Vyacheslav Arkadyevich Bykov

Vyacheslav Bykov
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2014
Date of birth	July 24, 1960
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Nickname	Slava
size	173 cm
Weight	73 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1989 , 9th lap, 169th position Québec Nordiques
Career stations
1979-1980	HK Metallurg Chelyabinsk
1980-1982	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
1982-1990	HK CSKA Moscow
1990-1998	Friborg-Gottéron
1998-2000	Lausanne HC

Vyacheslav Arkadievich "Slava" Bykov ( Russian Вячеслав Аркадьевич Быков , scientific transliteration. Vjačeslav Arkad'evič Bykov * 24 July 1960 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a retired Soviet and Russian ice hockey player and was 2006-2011 coach of the Russian National ice hockey team . Bykow has been a Swiss citizen since 2003 . His son Andrei is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career as a player

Slawa Bykow, Lausanne 2011

His career began in 1979 with the Soviet first division club HK Metallurg Tscheljabinsk , where he scored 50 goals in 60 games as the best striker. In the following year he moved to the local competitor tractor Chelyabinsk . After two seasons, he was discovered for the 1982/83 season for CSKA Moscow and was soon appointed to the Soviet national ice hockey team. In the NHL Entry Draft 1989 he was selected by the Québec Nordiques in the 9th round in 169th place. But he never played in the National Hockey League . In 1990 he moved from ZSKA to the Swiss National League A to Friborg-Gottéron and stayed here for another seven years. He spent his last two years as a hockey player with the HC Lausanne in the Swiss National League B . With CSKA Moscow he was champion and European Cup winner seven times .

With the "Sbornaja", the Soviet national team, he won the ice hockey world championship four times, in 1983 , 1986 , 1989 and 1990 , and was European champion a total of six times. He also won the gold medal with the team at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. In 1983 he was named the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR .

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , he continued to play for the newly formed Russian national ice hockey team or national team of the CIS. With her he won his second Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville and his fifth world championship title at the 1993 Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany.

Career as a coach

Bykov (left) with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev

After finishing his playing career, he was an assistant coach at the Lausanne Hockey Club and Friborg-Gottéron . In 2004 he went back to Russia and trained there with CSKA Moscow, the record champions of the former Soviet Union. Under his athletic leadership, the army sports club's ice hockey department returned to the top of the national league, and in 2008 CSKA finished the qualifying phase of the Russian Super League in third place. At the end of the 2008/09 season Bykov left the CSKA Moscow and moved together with his assistant Igor Sacharkin to the league rivals Salawat Yulayev Ufa .

In August 2006, he accepted the offer of the President of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation and former teammate Vladislav Tretyak and Minister of Sports Vyacheslav Fetissov to train the Russian national team. At the home World Cup in 2007 , the Russians achieved the bronze medal under his leadership.

A year later, at the World Cup in Canada , Russia ended the 15-year long dry spell without a world championship or Olympic victory by beating the hosts in the final. In 2009 Bykow managed to defend their title with his team again after a final win against Canada. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , the Russians lost 7-3 in the quarter-finals against the hosts from Canada. A few months later Bykov and Sbornaja also lost the final of the 2010 World Cup in Germany with 1: 2 against the Czechs and missed the title hat trick. In the summer of 2010, the Russian Federation extended the contract with Bykov up to the 2014 Olympic Games. However, he was dismissed after the unsatisfactory World Cup in Slovakia in 2011 . In addition, Salawat Julajew Ufa did not extend the expiring contract.

From April 2014 Bykov was the head coach of SKA Saint Petersburg , with which he won the Gagarin Cup in 2015 .

Personal

He is married and has two children. His family lives in Marly , Switzerland. In 2003 he was naturalized and received the Swiss passport.

Web links

• Vyacheslav Bykov at eurohockey.com
• Vyacheslav Bykov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aargauer Zeitung , hockey legend Bykov has a red passport, but a Russian soul , February 6, 2014, accessed on January 25, 2015
2. ↑ How Russians skated into Swiss hockey history . March 19, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2014.