Sergey Fyodorov

Sergey Fyodorov started his ice hockey career in the Soviet Union, playing four seasons with CSKA Moscow from 1987 through 1990 and winning league titles every year except the last. Representing this country, he won silver and gold respectively at the 1988 and 1989 World Junior Championships, and gold medals at the senior edition in 1989 and 1990. He then defected to the United States and began a career with the National Hockey League’s Detroit Red Wings that would last 13 seasons through 2003 and see him win the Stanley Cup three times (1997, 1998, and 2002). His banner year, however, was 1994, when he won the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP, the Lester B. Pearson Award as the MVP voted by the NHL Players Association, and the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the league’s best defensive forward, in addition to making the first All-Star team. He also won the Selke Trophy in 1996.

With the fall of the Soviet Union, Fyodorov represented Russia internationally, winning silver and bronze at the 1998 Nagano and 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics respectively. In 2003 he joined the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and played with them for one season, followed by the 2004-05 season that was cancelled due to a lockout. Afterwards, he played five games for the Mighty Ducks before being traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets, where he would spend almost the next three seasons. His final trade was to the Washington Capitals near the end of the 2007-08 season, after which he spent one more year with the Capitals before returning to Russia. He then played a final three seasons with Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. Internationally, he skipped the 2006 Turin Olympics, but competed in 2010, when Russia placed sixth. He also picked up gold and silver at the 2008 and 2010 World Championships respectively.

Following his retirement, Fyodorov took up coaching and administration, and was the general manager of CSKA Moscow from 2013 through 2017. He returned in 2021 and ran them again through 2024. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015.