| Sergei Fedorov |
Article Index for Sergei |
Website Links For Sergei |
Information AboutSergei Fedorov |
|
Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov ( 1969 in Pskov , USSR ; now Russia ) is a Professional Ice Hockey Forward in the National Hockey League . PLAYING CAREER Sergei was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft , fourth round, 74th overall. In his pre-NHL days, he played for CSKA Moscow on a line with future superstars Pavel Bure and Alexander Mogilny and was drafted in the same year as Bure and a year after Mogilny. In 1990 , while CSKA Moscow was in Seattle for the Goodwill Games , Fedorov quietly slipped out of his hotel room and onto an airplane bound for Detroit. Thus, he became one of many NHL stars to have defected from the Soviet Union to play in the NHL. Arguably, his greatest season was in the 1993-94 NHL Season when he won that year's Hart Memorial Trophy , Frank J. Selke Trophy and Lester B. Pearson Award , and finished second in scoring behind Los Angeles' Wayne Gretzky with 56 goals and 120 points. He would also win another Frank J. Selke Trophy in 1996 , after compiling another 100-point season with 39 goals and 107 points. One year later, he was a member of the Red Wings' first Stanley Cup championship team since 1955 , contributing 20 points in 20 playoff games for Detroit. He would go on to win two more Stanley Cups, both with the Red Wings. He also won a bronze medal with Russia in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and a silver medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. In recent years, Fedorov has been criticized for a lack of heart (especially in an injury-riddled 1999-2000 Season , when he only appeared in sixty-eight games). However, in the stifled offensive landscape of the inter-lockout NHL, Fedorov still managed to average close to a point a game, and, except for three seasons, had never scored less than thirty goals. In the 2003 offseason, he signed with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks , where he played from 2003-2005. He was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets on November 15 , 2005 . It was with the Ducks that Fedorov picked up his 1,000th point, becoming the first Russian-born and fifth European-born player to do so. Fedorov, as a Blue Jacket, also played his 1,000th NHL game on November 30 , 2005 becoming the 13th European-born player to reach 1,000 NHL games and the 205th player overall to do so. He was also married, briefly, to ). His younger brother, Fedor Fedorov is an ice hockey player with the New York Rangers ' AHL team, the Hartford Wolf Pack. AWARDS
CAREER STATISTICS ''Statistics as of 28 Feb 2006'' INTERNATIONAL PLAY Played for the Soviet Union in:
Played for Russia in:
SEE ALSO
EXTERNAL LINKS |
|
|