Anatoli Fedotov
Anatoly Vladimirovich Fedotov (Russian Анатолий Владимирович Федотов; born May 11, 1966 in Saratov, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player who during his active career, among other things, four NHL games for the Winnipeg Jets and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League and was graduated with the Soviet national team at youth level extremely successful.
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Career
Anatoly Fedotov first played from the 1982/83 season in his native city of Saratov for their hockey team crystal Saratov in the subprime Perwaja League and missed this in the first two seasons with the team just under the rise in the Wysschaja league. His debut in the top Soviet league gave the defenders finally during the 1985/86 season in the service of HK Dynamo Moscow. After the Moscow army HK CSKA Moscow dominated the league and had won 1977-1989 thirteen Soviet championships in a row, managed Fedotov with Dynamo end of the season 1989/90 to end this series and with the team the third Soviet title, the first since 1954 to win. After he again won the Soviet Championship title in the following season, in the Dynamo, was inactive, the defender signed in July 1991 a contract with the Winnipeg Jets, valid for the American Hockey League.
For the following season, he returned to HK Dynamo Moscow. Fedotov made his debut during the 1992/ 93 for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League. In his only use at all for the Jets defenders recorded two assists. The remaining time of the season spent the links Sagittarius at their AHL farm team, the Moncton Hawks. Subsequently, the National Hockey League decided that the Winnipeg Jets have foul secured the services Fedotov and therefore had no legal claim to his NHL rights. In the wake of the Russian NHL Entry Draft and was selected available in the tenth round in 1993 in a total of 238 position of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. This represented a first in the history of the National Hockey League that a player had been standing already in a regular NHL game on the ice before he was selected at the NHL Entry Draft.
For Californians, he played two seasons in three-point and impunity NHL games and acted otherwise in the farm team for the San Diego Gulls of the International Hockey League. For the 1995/96 season Fedotov hired the Japanese first division Shin Ōji Seishi Ice Hockey Bu. This left the defender for a game year to Europe and then completed one season in the jersey of Tappara Tampere in the Finnish SM- liiga and the Swedish HV71 Jonkoping with league play in the Elitserien. From 1998 to 2000 the Russian stood again for his Japanese ex- club from Tomakomai on the ice before Fedotov his career trailed off in his home country at Vityaz Podolsk and Molot Perm - Prikamye during the 2000/ 01 season.
Internationally
For the Soviet Union Fedotov took at youth level to the Under-18 European Junior Championships in 1983 and 1984 and the Junior World Championships in 1985 and 1986 in part. Here Fedotov won at all four junior tournaments precious metal; after the two gold medal winning at the U18 European Junior Championships, the defensive player secured his first World Youth Championship tournament in the calendar year 1985, a bronze medal and was allowed to decorate a year later when re- tournament edition by the sovereign tournament victory of the Soviet Union once more with the gold medal. With a goal is scored and five assists in the tournament edition from 1986 Fedotov completed his most successful to date statistically World Youth Championship.
The senior selection of the Soviet Union concluded the defender at the Canada Cup in 1987. The tournament, which was playing as one of the best runs, ended with a brief success of Canadians. For Russia the links Sagittarius stood in the 1997 World Series on the ice. With two goals and assists Fedotov was the top scoring Russian defender, but missed a medal rank.