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FEDOROV BACKGROUND:

Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov (Russian: ?????? ?????????? ???????; born December 13, 1969) is a Russian professional ice hockey forward and occasional defenceman.[1] He currently serves as the captain of the Metallurg Magnitogorsksquad in the Kontinental Hockey League.

Fedorov gained fame in the NHL for his unique style of play with the Detroit Red Wings, where he won 3 Stanley Cups before tenures with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Columbus Blue Jackets, and lastly the Washington Capitals, playing in over 1,200 NHL contests. On October 25, 2008, Fedorov passed Alexander Mogilny to
set a record for most goals by a Russian-born NHL player, scoring his
473rd goal. He was also the first European-trained player to win the Hart Memorial Trophy in1993–94 NHL season .

Fedorov was considered one of the best players in the world in the 1990s leading into early 2000s.[2] He recently played for Team Russia in the 2010 Winter Olympics. He is currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was made captain of the team in early September 2011[3].

In his pre-NHL days, he played for CSKA Moscow on the famous line with future NHL superstars Pavel Bure and Alexander Mogilny, and was drafted a year after Mogilny (the same year as Bure). Fedorov was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, fourth round, 74th overall. 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.[4] Thus, he became one of many NHL stars to have defected from the Soviet Union to play in the NHL.

Fedorov was
described as “three great players in one”. In his extraordinary career,
he “once held claim to the title of top player on the planet”[5]. Former Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman said his teammate was the “best skater I’ve ever seen.”[6] During the 1993–94 NHL season, Fedorov’s outstanding play earned him the Hart Memorial Trophy (being the first European-trained player to do so), the Frank J. Selke Trophy, and the Lester B. Pearson Award. He finished second in scoring behind Los Angeles’ Wayne Gretzky with 56 goals and 120 points.

Sergei was also introduced to Gretzky by Paul Coffey during the 1994 NHL All Star Game, which led to him staying over at his L.A home for 2 weeks that year[7].

In the
lockout-shortened 1994–95 NHL season, Fedorov finished second on the
team in points with 50 (20 goals, 30 assists) in 42 games. That season,
in a game against the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday, February 12, Fedorov
scored all 4 of Detroit’s goals in a 4-4 tie. Although the Red Wings
lost the Stanley Cup Finals that year to the New Jersey Devils, Fedorov led the playoffs in all scoring with 24 points (7 goals, 17 assists).

Fedorov won another Frank J. Selke Trophy in 1996, after compiling 100-point season with 39 goals and 107 points in 78 games played. The next season, he played for Russia in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, and was a member of the Red Wings’ first Stanley Cup championship team since 1955,
lead in team scoring by contributing 20 points in 20 playoff games for
Detroit. During the regular season, he had achieved the rare feat of
scoring 5 goals in a single game, as he got all of Detroit’s goals in a
5-4 overtime win against the Washington Capitals on December 26, 1996.

After a lengthy holdout to start the 1997–98 season, Fedorov, a restricted free agent, signed an offer sheet with the Carolina Hurricanes worth
up to $38 million (with bonuses). The Red Wings matched the offer on
February 26, 1998, ending Fedorov’s holdout. The offer broke down as:
$14 million for signing, $2 million for 21 regular season games, and $12
million for the team reaching conference finals. $28 million for 43
total games in 1997–98 is the largest single season amount paid to an
NHL athlete. Fedorov helped the Red Wings win their second consecutive
Stanley Cup that season.

On February 14, 1999, Fedorov announced that his entire base salary for the 1998–99 season,
$2 million, would be used to create the Sergei Fedorov Foundation, a
charity to assist Detroit area children. During the 1990s, Fedorov was
third in playoff scoring, with 134 points behind only Jaromír Jágr (135) and Mario Lemieux (186). He is only the third player in NHL history to have four consecutive 20+ point playoff campaigns, along with Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier.

Fedorov won a silver medal with Russia in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and a bronze medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Fedorov also won his third Stanley Cup that year, and the next season scored 83 points in 80 games during the 2002–03 NHL season, and won the inaugural Kharlamov Trophy.

