Igor Petrovich Boldin

Igor Boldin
Date of birth	2nd February 1964
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1992 , 8th lap, 180th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1981-1992	HK Spartak Moscow
1993-1995	HPK Hämeenlinna
1995-1996	TuTo Turku
1996-1997	Brynäs IF
1997-2002	HK Spartak Moscow
2002-2003	THK Tver

Igor Petrovich Boldin ( Russian Игорь Петрович Болдин; born February 2, 1964 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and coach. He won the Olympic ice hockey tournament with the CIS team in 1992 .

Career

Boldin began his career as a player at Spartak Moscow in 1981/82 and remained loyal to the club until the fall of the Soviet Union . Even as a junior player, he was immediately after winning the World Cup U20 1983 in the Lord selection of the USSR appointed, but in the almost nine years to the end of the Soviet Union, he was only 15 operations, in particular he was at this time not in the squad for World Championships still for Olympics. In 1992 he was then appointed to both the CIS Olympic team and Russia's World Cup selection, while the World Cup ended unsuccessfully, the CIS team won the Olympic ice hockey tournament. In the same year he was named an Honored Master of Sport .

In the 1992 NHL Entry Draft , the St. Louis Blues took him out of the NHL in the eighth round as 180th, after which his contract with Spartak ended, but shortly before a planned trip to conclude a contract, he suffered serious injuries in a car accident in Moscow prevented him from playing ice hockey for more than a year.

From 1993 to 1997, Boldin played for various Finnish and Swedish clubs before moving back to Spartak in the summer of 1997, for which he played in the first and second team until 2001, before ending his career at THK Tver in the Wysschaya League in 2001/02 let.

Boldin then became a trainer. He is currently the third coach of HK Spartak Moscow.

Web links

• Igor Boldin at hockeydb.com (English)
• Igor Boldin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )