Valentin Kuzin
Valentin Jegorowitsch cousin (Russian Валентин Егорович Кузин; born September 23, 1926 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, † August 13, 1994 in Moscow) was a Russian ice hockey and soccer players.
Career
Valentin cousin played as a child and teenager, especially football and bandy and developed mainly by the latter sports a high speed ice skating. In 1948 he made his debut for Dynamo Novosibirsk in the Russian Regional Championship, the third - highest Soviet Hockey League, and went with his club in the second division, the Klass B, on. Until 1950, he played for Novosibirsk, before the football and bandy coach, Mikhail Jakuschin, Dynamo Moscow cousin was attentive and brought him to Moscow. There he first played as a midfielder football, among others, along with Lev Yashin, and graduated in 1950 a game in the highest soccer league in the USSR. After that convinced him of the Hockey coach of the club, Arkady Chernyshev, to focus on hockey.
In the following eleven seasons cousin completed a total of 255 appearances for Dynamo Moscow, where reach 156 goals him. He was also in 1954 with Soviet champion Dynamo and 1951, 1959 and 1960 runner-up. He also reached with Dynamo twice, in 1955 and 1956, the final of the USSR Cup.
Internationally
In 1953, cousin part in the Winter Universiade, where he received his first international game and won the gold medal.
1954 cousin was appointed to the newly established Soviet national team and graduated on January 29, 1954 his first international match against Finland. Two months later, he won the Sbornaja the gold medal at the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1954 and was subsequently awarded the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
A year later, the national team won the silver medal with cousin. His international career was crowned with the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 1956, where he scored the 2-0 in the final match against Canada.
For the national team, he scored a total of 27 goals in 50 internationals. On December 29, 1956 he played his last international match.
Statistics
( 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 )