Vasily Viktorovich Tikhonov

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Vasily Wiktorowitsch Tichonow ( Russian Василий Викторович Тихонов ; born May 13, 1958 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ; † August 7, 2013 ibid) was a Russian ice hockey player and coach . During his career from 1976 to 1983 he played in the first and second Soviet leagues on the position of defender . After his active career, he worked as a coach in the top leagues in Europe and North America .

He was the son of the famous Soviet ice hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov and father of the ice hockey player of the same name .

Career

Tikhonov began playing ice hockey in Moscow as a child . At the age of eleven, he moved with the family to Riga in the Latvian SSR because of his father, who had accepted the post of head coach of Daugava Riga in 1968 . From 1976 on, Tichonow himself played actively in the first and second Soviet leagues before he ended his career in 1983 at the age of 25 and began training as a coach. He graduated from the Latvian SSR with a bachelor's degree , having previously obtained a master's degree in biomechanics .

Tichonow started his coaching career at Energo Riga , who played in the second Soviet league around 1985, as an assistant coach. In 1987 he took over his first head coach position with the Dinamo Riga Juniors , which he held for three years and trained one of the best Latvian goalkeepers of all time with Artūrs Irbe . During this time his son Viktor was born. With the end of his engagement with Dinamo Riga and the break-up of the Soviet Union , Tichonow accepted an offer as head coach of Ässät Pori from the Finnish SM-liiga in November 1990 . After three years in the Finnish elite class, in which he had twice led the team to the semi-finals of the play-offs , the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League made him an offer in April 1993 as an advisor to the scouting department for the upcoming NHL entry Draft , as San Jose mostly focused on players from the former Soviet Union during this time . In the summer of the same year he was promoted to assistant coach under the newly hired head coach Kevin Constantine . He filled this position until 10 October 1995, she with drew remenda and Wayne Thomas from before Jim Wiley and Mark Kaufman Tikhonov and Remenda replaced in their positions. Tichonow remained in the organization, however, as he took over the head coaching post of Wileys at the Kansas City Blades in the International Hockey League , the then farm team of the Sharks, for the rest of the 1995/96 game year . Tichonow was also the first coach born in Europe to coach a North American professional ice hockey team as head coach. After he had reached the playoffs with the team, but failed in the first round, the Sharks demoted him for the next two years to assistant coach of their new farm team in the American Hockey League , the Kentucky Thoroughblades . There he worked under the also demoted Wiley. After the end of the 1997/98 season, he finally ended his commitment to North America and returned to Europe.

There he worked again for two years, between 1999 and 2001, in Finland for the first division club Lukko Rauma , with whom he again twice qualified for the playoffs. In the summer of 2001 he was finally signed by the SCL Tigers from the Swiss National League A as the boss behind the gang. In Switzerland, the discipline fanatic Tichonow did not get along well, which was reflected in his dismissal on November 2, 2001 after he had only got 14 points from the first 19 games of the season and the Tigers were eleventh and penultimate place in the table. As a result, he worked as an assistant coach at HK CSKA Moscow when his father temporarily occupied the office of president and coach. During this time, Tikhonov was significantly involved in the conflict with Nikolai Scherdew in the winter of 2003, who, after quarrels with the coaching staff, fled to North America to the Columbus Blue Jackets from the NHL and thus arbitrarily broke off his military service at the army club.

After a break of several years, Tikhonov filled the post of assistant coach at HK Awangard Omsk in the Continental Hockey League under head coach Raimo Summanen in the 2010/11 season . In the following season he was assistant coach at Ak Bars Kazan , before starting in 2012 as a consultant to General Manager Sergei Fyodorov at CSKA Moscow.

Vasily Tikhonov died on August 7, 2013 after falling from the fourth floor of his house while trying to repair a protective screen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b RIA Novosti , Vasily Tikhonov, Son of Legendary Soviet Hockey Coach, Dies at 56
  2. ↑ sports.espn.go.com, Could it be? Tikhonov and Gretzky with the same team?
  3. ↑ Martin Burri: A Russian, a Czech and maybe an Emmentaler? In: wochen-zeitung.ch. March 15, 2001. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ hockeyfans.ch, Langnau dismisses Vasili Tikhonov
  5. ↑ sports.espn.go.com, Fourth overall pick leaves Russia
  6. ↑ sports.espn.go.com, Zherdev's day off 'intentional'
  7. ↑ Vasili Tikhonov 1958-2013. In: webarchive.iihf.com. August 6, 2013, accessed November 15, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tichonow, Wassili Wiktorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tichonow, Wassili; Tikhonov, Vasily (English); Tikhonov, Vasili; Тихонов, Василий Викторович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian SFSR
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 2013
Place of death Moscow