Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Fetissov
 Vyacheslav Fetisov 
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| Hockey Hall of Fame , 2001 | |
| IIHF Hall of Fame , 2005 | |
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| Date of birth | April 20, 1958 |
| place of birth | Moscow , Russian SFSR |
| size | 185 cm |
| Weight | 98 kg |
| position | defender |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Draft | |
| NHL Amateur Draft |
1978 , 12th lap, 201st position Montréal Canadiens |
| NHL Entry Draft |
1983 , 8th lap, 145th position New Jersey Devils |
| Career stations | |
| 1974-1989 | HK CSKA Moscow |
| 1989-1995 | New Jersey Devils |
| 1995-1998 | Detroit Red Wings |
| 2009 | HK CSKA Moscow |
Vyacheslav Alexandrovich "Slawa" Fetissow ( Russian Вячеслав Александрович Фетисов ; English transcription: Viacheslav Fetisov ; born April 20, 1958 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and current sports official . The defender spent most of his career in his home country at HK CSKA Moscow , with whom he won numerous Soviet championships and European ice hockey championships between 1974 and 1989 . In 1989 he was one of the first Soviet players who moved to North America in the National Hockey League (NHL), where he subsequently played for the New Jersey Devils and the Detroit Red Wings . With the Red Wings he was part of the Russian Five and won the Stanley Cup with the team in 1997 and 1998 .
At the international level, Fetisov was an integral part of the Soviet national team , which he led as captain to gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics . In addition, he won numerous world championship titles with the team, making him a member of the Triple Gold Club . Overall, the defender is considered one of the best players of all time, so he was voted with the most votes in the IIHF Centennial All-Star Team , a selection of the six best players of the 20th century. He is also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame .
After the end of his active career, Fetissow worked briefly as an assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils and as head coach of the Russian national team , but then turned to a job as a sports official. Among other things, he headed the HK CSKA Moscow and the Continental Hockey League and has held a number of sport-political functions, both within the Russian government and internationally, for example at the World Anti-Doping Agency .
Career
Fetissov's father, Alexander, was a sports-loving worker in an aircraft factory, who himself actively played football on the factory's works team. At the age of four, Vyacheslav Fetisov stood for the first time on ice skates and in winter ran on the frozen lakes near his parents' apartment. With other young people from the neighborhood, who together formed a street team, he reached the final of the competition for the “Golden Puck”, which was held in the CSKA stadium, at the age of 15. His coach Boris Werbinow then recommended him for further training at the sports school of the CSKA Moscow Army Sports Club .
He achieved his first major success at the Junior World Championships in 1976 and 1978, where he won the gold medal with the U20 selection. At the 1978 edition, Fetissow played against future superstar Wayne Gretzky, among others . He later said of Fetissov: "In my life I have not met a more stubborn, more active, smarter and harder defender than Fetissov."
Successes with the CSKA (1975–1989)
Together with his fellow defender Alexei Kassatonow and the KLM series , he played at HK CSKA Moscow and formed the legendary 1st block of the Soviet national team for over a decade and was instrumental in the team's successes. In the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft , the Montréal Canadiens selected him as 201st in the 12th round. After the contract was not signed, it was available again in the draft after two years. He was drawn by the New Jersey Devils in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft in the 8th round in 145th place for the second time.
In 1983 he finished his studies at the Military Institute for Physical Culture.
In 1984, 1988 and 1989 Fetisov was awarded the Golden Bat by the daily Izvestia as the best Soviet player of the year and, together with Wladislaw Tretyak , who also won the award three times, is a record winner.
Change to the National Hockey League
In January 1989 a newspaper appeared with the headline: Fetissow: “I don't want to play under Tikhonov anymore”. In the accompanying article, Fetissov denounced the conditions at CSKA Moscow, the adverse training and living conditions of the barracked national players and the lack of personal freedom. The background to the conflict was contract offers from the NHL to Fetissow. “Coach Tichonov signed my departure to New Jersey in the summer, but did nothing to bring the matter to an end. Not only did I think about my own well-being, but also that this trip can help Soviet ice hockey players learn from the Americans, ” said Fetissov at the time.
As a result, Tikhonov initially prevented Fetissov from being discharged from the army, threatened to transfer him to Siberia and suspended him from training at CSKA. Fetissow therefore took part in the training of the factory team at a pencil factory. Chess world champion Garry Kasparow and several national ice hockey players stood up for Fetissow and demanded his return as captain in the selection. Eventually Tikhonov bowed to public pressure and Fetisov was rehabilitated. He was also given permission to switch to an NHL franchise on condition that he would continue to play for the national team. With the striker Igor Larionow he was the first Soviet player in the NHL.
Fetissow played from the 1989-90 season with the New Jersey Devils . In April 1995 he moved to the Detroit Red Wings , with whom he won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1997 and 1998 .
Six days after the 1997 final victory, Fetissow, team-mate Vladimir Konstantinow and Sergei Mnazakanow, a Russian Red Wings supervisor , drove home in a limousine after a Red Wings golf tournament, including dinner. The vehicle came off the road and hit a tree. Konstantinow and Mnazakanow suffered life-threatening head injuries. In the following 1997/98 season, the Red Wings wore a circular emblem on their jerseys in honor of Konstantinov and Mnazakanov, on which the word "Faith" and the initials of the two injured could be read in English and Russian. The team won the Stanley Cup again this season, as in the previous year with 4-0 victories in the final series.
In 2001 Fetissov's achievements were honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame , in 2005 with the induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame .
In December 2009, at the age of 51, he made a comeback when he signed a contract with CSKA Moscow, whose team had to replace several defenders due to injury. On December 11, 2009, after about eleven years of abstinence from professional sport, he made his comeback when he played as a defender for eight minutes after a defeat by CSKA Moscow.
International
With the Soviet national team he was able to win two gold medals and one silver medal at the Olympic Games , as well as seven world championship titles , one silver and three bronze medals.
In 1978 he was named the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR .
As a trainer
Between 1998 and 2002 he was assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils, with whom he won the Stanley Cup again at the end of the 1999/2000 season. From August 2001 Fetisov was parallel general manager of the Russian national team . At the 2002 Winter Olympics , he briefly took over the post of head coach in addition to his position as general manager and won the bronze medal with the national team.
As a sports official and politician
In 2002 he was appointed head of the Russian State Committee for Sport by then Russian President Vladimir Putin . In the following six years he acted for Putin as sports minister and was responsible, among other things, for the successful Russian application for the 2014 Winter Olympics . He also initiated a program for the nationwide construction of sports facilities with a budget of around 100 billion rubles.
Fetissow has been a member of the WADA board since 2004 and has been chairman of the WADA athletes' commission since 2005. He is also the first chairman of the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport .
In October 2008 Fetissow was elected to represent the Pacific Primorye in the Federation Council ( Upper House of Parliament) and was confirmed in this office in December 2011. On October 27, 2008 he was elected chairman of the "Commission for Physical Culture, Sport and the Development of the Olympic Movement". He is also a member of the Federation Council Committee on Local Administration and Youth and Tourism . Since December 16, 2011, he has also been the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council for Social Policy .
From October 2008 Fetissow was chairman of the board of the Continental Hockey League and on May 1, 2009 also took over the office of club president of the HK CSKA Moscow . Since 2009 he has also held the Chair of Management and Marketing in the Sports Industry at the Russian Plekhanov University of Economics .
Since the takeover of HK CSKA Moscow by the Russian oil company Rosneft , there have been differences between the management of the club and Fetisov. In addition, Fetisov complained about the lack of influence of the board of the KHL and the power of the KHL President Alexander Medvedev . In mid-January 2012 he resigned as President of HK CSKA Moscow and Chairman of the Continental Hockey League in order to "concentrate fully on politics in the future and [cover] Vladimir Putin's back". Since April 2012 he has been the chairman of the Russian Amateur Ice Hockey League (RHLH).
Career statistics
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
| 1974/75 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1975/76 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1976/77 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 27 | 3 | 4th | 7th | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1977/78 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 35 | 9 | 8th | 17th | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1978/79 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 29 | 10 | 19th | 29 | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1979/80 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 37 | 10 | 14th | 24 | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1980/81 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 43 | 13 | 16 | 29 | 44 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1981/82 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 46 | 15th | 26th | 41 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1982/83 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 43 | 6th | 17th | 23 | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1983/84 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 44 | 19th | 30th | 49 | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1984/85 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 20th | 13 | 12 | 25th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1985/86 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 40 | 15th | 19th | 34 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1986/87 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 39 | 13 | 20th | 33 | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1987/88 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 46 | 18th | 17th | 35 | 26th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1988/89 | CSKA Moscow | Vysschaya League | 23 | 9 | 8th | 17th | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1989/90 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 72 | 8th | 34 | 42 | 52 | 6th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||
| 1990/91 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 67 | 3 | 16 | 19th | 62 | 7th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15th | ||
| 1990/91 | Utica Devils | AHL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1991/92 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 70 | 3 | 23 | 26th | 108 | 6th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8th | ||
| 1992/93 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 76 | 4th | 23 | 27 | 158 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | ||
