I like to keep track of the players in hockey who i think should make the Hall of Fame regardless of what they do in the rest of their careers. When these players retire I like to write a career retrospective. Today I am writing about Sergei Fedorov who announced this weekend that he would retire to become the GM of CSKA Moscow in the KHL.
Fedorov was born on December 13th, 1969 in Pskov, USSR, which is in the western part of the former Soviet Union. He first became known to hockey scouts when he debuted in the Soviet Elite League at the age of 16 and 17 with Dynamo Minsk, in what is today Belarus. A young Fedorov scored six goals and seven points in only fifteen games played.
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