Igor Dmitriev (ice hockey)
Igor Dmitriev Jefimowitsch (Russian Игорь Ефимович Дмитриев; * October 19, 1941, † December 21, 1997 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) was a Soviet- Russian ice hockey player and coach.
Career
Dmitriev began his career in 1955 in a junior team in Moscow, before joining Krylia Sovetov Moscow 1958. For this team, he was active without interruption until 1974, including ten years as their captain. 1960 and 1973, he finished with Krylia third place in the championship. In 1974, he won with the so-called Soviet Wings both the Soviet championship and the national cup competition. In a total of 430 league games of Soviet Championships he scored 126 goals.
At the end of his career he received permission to change to the other Western European countries in 1974. The season 1974/75 he spent the EC Klagenfurt AC in the Austrian Hockey League, before he ended his career for good.
His work as a coach, he began Krylia Sovetov Moscow in 1978 as an assistant coach. From 1983 he supervised the team as head coach. In 1987 he was appointed to the staff of the Soviet national ice hockey team, and took this to 1992 participated in a variety of Ice Hockey World Championships, Olympic Games and the Canada Cup. In parallel, he oversaw Krylia Sovetov to 1996 as head coach, finishing with this team in 1989 and 1991 to third place in the championship. In the 1996/97 season he was in charge of the Russian national team as head coach before he underwent a brain tumor operation. In November 1997, he suffered a stroke and died on 21 December 1997 at the military hospital Burdenko. He was buried at the cemetery Wagankowoer in Moscow.
In 2007 he was posthumously honored with induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame. As early as 1974 he was still excellent as an active player as Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored in 1988 as coach of the Sports of the USSR.