Vladimir Krutov
Vladimir Jewgenjewitsch Krutov (Russian: Владимир Евгеньевич Крутов; born June 1, 1960 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, † June 6, 2012 ) was a Russian ice hockey player and coach, especially during his active career as a player great success with the Army Sports Club CSKA Moscow as well as the national team of the USSR celebrated. He was the left winger to the KLM series to Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov.
- 3.1 National Competitions
- 3.2 International Competitions
- 3.3 Other
Career
Vladimir Krutov began his career in the Soviet league in 1977. Nearly he was appointed to the Soviet national team immediately, for he denied a European Junior Championships, two World Junior Championships, seven World Ice Hockey Championships, three Canada Cups and three Olympic Winter Games. He won a gold medal at the Junior World Championship in 1979 and was honored at the 1979 and 1980 tournaments as top scorer. With the Soviet national team, he won at the World Ice Hockey Championships and the 1981 Canada Cup in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986 and 1989. In addition, he was elected in 1983, 1985 and 1987 in the All- Star team. At the Olympic Winter Games, he also won with the Soviet national team twice a gold medal (1984 and 1988) and one silver medal (1980).
Together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, he formed the legendary KLM series ( also Green Line ), which is regarded as the best and most talented forward line who ever played hockey. In 1981 he was awarded the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. 1987 Krutov was honored by the daily newspaper Izvestia with the golden bat as the best European player of the year.
He was selected by the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL Entry Draft in 1986 in the 11th round at 238th place. After this time in the Soviet Hockey in 1989 he went to the Vancouver Canucks. In the 1989/90 season - his only in the National Hockey League - he reached eleven goals and 23 assists in 61 games. After this weak season, the team of Krutov separated. Because of this departure it came to judicial demands of his hand on the club. He called for $ 2.1 million and even before the judgment was spoken Krutov was designated as highly paid flop of NHL history.
1990 to 1992 he played in Switzerland for the Zurich SC and 1992-1995 in Sweden Östersund IK. His career ended in 1995/96 season at Brunflo IK as player-coach. Overall, he was never able to regain his form 1980s more.
In 1996, he oversaw the professional team of HK CSKA Moscow as an assistant coach before he was promoted to head coach prior to the 2000/ 01 season. In 2001 he entered - after a dizzy spell - from his post as coach of CSKA back. From 2002 he was director of the State Sports College, which hosts the annual competition of the Russian sports Spartakiade. He also played in a team of old men's team Legend Chokkeja (Russian Легенд хоккея ) with other former stars of the Sbornaja.
Krutov was married, and his son Alexei Krutov is also a professional hockey player. Krutov died on June 6, 2012 in a Moscow hospital from internal bleeding due to cirrhosis.
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 )
Awards and achievements
National Competitions
International Competitions
- Gold medal at the European Championships
- Gold medal at the European Championships
- Gold medal at the European Championships
- Gold medal at the European Championships
- Gold medal at the European Championships
- Gold medal at the European Championships
- Gold medal at the European Championships