCHOR.

Between 2009 and 2012 Skvortsov was an assistant coach at HK Sarov in the second division.

Career Stats

Internationally

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )