Sergei Fedorov

Sergei Federov (born Sergei Viktorovich Fyodorov on December 13, 1969) is a Russian retired ice hockey player and the general manager of CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He played as centre in his career, also occasionally playing as a winger or defenceman.

Sergei gained fame in the National Hockey League (NHL) for his unique style of play with the Detroit Red Wings (with whom he won the Stanley Cup three times as well as the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player in 1994).

After a highly publicized departure from the Red Wings in the summer of 2003, he played stints with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Columbus Blue Jackets and the Washington Capitals before retiring from the NHL in 2009. He played in over 1,200 NHL games and scoring 483 goals in the NHL.

Sergei is a three-time Olympian, the first European-trained player to win the Hart Trophy and is considered to be one of the best playoff performers in NHL history.

On January 27, 2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, he was part of the second group of players to be named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.

Sergei was considered one of the best players in the world in the 1990s leading into the early 2000s. He last played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the KHL where he was made captain of in early September 2011.

Sergei was also an ambassador for Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on November 9, 2015 and to the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2016.