Sergei Fedorov

Sergei Fedorov
Born	(1969-12-13) December 13, 1969 Pskov, SU
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight	206 lb (93 kg; 14 st 10 lb)
Position	Centre
Shoots	Left
NHL team Former teams	Washington Capitals Columbus Blue Jackets Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Detroit Red Wings
NHL draft	74th overall, 1989 Detroit Red Wings
Playing career	1990–present

Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Фёдоров, Sergey Viktorovich Fyodorov; born December 13 1969 in Pskov, Soviet Union) is a Russian professional ice hockey forward and occasional defenseman who plays for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. He gained fame playing for the Detroit Red Wings before tenures with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and Columbus Blue Jackets and now currently plays for the Washington Capitals

Playing career

Fedorov 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 NHL 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.

During the 1993–94 NHL season, Fedorov won that year's 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.

Fedorov won 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.

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 18, 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 (136). 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.

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. Fedorov 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. In an unanticipated move, he was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets on November 15, 2005. 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.

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". 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.

The acrimony created during his 1997–98 holdout led to hard feelings among some Red Wings fans, and those feelings were intensified when he signed his free-agent contract with Anaheim after Detroit lost to Anaheim in the first round of the playoffs that same year. Fans seemed to take the fact that Anaheim signed him for less than the Red Wings offered him as a personal slap in the face. Fedorov has since become the most consistently-booed player at Joe Louis Arena when his team comes in to play the Red Wings, as fans jeer him every time he touches the puck. Even so, he is fourth all-time in nearly every offensive category 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.

On February 26, 2008 Fedorov was traded to the Washington Capitals for Capitals draft pick Ted Ruth.

On July 9, 2008, Fedorov signed a one-year $4 million contract with the Washington Capitals.

Marriage

Sergei claimed he and tennis star Anna Kournikova were married in 2001, but later divorced in 2003. However, Kournikova's representatives deny any marriage to Fedorov.
Sergei is now married to long time sweetheart from the long time running soap opera The Young Of The Restles Vail Bloom 2 days after a sex tape was found showing a lot of nudity

Legal Trouble

Fedorov was arrested by Royal Oak, Michigan police in September 2001 for misdemeanor driving while impaired. Officers stopped Fedorov for running a red light and asked him to take a breathalyzer test. Fedorov registered a 0.09 blood alcohol level, which was below the 0.10 required for a drunk driving charge but Fedorov was charged with misdemeanor impaired driving. Fedorov pled guilty and was sentenced to a year's probation, directed to perform 100 hours of community service, and ordered to pay fines and court costs. Fedorov is currently being sued for 2 million dollars by the Citizens State Bank for unpaid loans of $1.75 million in 2004 and $500,000 in 2005.

Awards & Achievements

• NHL All-Rookie Team - 1991
• NHL All-Star Game(s) - 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003
• Frank J. Selke Trophy - 1994, 1996
• Hart Memorial Trophy - 1994
• Lester B. Pearson Award - 1994
• 1998 Winter Olympics: Silver Medal
• 2002 Winter Olympics: Bronze Medal
• 2005 Primus Challenge Bowl for World'Stars
• 1989 Ice Hockey World Championships: Gold Medal
• 1990 Ice Hockey World Championships: Gold Medal
• 2008 Ice Hockey World Championships: Gold Medal
• 1st Russian player to reach 1,000 NHL points
• 4th All-Time\RedWings history in points, goals & assists.
• 3 time Stanley Cup Champion: 1997, 1998, 2002, all with Detroit

Career statistics

				Regular Season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1986–87	CSKA Moscow	USSR		29	6	6	12	12		—	—	—	—	—
1987–88	CSKA Moscow	USSR		48	7	9	16	20		—	—	—	—	—
1988–89	CSKA Moscow	USSR		44	9	8	17	35		—	—	—	—	—
1989–90	CSKA Moscow	USSR		48	19	10	29	20		—	—	—	—	—
1990–91	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		77	31	48	79	66		7	1	5	6	4
1991–92	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		80	32	54	86	72		11	5	5	10	8
1992–93	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		73	34	53	87	72		7	3	6	9	23
1993–94	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		82	56	64	120	34		7	1	7	8	6
1994–95	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		42	20	30	50	24		17	7	17	24	6
1995–96	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		78	39	68	107	48		19	2	18	20	10
1996–97	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		74	30	33	63	30		20	8	12	20	12
1997–98	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		21	6	11	17	25		22	10	10	20	12
1998–99	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		77	26	37	63	66		10	1	8	9	8
1999–2000	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		68	27	35	62	22		9	4	4	8	4
2000–01	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		75	32	37	69	40		6	2	5	7	0
2001–02	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		81	31	37	68	36		23	5	14	19	20
2002–03	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		80	36	47	83	52		4	1	2	3	0
2003–04	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		80	31	34	65	42		—	—	—	—	—
2004–05	Did not play	—		See 2004–05 NHL lockout
2005–06	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		5	0	1	1	2	—	—	—	—	—
2005–06	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		62	12	31	43	64	—	—	—	—	—
2006–07	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		73	18	24	42	56	—	—	—	—	—
2007–08	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		50	11	30	41	38	—	—	—	—	—
2007–08	Washington Capitals	NHL		18	2	11	13	8	7	1	4	5	8
NHL Totals				1,196	472	674	1,146	789	169	51	117	168	121

International play

Played for the Soviet Union in:

• 1988 World Junior Championships (silver medal)
• 1989 World Junior Championships (gold medal)
• 1989 World Championships (gold medal)
• 1990 World Championships (gold medal)
• 1991 Canada Cup

Played for Russia in:

• 1998 Winter Olympics (silver medal)
• 1996 World Cup of Hockey
• 2002 Winter Olympics (bronze medal)
• 2008 World Championships (gold medal)

International statistics

Year	Event		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1987	WJC		6	0	0	0	8
1988	WJC		7	5	7	12	0
1989	WJC		7	4	8	12	4
1989	WC		10	6	3	9	10
1990	WC		10	4	2	6	10
1991	CC		5	2	2	4	6
1996	WCH		5	3	3	6	2
1998	Oly		6	1	5	6	8
2002	Oly		6	2	2	4	4
2008	WC		9	5	7	12	8
Senior Int'l Totals			51	21	24	47	48

Notes and References

2008 World Championships

See also

• List of NHL statistical leaders
• List of NHL seasons
• Notable families in the NHL
• List of NHL players with 1000 points
• List of NHL players with 1000 games played

External links

• Sergei Fedorov career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
• Defenseman Announcement