Igor Boldin

Igor Petrovich Boldin (Russian Игорь Петрович Болдин; born February 2, 1964 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and coach. He won the Olympic hockey tournament with the team in the CIS in 1992.

Career

Boldin began 1981/82 his career as a player at Spartak Moscow, the club he remained faithful to the collapse of the USSR. Even as a junior player, he was appointed immediately after winning the U-20 World Championship in 1983 in the men's selection of the USSR, in the almost nine years he came, however, until the end of the Soviet Union only 15 missions, in particular, it was the collapse of the Soviet Union not in the squad for world Championships yet for Olympic games. He was then appointed both for the Olympic team in the CIS as well as for World Cup selection of Russia in 1992, during the World Cup ended unsuccessfully, the crew of the CIS succeeded in winning the Olympic hockey tournament. In the same year he was awarded the Honored Master of Sports.

NHL Entry Draft 1992 St. Louis Blues of the NHL took him in the eighth round as 180, after ending his contract with Spartak, but shortly before a planned trip for the purpose of the contract he suffered in a car accident in Moscow serious injury that prevented him from playing for more than a year on hockey.

From 1993 to 1997 Boldin played for various Finnish and Swedish clubs before he went in the summer of 1997 back to Spartak, for whom he played until 2001 in the first and second team before the 2001/ 02 end his career at THK Tver in the Wysschaja League allowed.

Following Boldin was coach. He is currently the third coach of HK Spartak Moscow.