| 1993/94 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 52 | 1 | 14th | 15th | 30th | 14th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8th | ||
| 1994/95 | HK Spartak Moscow | MHL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1994/95 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1994/95 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 14th | 3 | 11 | 14th | 2 | 18th | 0 | 8th | 8th | 14th | ||
| 1995/96 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 69 | 7th | 35 | 42 | 96 | 19th | 1 | 4th | 5 | 34 | ||
| 1996/97 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 64 | 5 | 23 | 28 | 76 | 20th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 42 | ||
| 1997/98 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 58 | 2 | 12 | 14th | 72 | 21st | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | ||
| 1998-2009 | without a contract | not played after resignation | ||||||||||||
| 2009/10 | HK CSKA Moscow | KHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Wysschaja League overall | 473 | 153 | 221 | 374 | 374 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| NHL overall | 546 | 36 | 192 | 228 | 656 | 116 | 2 | 26th | 28 | 145 | ||||
International
| year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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| 1975 | USSR | U19 European Championship |
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5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1976 | USSR | U20 World Cup |
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4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| 1976 | USSR | U19 European Championship |
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4th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1977 | USSR | U20 World Cup |
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7th | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4th | |
| 1977 | USSR | WM |
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5 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 2 | |
| 1978 | USSR | U20 World Cup |
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7th | 3 | 5 | 8th | 6th | |
| 1978 | USSR | WM |
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10 | 4th | 6th | 10 | 11 | |
| 1980 | USSR | Olympia |
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7th | 5 | 4th | 9 | 10 | |
| 1981 | USSR | WM |
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8th | 1 | 4th | 5 | 6th | |
| 1981 | USSR | Canada Cup |
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7th | 1 | 7th | 8th | 10 | |
| 1982 | USSR | WM |
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10 | 4th | 3 | 7th | 6th | |
| 1982/83 | USSR | Super Series | 6th | 1 | 4th | 5 | 10 | ||
| 1983 | USSR | WM |
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10 | 3 | 7th | 10 | 8th | |
| 1984 | USSR | Olympia |
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7th | 3 | 8th | 11 | 8th | |
| 1985 | USSR | WM |
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10 | 6th | 7th | 13 | 15th | |
| 1986 | USSR | WM |
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10 | 6th | 9 | 15th | 10 | |
| 1987 | USSR | Rendez-vous '87 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1987 | USSR | WM |
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10 | 2 | 8th | 10 | 2 | |
| 1987 | USSR | Canada Cup |
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9 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 9 | |
| 1988 | USSR | Olympia |
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8th | 4th | 9 | 13 | 6th | |
| 1989 | USSR | WM |
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10 | 2 | 4th | 6th | 17th | |
| 1990 | USSR | WM |
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8th | 2 | 8th | 10 | 8th | |
| 1991 | USSR | WM |
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10 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 4th | |
| 1996 | Russia | World cup | 3rd / 4th | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | |
| Juniors overall | 27 | 9 | 7th | 16 | 21st | ||||
| Men overall | 151 | 52 | 100 | 152 | 156 | ||||
( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1 play-downs / relegation )
Achievements and Awards
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International
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Others
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literature
- Vyacheslav Fetisov : Овертайм (Overtime) . Vagrius-Verlag, Moscow 1998, ISBN 5-7027-0510-6 (Russian).
Web links
- Vyacheslav Fetissov in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
- Vyacheslav Fetissov at hockeydb.com (English)
- Vyacheslav Fetisov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- One on One with Viacheslav Fetisov at hhof.com
- Russia in person → Vyacheslav Fetissov with the voice of Russia
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Ice hockey legend Vyacheslav Fetissov turns 50. N24.de , April 20, 2008, accessed on May 8, 2018 .
- ^ Stephan Müller: International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia: 1904 - 2005 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt, Germany 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-4189-9 , pp. 5 .
- ↑ Fetissow on comeback eight minutes on the ice ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 13, 2009
- ↑ a b c sochi2014.com, Vyacheslav Fetisov - Supervisory Board
- ^ Voice of Russia, December 2, 2010
- ↑ Three billion euros for the Russian target program physical culture and sport. RIA Novosti, December 7, 2005, accessed June 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Биография Вячеслава Фетисова. In: RIA Novosti . April 20, 2013, Retrieved May 8, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Yahoo , KHL seeks games vs. NHL; Vyacheslav Fetisov quits KHL, CSKA; Vityaz's Mikhail Anisin sings , January 21, 2012, accessed June 18, 2012
- ↑ Shoulder to shoulder with Putin: Ice hockey legend Fetissov switches to politics. RIA Novosti , January 26, 2012, accessed June 20, 2012 .
- ↑ UNESCO , Ice hockey champion Vyacheslav Fetisov to be named UNESCO Champion for Sport
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fetissow, Vyacheslav Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fetisov, Viacheslav; Fetisov, Vyacheslav; Fetisov, Slava (English spellings); Фетисов, Вячеслав Александрович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian ice hockey player and coach, minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow , Russian SFSR |