Sergei Fedorov
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Overview
Sergei Victorovich Fedorov (Сергей Викторович Фёдоров; born December 13, 1969 in Pskov, Russia) is a professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League. He currently plays for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, 4th Round, 74th overall from CSKA Moscow. In his pre-NHL days, he played 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. While CSKA Moscow was in Seattle, Washington, in 1989 for the Goodwill Games, Fedorov (who had already been drafted by the Red Wings) 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 1993-1994 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 award in 1996- the Frank J Selke Trophy- after compiling another 100-point season with 39 goals and 107 points. One year later, he became a member of the Red Wings' first Stanley Cup championship teams since 1955, contributing 20 points in 20 playoff games for Detroit. He would go on to win two more Stanley Cups, all with the Red Wings.
In recent years, Fedorov has been criticized for a lack of heart (especially in an injury-riddled 1999-00 season) when he only appeared in 68 games, due to his declining point totals. However, in the new stifled offensive landscape of the NHL, Fedorov has still managed to average close to a point a game, and, except for three seasons, has never scored less than 30 goals. The criticism was not enough to keep Fedorov a Red Wing, as in the 2003 offseason he signed with the Ducks, where he plays today. 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.
Awards
- 1994 Frank J. Selke Trophy, Hart Memorial Trophy, Lester B. Pearson Award
- 1996 Frank J. Selke Trophy
Other facts
His younger brother, Fedor Fedorov is an ice hockey player with Vancouver Canucks of NHL.
External link
- Sergei Fedorov stats (http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php3?pid%5B%5D=1636)de:Sergei Wiktorowitsch Fjodorow