Hockey player Sergei Zubov: biography, achievements, coaching

Sergei Aleksandrovich Zubov fans know as an athlete with a world-wide reputation, who has several impressive awards in his moneybox, which not every hockey player can boast in his career. Quite an interesting fact of his biography is that the athlete played hockey up to forty years, with all the most significant events in his life occurred before reaching the age of twenty-four years.

Biographical data from the life of a hockey player

Sergei Alexandrovich Zubov was born in Moscow on July 22, 1970. The first coach of the young athlete was Boris Shtan'ko. Zubov's sports career began with the game for CSKA Moscow. The hockey player spent four years in this club - from 1988 to 1992. During this time, he managed to score seventeen goals and make nineteen games. In all for the army Sergei Zubov was played one hundred and sixty-three games.

Next, in 1992, began for a hockey player with a real breakthrough. Eighteen-year-old Sergey Zubov, unlike his peers, managed to achieve incredible heights. As an adult, he became the champion of the Soviet Union, stepping on the ice shoulder to shoulder with the famous stars of world hockey. On ice, Sergei was in the combined team of Viktor Tikhonov. The Olympics became for Zubov the first and last in his sports career. After some time in the strong team Sergei Zubov successfully performed at the youth championship - the guys got gold.

At the age of twenty-one young hockey player Sergei Zubov was in the first team. He played six matches for the Russians at the World Cup. And four years later, in 1996, he took part in four matches in the World Cup. After the World Cup for the Russian team, the player did not go to the ice anymore.

Sports career in the NHL

The first game in the NHL in the "New York Rangers" was held on December 6, 1992. Record for the young athlete was the result of eighty-nine points for the 1993-1994 season. He became the best player in performance.

The next time Zubov scored in the 86th NHL Championship. In the game "Dallas" - "Anaheim" just a few minutes after it began, he threw the first puck, than in the future earned the love and respect of many fans.

Due to a serious injury in the 2008-2009 season, Sergei managed to hold only ten matches. For a year he managed to make about four gears. After that, the last time he went to the ice in November 2008. It was a game against the famous San Jose Sharks team.

A year later, the former NHL legend signed a contract with another base. A new "home" for him was the Continental Hockey League SKA. Along with the SKA League, Zubov received several "hot" offers from NHL clubs, which he successfully rejected in favor of the last step on his career ladder as a player.

At home, all this time Sergei almost did not appear until a few years did not come directly to the SKA. Initially, he did not want to go to the national team for personal reasons, and after that a number of unfavorable circumstances prevented him.

Before Eurotour in Vancouver in 2010, Zubov considered offering him the place of a spare player with a natural spittle in the face. The hockey player admitted that he really wanted at least once again to play for the national team, but, unfortunately, this was never to come true.

Main Achievements

Sergey Zubov is a hockey player who has many achievements and awards in his arsenal. Among his main achievements it is necessary to distinguish the following:

• 1988-1989 - hockey player became the absolute champion of the Soviet Union in the 1988/1989 season.
• 1989 - Zubov received the honorary title of world champion among the youth.
• 1992 - the Russian hockey player was awarded the honorary title of Olympic champion.
• 1994 - winner of the Stanley Cup.
• 1999 - two-time winner of the Stanley Cup.

Cognitive statistics game hockey player Sergei Zubov

Sergei Zubov is a hockey player who, during his career in the NHL, played more than a thousand matches, or more precisely, one thousand fifty-eight. During this time, the athlete scored seven hundred and seventy-one points. This is one hundred and fifty two washers and six hundred and nineteen gears.

Among all the famous domestic hockey players, defenders Zubov takes the honorable first place in terms of the number of points and gears. By the number of abandoned pucks the athlete takes the second place. The first place went to Sergei Gonchar. He scored one hundred and ninety-one goals.

Also, Zubov takes second place and in relation to the number of matches held. In the first place was athlete Alexei Zhitnikov with a result in one thousand eighty-five games played.

In the history of NHL games, the star of Russian and world hockey is in the eighteenth place in terms of the number of points scored in defense. By the number of abandoned pucks, Sergei Zubov is on the thirty-first place. At the sixteenth place in the NHL hockey player is held by the number of perfect transfers.

Coaching work of Sergey Aleksandrovich Zubov

Sergei Zubov - SKA coach. The decision to end the games as a defender for him was not easy. Unable to get on the ice in the new season after a serious injury, the athlete completed his sports career and since 2011, Sergei Zubov - SKA coach.

Two seasons in CSKA was preceded by a year of coaching in St. Petersburg. Subsequently, the former athlete again returned to St. Petersburg. Under his strict guidance, CSKA managed to win the Gagarin Cup. All this time Sergey Alexandrovich specialized in working with defense players.

Since July 2015, Sergei Zubov - coach of the Russian team. A huge game experience should help the new coach of the national team prepare the guys for victory at the upcoming 2018 Olympics.

Personal life of the Russian coach with a world-wide name

What other hobbies is a great coach, except for hockey? Sergey Zubov loves his family very much and devotes a lot of time to it. Sergei Alexandrovich has a wife Irina, as well as children - the son of Pasha and daughter Nastya. Free time Zubov SA prefers to spend on fishing or watching the matches of your favorite basketball teams.