Vyacheslav Bykov
Arkadyevitch Vyacheslav " Slava " Bykov (Russian Вячеслав Аркадьевич Быков, scientific transliteration Vâčeslav Arkad'evič Bykov, born July 24, 1960 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and 2006-2011 coach of the Russian national ice hockey team. His son Andrei is also a professional hockey player.
Career as a player
His career began in 1980 when Soviet first division Traktor Chelyabinsk. After two seasons, he was discovered for the 1982/83 season for CSKA Moscow and soon also appointed to the Soviet national ice hockey team. NHL Entry Draft 1989, he was selected by the Quebec Nordiques in the 9th round to 169 place. But he never played in the National Hockey League. In 1990 he joined from CSKA in the Swiss National League A to Fribourg- Gottéron and remained there seven years. His last two years as a hockey player, he spent the HC Lausanne in the Swiss National League B. With CSKA Moscow he was seven -time champions and European champions.
With the " Sbornaja " of the Soviet national team, he won four times, 1983, 1986, 1989 and 1990, the Hockey World Cup and was six times European champions. He also won the gold medal with the team at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. In 1983 he was awarded the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union he continued to play for the newly formed Russian national ice hockey team or national of the CIS. With it, he won his second Olympic gold medal in the IIHF World Championships in Germany in 1993 his fifth world title at the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville.
Career as a coach
After he finished his playing career, he was an assistant coach at Lausanne Hockey Club and Fribourg- Gottéron. In 2004 he went back to Russia and trained there to CSKA Moscow, the most successful club of the former Soviet Union. Under his leadership, the athletic Hockey Department of the Army Sports clubs returned to the national peak in 2008 CSKA finished the qualification phase of the Russian Super League in third place. End of the season 2008/ 09 the left Bykov CSKA Moscow and moved together with his assistant Igor Sacharkin to league rivals Salavat Yulaev Ufa
In August 2006, he accepted an invitation from the President of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation and former teammate Vladislav Tretiak and the Minister of Sport Vyacheslav Fetisov to coach the Russian national team at. In the home World Cup in 2007, the Russians reached under his leadership the bronze medal.
A year later, at the World Championships in Canada, Russia ended the 15 years of drought without a World Champion and Olympic victory by a final victory against the hosts. 2009 managed Bykov and his team again after a playoff victory against Canada to defend the title. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, the Russians lost with 3:7 in the quarter-final against the hosts from Canada. A few months later Bykov lost with the Sbornaja also the final of the 2010 World Cup in Germany with 1:2 against the Czechs and missed the hat-trick. The Russian Federation extended in the summer of 2010, the contract with Bykov up to the Olympic Games 2014. However, he was released after the unsatisfactory World Cup 2011 in Slovakia. Salavat Yulaev Ufa addition did not renew the expiring contract.