Nikolai Drozdetsky Explained

Nikolai Drozdetsky
Birth Date:1957 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Kolpino, Russian SFSR, USSR[1]
Death Place:St. Petersburg, Russia
Height Cm:185
Weight Kg:85
Position:Right Wing
Shoots:Left
Played For:SKA Leningrad
HC CSKA Moscow
Borås HC
Ntl Team:USSR
Career Start:1974
Career End:1995
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Nikolai Vladimirovich Drozdetsky (Russian: Николай Владимирович Дроздецкий, 14 June 1957 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian ice hockey right winger. He played for SKA Leningrad in 1974–1979, then for HC CSKA Moscow from 1979 until part way through the 1986/87 season, when he played again for Leningrad, until 1989. He finished his career with Borås HC in Sweden, where he played in 1989–1995.[2] He was named most valuable player of the Soviet elite league in 1984. He scored 252 goals in 503 league games and 64 goals in 109 international games with the Soviet national team.[3]

Drozdetsky played on the Soviet national team in 1981, 1982, 1984, and 1985, which won the IIHF World Championships in 1981 and 1982, the Olympic gold medal in 1984, the 1981 Canada Cup, and the 1981, 1982, and 1985 European championships. He was the top goal scorer at the 1984 Olympics with ten goals in seven games, and also led the Soviet team with 12 points.

He died from complications of diabetes right after participating in a Seniors' hockey game.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

  Regular season Playoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPtsPIMGPGAPtsPIM
1974–75SKA LeningradUSSR61122
1975–76SKA LeningradUSSR3167134
1976–77SKA LeningradUSSR1633620
1977–78SKA LeningradUSSR2715142921
1978–79SKA LeningradUSSR4127174472
1979–80CSKA MoscowUSSR4131184922
1980–81CSKA MoscowUSSR4430285821
1981–82CSKA MoscowUSSR4628164425
1982–83CSKA MoscowUSSR4217183516
1983–84CSKA MoscowUSSR4431205134
1984–85CSKA MoscowUSSR3912112328
1985–86CSKA MoscowUSSR311282020
1986–87CSKA MoscowUSSR73252
1986–87SKA LeningradUSSR14131144
1987–88SKA LeningradUSSR30891720
1988–89SKA LeningradUSSR4213173020
1989–90Borås HCSWE III34414283152
1990–91Borås HCSWE III34424688104
1991–92Borås HCSWE II2824204480
1992–93Borås HCSWE II2612334556
1993–94Borås HCSWE II3213284160
1994–95Borås HCSWE II318172569
USSR totals501250190440331
SWE II totals1175798155265

International

YearTeamEvent GPGAPtsPIM
1975Soviet UnionEJC53034
1976Soviet UnionWJC022
1981Soviet UnionWC856114
1981Soviet UnionCC72242
1982Soviet UnionWC81012
1984Soviet UnionOG7102122
1985Soviet UnionWC1057124
Senior totals4023174014

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dr/nikolay-drozdetsky-1.html. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418104611/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dr/nikolay-drozdetsky-1.html. dead. 2020-04-18.
  2. http://www.azhockey.com/index.html A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey
  3. http://www.chidlovski.net/1954/54_player_info.asp?p_id=d007 Team CCCP Players Info: Nikolay DROZDETSKY (Николай ДРОЗДЕЦКИЙ)