Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov (Russian:Сергей Викторович Фёдоров, Sergej Viktorovič Fëdorov; born December 13 1969 in Pskov, USSR; now Russia) is a professional ice hockey forward who plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League.

Playing Career

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Sergei was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, fourth round, 74th overall. In his pre-NHL days, he played for CSKA Moscow on a line with future superstars Pavel Bure and Alexander Mogilny and was drafted in the same year as Bure and a year after Mogilny. In 1990, while CSKA Moscow was in Seattle for the Goodwill Games, Fedorov quietly slipped out of his hotel room and onto an airplane bound for Detroit. Thus, he became one of many NHL stars to have defected from the Soviet Union to play in the NHL.

Arguably, his greatest season was in the 1993-94 NHL season when he won that year's Hart Memorial Trophy (being the first European-trained player to do so), Frank J. Selke Trophy and Lester B. Pearson Award, and finished second in scoring behind Los Angeles' Wayne Gretzky with 56 goals and 120 points. He would also win another Frank J. Selke Trophy in 1996, after compiling another 100-point season with 39 goals and 107 points. One year later, he was a member of the Red Wings' first Stanley Cup championship team since 1955, contributing 20 points in 20 playoff games for Detroit. He would go on to win two more Stanley Cups in 1998 (with 20 points in 22 playoff games) and 2002, both with the Red Wings. He also won a bronze medal with Russia in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and a silver medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

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