Sergei Fedorov
Sergei Fedorov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Фёдоров; born December 13, 1969 in Pskov, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player who, in the course of his career for the Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League and the Detroit Red Wings, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Columbus Blue Jackets and Washington Capitals played in the National Hockey League. Since his career in late 2012, he became General Manager of HK CSKA Moscow.
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Career
He was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 as 74. Previously, he played with the legendary Russian club HK CSKA Moscow in a row with the subsequent superstars Pavel Bure and Alexander Mogilny and was drawn in the same year as Bure and one year after Mogilny.
As Fyodorov with the HC CSKA Moscow was at the Goodwill Games in Seattle in 1990, he sneaked out of the hotel room and took a plane to Detroit. He was thus one of the many Russian players, who fled from the Hockey system of the Soviet Union to play in the NHL.
Its probably the best time he had in the NHL season 1993 / 94th This year he won the Hart Memorial Trophy, Frank J. Selke Trophy and the Lester B. Pearson Award and finished the season with 56 goals and 120 points in second place in the scoring table behind Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings.
A further prize - the Frank J. Selke Trophy - he received in 1996, after he had played another 100-point season with 39 goals and 107 points. A year later he became a member of the first Stanley Cup champion teams of the Red Wings since 1955 and contributed 20 points in 20 playoff games for Detroit in. In 1998 he repeated his success with the team. In the same year he won the Russian national team silver medal at the Winter Olympics. In 1998 he was honored with induction into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame. For the 1997/98 season Fedorov received 28 million U.S. dollars, the largest salary that each NHL player was paid. However, his base salary was only two million U.S. dollars. However, there were two bonus Klausen, said that he got 14 million that he signed the contract, and another 12 million if he at least reached the conference finals with the team.
In recent years Fyodorov was criticized for his lack of motivation, especially in the interspersed with injuries 1999/2000 season, when he appeared in only 68 games, this was a reason for its decline in total score.
Nevertheless Fyodorov could continue in the new, doggedly attacking environment of the NHL points on average in every game and scored, with the exception of three seasons, never less than 30 goals a season. As a result of the criticism he could not be held, and so he moved to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 2003 with the Red Wings. In autumn 2005, Fedorov moved to five games with the Mighty Ducks to Columbus Blue Jackets. During the 2007/ 08 season he was finally obliged by the Washington Capitals.
The Mighty Ducks he reached his thousandth point, and thus was the first Russian and five Europeans, to whom this ever succeeded.
Fedorov was one of the most talented offense and defense hockey players of his active time. Both wore with the Red Wings, as well as in the Mighty Ducks Fyodorov an "A" as an assistant captain on the chest.
Sergei Fedorov came frequently in the headlines when he and the twelve years his junior tennis player Anna Kournikova were a couple. According Fjodorows they married in 2001 even, could be only a few time later divorced again, however.
With the expiry of his contract in Washington by the end of the 2008/ 09 also ended his 18- year career in the NHL. On 25 June 2009 Fedorov signed a two year contract with the Russian club HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk, for which he in the Kontinental Hockey League, before he ended his career until 2012. He then returned to his hometown club CSKA Moscow and its became general manager.
For CSKA Moscow Fyodorov took part in the 2013 Spengler Cup. During the tournament, he completed two games and scored one goal before the Russians departed prematurely. Originally a comeback had also been planned in the Kontinental Hockey League; Fyodorov had trained for months for this. Ultimately, however, this did not materialize.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Family
His younger brother, Fyodor Fyodorov, was selected by the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL Entry Draft in 2001 and played a total of 18 games in the NHL for the Canucks and New York Rangers.
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the USSR at:
- U20 World Junior Championships 1987
- U20 World Junior Championships 1988
- U20 World Junior Championships 1989
- World Cup 1989
- World Cup 1990
- Canada Cup 1991
Represented Russia at:
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- 1998 Winter Olympics
- 2002 Winter Olympics
- World Championship 2008
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2010
( 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 )