After a October 25, 2002 game between Pittsburgh and Detroit, talking to reporters about Fedorov, Mario Lemieux said,
“He was awesome. The way he skates, he’s just dominating out there.
Especially in the neutral zone, he picks up a lot of speed. You can’t
defend against that.”[8]

In the 2003 offseason, Fedorov signed with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim after
a long contract dispute with the Red Wings, in which he rejected deals
for 5 years/$50 million and 4 years/$40 million. He remained with
Anaheim from 2003 to 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.[9]

In an unanticipated move, he was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets on November 15, 2005.[10] As
a Blue Jacket, he 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.[11]

In response on his decision to play hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino,
Fedorov said, “I don’t think it is appropriate to delay my decision
about the Olympics any further. As much as I would enjoy representing my
country in Italy, I’m afraid that at this point in the season my focus
has to remain with the Columbus Blue Jackets… I feel that the most
important thing is for me to continue to work towards being 100 percent
healthy. My main priority and responsibility is to the Columbus Blue
Jackets and I don’t believe participating in the Olympics, which is a
short, intense tournament, would be the best thing to do.”[12]

In a 2006 interview, former Red Wing head coach Scotty Bowman said,
“[Fedorov was] one of my favorite players as a coach because he can do
anything [asked of him on ice].” Bowman coached nine of Fedorov’s
thirteen seasons with Detroit. During the late 1990s, Bowman
experimented by using Fedorov on defense and pairing him with Larry Murphy. The Red Wings senior vice-president Jim Devellano said, “I’m convinced if we left him there, he’d have won a Norris Trophy”.[4] Although
he was effective playing defense, Fedorov stated that he would rather
play up front. This did not prevent Blue Jackets head coach Ken Hitchcock from moving Fedorov back to defense on occasion.

Fedorov signed a
free-agent contract with Anaheim for less than the Red Wings offered him
after Detroit lost to Anaheim in the first round of the playoffs in
2003. He is fourth all-time in many offensive categories in Red Wings
history behind Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, and Alex Delvecchio. Only Howe, Yzerman, Delvecchio, and Nicklas Lidström have played more games as a Red Wing.

Approaching the trade deadline in 2008, Fedorov was traded to the Washington Capitals for Capitals draft pick Theo Ruth.[13] The following summer, Fedorov signed a one-year, $4 million contract with the Washington Capitals. In 2008–09, what would become his final season in the NHL, Fedorov passed Alexander Mogilny for most goals by a Russian-born hockey player. The previous record held by Mogilny was 473 goals.

In a 2009 interview, former Red Wings Head coach Scotty Bowman recalled a conversation between Gretzky and him saying, “I talked to Wayne Gretzky about
that six or seven years ago and he said to me: ‘I couldn’t play forward
and defence. Mario couldn’t do it. Jagr couldn’t play defence. But
Sergei could. He was a hell of a player’.”[14]

In one of his last games in the NHL, after shooting the game-winning goal in the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the New York Rangers in a 2-1 game 7 contest, coach Bruce Boudreau in
a press conference remarked that, “Let’s face it, sometimes experience
pays off. He knew what he had to do, when to do it, and that’s what
makes him one of the greatest players, ever.”

For the 2009–10
season, Fedorov returned to his home country of Russia signing a 2-year
deal with Magnitogorsk. He said that he wanted to fulfill his father’s
life long dream of having his two sons play on the same team.[15] Early in the season, Fedorov scored his 1500th point in official games.[16]

In a description of Fedorov in a Hockey Hall of Fame Legends biography article describing him as

“Equally superb
at center or on the wing, and a high scorer with outstanding defensive
ability, Fedorov is a pure player who has mastered all facets of the
game from A to Z. A gifted stickhandler, he can take on two or three
opponents at a time. But if he spots a teammate in a better position, he
will pass the puck, whether it’s a few feet or halfway down the ice.”[2]

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