Oleg Petrov
Oleg Viktorovich Petrov (Russian Олег Викторович Петров; born April 18, 1971 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player. Between 1992 and 2003, he completed 402 games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Nashville Predators, in which he scored 73 goals and 121 assists. Then he stood for a long while EV train from the National League A under contract, rather he trailed off his career with Ak Bars Kazan Atlant Mytischtschi and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League. Since end of his career in 2013 he joined the coaching staff of the locomotive.
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Career
Oleg Petrov began his career in the Russian series champion HK CSKA Moscow, with whom he won the 1991 Spengler Cup. In the same year he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1991 at 127 instead of the Montreal Canadiens and changed in 1992 for the first time in the NHL. In 1993 he won with the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley Cup, although he was only used in a playoff game. In the following years he always traveled between the farm team of the Canadiens, the Fredericton Canadiens of the AHL and the NHL squad back and forth, without definitively to establish themselves in the NHL. Therefore, he decided in 1996 to move to Europe - first in the Italian Serie A, later in the NLA for HC Ambri -Piotta, for whom he played three seasons and developed into a top scorer of the NLA (eg 1997/98 season: 40 games, 30 goals and 63 assists and even 11 goals and 11 assists in 20 playoff games ).
After participating in the 1998 World Cup Petrov decided to return to the NHL. He played together with the captain of the Canadiens, Saku Koivu in a row and improved its yield point continuously. In the 2000 /01 season he set personal bests with 17 goals and 30 assists and was able to achieve the following season still 7 more goals. After a shaky start in the season 2002 /03 he was then transferred to the Nashville Predators.
In the 2003/2004 season Petrov returned to Switzerland and signed with HC Servette Genève. A year later, the EV train for three years took him under contract and Petrov became with 29 hits to the best scorers in the NLA main round. In October 2007 he was engaged by Ak Bars Kazan, which thus reacted to the bad start to the season and pay to the ECC a transfer fee of 300,000 francs. According to Jukka Hentunen he was thus the second player, who joined in the 2007/ 08 season from the NLA to Kazan. From 2009 to 2011 Petrov played for Atlant Mytischtschi. Subsequently, he was without a club before he his former club Ak Bars Kazan joined in November 2011.
Between August 2012 and January 2013 he stood at HK Spartak Moscow under contract before he was traded from Spartak against Daniil Jerdakow of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.
Internationally
1989 represented Petrov for the first time his home country in an international tournament, the European Junior Championships in 1989. Two years later he was a member of the U20 national team that won the silver medal at the 1991 Junior World Championships. In the 1998 and 1999 World Cup, he finished with the Russian national team in fifth place in 2000 reached the Sbornaja with Petrov in the squad only eleventh place.
He also took part in the World Cup of Hockey in 2004, but was not used in any game.
Awards and achievements
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 )