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Fedorov was one of the first hockey players to defect from his native Soviet Union in order to play in the National Hockey League (NHL). While playing with Detroit, he won the Stanley Cup three times, as well as the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player in 1994.
Oct 31, 2012 · MOSCOW – He defected. Remember that. Remember that as Sergei Fedorov does a TV interview surrounded by CSKA Moscow memorabilia – red stars on the sofa, a red star on the banner looming behind...
Oct 6, 2023 · The Detroit Red Wings used a complex plan to help Sergei Fedorov defect from the Soviet Union during a trip to America in 1990.
Apr 25, 2022 · At the time of his defecting, Red Army coach and commander, Viktor Tikhonov wanted to promote Fedorov from private to lieutenant, but it also meant that Sergei would have to sign a 25-year...
Mar 16, 2018 · The defection of one of the Soviet Union’s most prominent young hockey stars was under way. On July 23, 1990, nearly a year after our first meeting in Helsinki, Sergei Fedorov, five months shy ...
- Keith Gave
Oct 31, 2012 · He read something recently he had never heard before: Tikhonov told an interviewer that he forgave Fedorov because he was so young when he defected. Had Fedorov been older, it might have been...
Apr 27, 2019 · From the opening scene in which Fedorov became the first to defect, sneaking out of Team Russia’s hotel in Portland to flee in a getaway car, to the bags of cash Devellano showed Konstantinov in...
