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Viacheslav Fetisov
Hockey Hall of Fame, 2001
Born (1958-04-20) April 20, 1958 (age 66)
Moscow, USSR
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 215 lb (98 kg; 15 st 5 lb)
Position Defence
Played for NHL
New Jersey Devils
Detroit Red Wings
RSL
HC Spartak Moscow
CSKA Moscow
National team  Soviet Union
NHL draft 145th overall, 1983
New Jersey Devils
Playing career 1977–1998
Olympic medal record
Ice hockey
Gold medal – first place 1984 Sarajevo Men
Gold medal – first place 1988 Calgary Men
Silver medal – second place 1980 Lake Placid Men

Viacheslav (Slava) Alexandrovich Fetisov (Russian: Вячеслав (Слава) Александрович Фетисов, Vjačeslav (Slava) Aleksandrovič Fetisov; born April 20, 1958, in Moscow, Soviet Union, now Russia) is a member of the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, president of professional Russian hockey club HC CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kontinental Hockey League, chair of the WADA Athletes Committee,[1] and a reitred professional ice hockey defenseman. He was also the Minister of Sport in Russia from 2002 to 2008.

Fetisov was a long-time captain for the Soviet Union national team and is considered one of the best defensemen of all time. He was voted as one of six players to the International Ice Hockey Federation's (IIHF) Centennial All-Star Team.

Playing career

Fetisov played for CSKA Moscow for fourteen years from 1975 to 1989, before defecting to the NHL. With Igor Larionov, he was instrumental in breaking the barrier that stopped Soviet players from joining the NHL; Fetisov signed with the New Jersey Devils and Larionov signed with the Vancouver Canucks. He played with the Devils from 1989 to 1995, before joining the Detroit Red Wings. He won back-to-back Stanley Cups with Detroit in 1997 and 1998, then retired.

Nearly eleven years later, Fetisov announced he was coming out of retirement at the age of 51 to play in a game for CSKA Moscow. Head coach Sergei Nemchinov turned to Fetisov, president of the club, in desperate need of a replacement for the injured Denis Kulyash.[2]

International play

On the international stage, Fetisov is one of the most decorated players ever, winning two golds (1984, 1988) and one silver (1980) in the Olympics, and seven golds (1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990), one silver (1987), two bronzes (1985, 1991) in the World Championships, one Canada Cup in 1981, and Ice Hockey World Junior Championship in 1978. At the 2002 Olympics, he was head coach of the Russian national team, winning the bronze. Fetisov and team mate Igor Larionov, along with Scott Niedermayer and Joe Sakic, are the only players to win the Stanley Cup, World Ice Hockey Champions, Ice Hockey at the Winter Olympics, World Ice Hockey Junior Championship, and Canada/World Cup Championship.

Coaching career

Fetisov became an assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils following his playing career and won the Stanley Cup with the club in 2000 during his three-year tenure (1999-2002).

Executive career

On March 29, 2005, Fetisov joined the World Anti-Doping Agency's Athlete Committee as its inaugural chairman.[3]

In 2009, he became president of HC CSKA Moscow. Following the injuries of CSKA's several key defenders, Fetisov, aged 51 at the time, signed a player's contract until the end of 2009/2010 season, resuming his playing career after eleven years.[4]

Honors

Fetisov's red uniform (#2) from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto in 1999.

In his home country, Fetisov has been awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1984,[5] the Order of Lenin in 1988, the Order Of Service To The Fatherland 4th class in 2000 and 3rd class 2005, the Order Of Honour in 1998, the Order of Friendship in 2007, and two Orders of the Badge of Honor. On October 22, 1981, Russian astronomer Nikolai Chernykh discovered a main-belt asteroid from the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Ukraine. The asteroid was named the 8806 Fetisov after Fetisov.

In North America, Fetisov was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001. Internationally, he has been recognized by the IIHF in the International Centennial All-Star Team. He received the most votes out of all players in a poll conducted by a group of 56 experts from 16 countries to assemble the historic squad.[6]

Car accident

Following a private party on June 13, 1997, celebrating the Red Wings’ Stanley Cup triumph, Fetisov, along with teammate Vladimir Konstantinov and team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov, hired a limousine to drive them home. The driver, Richard Gnida, whose license was suspended at the time for drunk driving, lost control of the limousine and hit a tree on the median of Woodward Avenue, in Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb north of Detroit. Konstantinov spent several weeks in a coma before finally pulling through. He also suffered from serious head injuries and paralysis, while Fetisov escaped with relatively minor injuries and was able to play the following season. Mnatsakanov sustained heavy head injuries and also spent some time in a coma. He has had a considerably more difficult recovery than Konstantinov. The driver was charged with and convicted of driving with a suspended license.

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1978–79 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 29 10 19 29 40 — — — — —
1979–80 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 37 10 14 24 46 — — — — —
1980–81 HC CSKA Moscow USSR — 13 16 29 44 — — — — —
1981–82 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 46 15 26 41 20 — — — — —
1982–83 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 43 6 17 23 46 — — — — —
1983–84 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 44 19 30 49 38 — — — — —
1984–85 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 20 13 12 25 6 — — — — —
1985–86 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 40 15 19 34 12 — — — — —
1986–87 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 39 13 20 33 18 — — — — —
1987–88 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 46 18 17 35 26 — — — — —
1988–89 HC CSKA Moscow USSR 23 9 8 17 18 — — — — —
1989–90 New Jersey Devils NHL 72 8 34 42 52 6 0 2 2 10
1990–91 New Jersey Devils NHL 67 3 16 19 62 7 0 0 0 15
1991–92 New Jersey Devils NHL 70 3 23 26 108 6 0 3 3 8
1992–93 New Jersey Devils NHL 76 4 23 27 158 5 0 2 2 4
1993–94 New Jersey Devils NHL 52 1 14 15 30 14 1 0 1 8
1994–95 New Jersey Devils NHL 4 0 1 1 0 — — — — —
1994–95 Detroit Red Wings NHL 14 3 11 14 2 18 0 8 8 14
1995–96 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 7 35 42 96 19 1 4 5 34
1996–97 Detroit Red Wings NHL 64 5 23 28 76 20 0 4 4 42
1997–98 Detroit Red Wings NHL 58 2 12 14 72 21 0 3 3 10
2009–10 HC CSKA Moscow KHL 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
USSR totals 367 141 198 339 314 — — — — —
NHL totals 546 36 192 228 656 116 2 26 28 145
KHL totals 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —

References

  1. ^ World Anti-Doping Agency. "Athlete Committee". Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  2. ^ "Fetisov set to play again at 51". The Sports Network. 2009-12-10. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
  3. ^ World Anti-Doping Agency (March 29, 2005). "WADA Appoints Members to New Athlete Committee". Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  4. ^ ""Viacheslav Fetisov to play for CSKA"" (in Russian).
  5. ^ Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Physical Culture and Sports publisher. 1985. p. 37.
  6. ^ IIHF Centennial All-Star Team
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