I've been missing for the better part of ten years. Where have I been?
2007-09-03 09:31:24 · 26 answers · asked by Snoop 5 in Sports ➔ Hockey
The better question here would be...what the heck happened to Sergei Fedorov? While some players approaching 40 are still producing (Joe Sakic, Nick Lidstrom, Dominik Hasek, Mike Modano to an extent), Federov has fallen off the face of the earth in dramatic fashion. What happened?
2007-09-03 09:48:15 · update #1
Will the Real Sergei Federov please stand up?
Yes You, Standing, your answer?
"Yes I started my steller career in Detroit where we were winning, but then I started looking at the bling bling and decided to make more money in Anaheim, where I became a celebrity more than a hockey player. I dated Anna Kournikova , which was the highlight of my celebrity status. But my playing sucked (I was too worried about who was trying to date my woman), so then my contract (with all those millions) got traded to purgatory, I mean Columbus. Kournikova divorced me, and now I'm just an old injury-riddled 3-line center. on a team that is still 3-4 years away from being a real contender.
But At least I dated Kournikova!"
2007-09-03 09:52:51 · answer #1 · answered by nWo_Spon 3 · 16⤊ 0⤋
oh Snoop you had to diss my boy! I'm a big fan of his! I've met him serveral times!!
Detroit SC winner 3x and future HOF. Ducks one season ( the season we TANKED) 65 pts.
btw his marriage to Anna lasted less then 2 yrs..and that was ages ago when he was 28. The tramp left him for Pavel Bure, she divorced him nd now she's w/ Enrique Iglesias who btw will never marry her b/c she's a gold digger.
1991 to 07 the worst he's done was 42 pts on CBJ which is not al lhis fault b/c it's a sub par team. His average is ~ 63 pts. Solid. His best at 120 pts in 1994. Any team would be happy w/a player who can put up those numbers.
He didn't come to Anaheim for more money he came here b/c he wanted change and to contribute to the team. He's not a bad dude. Burke shipped him out b/c anyone who knows Burke knows he doesn't like Russians ( a flaw imo)
2007-09-03 14:44:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow! VipHockey hit it right on the head.
Remember when the depth down the center went
1. Yzerman
2. Federov
3. Primeau?
(All three were drafted by the wings so no big-spender comments).
Back then the Wings had such great teams that Federov always had a great supporting cast and so many scoring lines that the top defensemen couldn't single him out for extra coverage. Detroit offered him a good contract to stay and he rudely shut them out. We still have a soft spot for him but we will still boo him for this slight until the day he retires.
2007-09-03 13:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Fedorov had a problem with free agency and how it works. Only once in the last 10 years has he averaged a point a game (the year his contract was up in Detroit).
Fedorov and Holland never got along, and the tension grew worse after the Carolina debacle. It seemed after that, that Fedorov was an outcast in Detroit, yet he always showed up to play in the playoffs.
When he won the Hart trophy, it was like he was the NHL's future. Yet he didn't do a whole lot after that. The only all-star games he played in after 96 he was voted in. No more off-season mentions.
Heck, he had to wait 19 days to sign a free-agent contract
2007-09-03 10:24:53 · answer #4 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
You won everything there was to win early in your career and made a not-so-small fortune in the process.
Today, you play for a dead-end team with very little promise for turnaround before you hang up your skates for the last time. As such, you do the minimum that's asked of you and you enjoy the hell out of that aforementioned fortune that continues to grow.
South Beach is your playground and any toy a grown man can covet, you have access to. As long as you don't suddenly develop a need to be known as one of the greatest ever to wear an NHL sweater, you'll be just fine.
2007-09-03 15:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by zapcity29 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've been gettin' drunk on vodka in an old Red Army bunker alongside the career of fellow comrade Alexander Mogilny. It died a couple years ago, though, but thankfully I had company again a short time later in the careers of Sergei Samsonov and Nikolai Khabibulin.
2007-09-03 15:43:38 · answer #6 · answered by The Caseman 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi career, Sergei here, sorry buddy but I left you in Detroit along with the many fans that once loved me. But I'm down with that, besides, I like being a middle of the road kinda guy, it works out for me, I enjoy the many boos I get when I travel to the Joe, Hell, I even like the boos I get when the Wings travel to Nationwide.
I think I got the better end of the deal, I got to bang Anna a few times, and I even got more money, sh!t, I'm happy.
To me Money>winning!
2007-09-03 13:20:30 · answer #7 · answered by Wings Fan! 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Easy in Detroit he was the 2nd line center and used his incredible speed to abuse 2nd defense pairings while Stevie Y. took care of the big boys. He had the luxury of 1st line wingers and didnt have to deal with most of the outside stuff all the while Yzerman was the go to guy (fans, media, coaches....typical Captain duties). Suddenly he got what he thought he wanted...to be THE man but found that comes with all the pressure and expectations of being "The Man". Simply put...he wilted under the pressure like so many others do when the lights get real bright. Plus he didnt have someone like Bowman busting his chops and making him work hard after he left the Wings. Anna really had little to do with it....most of the NHL studs have hot girlfriends (and many enjoy plenty of the hockey groupies). He just wasnt meant to be "The Man" and lost his confidence when things didnt work out the way he planned. Welcome to the limelight Mr. Fedorov!
2007-09-03 13:37:56 · answer #8 · answered by viphockey4 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
And the segei says "vach you 'spectood, am 37 years old. 42 points am making for Columbus dis last years. You vant Gretzky, should be making me pick in first round and giving Sergei big big signing bonus not pidly Sheit giving 4'th round. Don't gonna be see no Snoops guys give Anna fuzzy balls for play."
2007-09-03 14:49:17 · answer #9 · answered by cme 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Wow, idiots are out to play today....
*ahem* Hi, Sergei! Hey, man, my confidence in EVERYTHING would hit rock bottom too if one of the hottest women in the world (you are the only man in the world who can say you deflowered her, by the way, and that makes you king of all men) dumped me for some Ricky Martin-wannabe. lol
Seriously, I think his ego just got the better of him. He wanted the Wings to be his team, the rest of Detroit didn't want that, so they shipped him to Anaheim. He thought he could have a team there, but no chemistry, so off to the crappiest team in the league, the Blue Jackets. No chemistry there either, and now he's just stuck. He needs to put his ego aside and play some team hockey....or at least try to remember how to play some team hockey.
2007-09-03 09:55:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