Valeri Karpov

Valeri Karpov
Born	(1971-08-05)5 August 1971 Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union
Died	10 October 2014(2014-10-10) (aged 43) Chelyabinsk, Russia
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	176 lb (80 kg; 12 st 8 lb)
Position	Right Wing
Shot	Left
Played for	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Traktor Chelyabinsk HC CSKA Moscow Metallurg Magnitogorsk HC Lada Togliatti HC Dynamo Moscow HC Mechel
National team	Russia
NHL Draft	56th overall, 1993 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Playing career	1988–2005

Valeri Yevgenievich Karpov (Russian: Валерий Евгеньевич Карпов, 5 August 1971 – 10 October 2014) was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League and National Hockey League. He competed for Traktor Chelyabinsk and HC CSKA Moscow in Russia before moving to North America. He was drafted 56th overall by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft and joined the team the next season, but struggled to maintain a place in the Ducks roster, bouncing around the minor leagues. He played 76 regular season games for the Ducks over three seasons, scoring 14 goals and 15 assists for 29 points, collecting 32 penalty minutes. He returned to Russia in 1997, spending three seasons with Metallurg Magnitogorsk, helping them win the RSL title in 1999. After spells with HC Lada Togliatti and HC Dynamo Moscow, he returned to Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2001, where he stayed for another four years. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993 and retired in 2005.

In the summer of 2014, during a brawl in his house he took a hit to the head and had a bad fall that resulted in a coma. He underwent two trepanning surgeries, but did not regain consciousness and died on 10 October 2014.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1988–89	Traktor Chelyabinsk	Soviet		5	0	0	0	0		—	—	—	—	—
1989–89	Metallurg Chelyabinsk	URS.2		26	7	9	16	8		—	—	—	—	—
1989–90	Traktor Chelyabinsk	Soviet		24	1	2	3	6		—	—	—	—	—
1989–90	Metallurg Chelyabinsk	URS.2		1	3	1	4	0		—	—	—	—	—
1990–91	Traktor Chelyabinsk	Soviet		25	8	4	12	15		—	—	—	—	—
1991–92	Traktor Chelyabinsk	CIS		36	13	9	22	26		8	3	1	4	6
1991–92	Mechel Chelyabinsk	CIS.2		4	1	0	1	2		—	—	—	—	—
1992–93	CSKA Moscow	RUS		9	2	6	8	0		—	—	—	—	—
1992–93	Traktor Chelyabinsk	RUS		29	10	15	25	6		8	0	1	1	10
1993–94	Traktor Chelyabinsk	RUS		32	11	19	30	18		6	2	5	7	2
1994–95	Traktor Chelyabinsk	RUS		10	6	8	14	8		—	—	—	—	—
1994–95	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		30	4	7	11	6		—	—	—	—	—
1994–95	San Diego Gulls	IHL		5	3	3	6	0		—	—	—	—	—
1995–96	Might Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		37	9	8	17	10		—	—	—	—	—
1996–97	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		9	1	0	1	16		—	—	—	—	—
1996–97	Baltimore Bandits	AHL		10	4	8	12	8		—	—	—	—	—
1996–97	Long Beach Ice Dogs	IHL		30	18	17	35	19		18	8	7	15	18
1997–98	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	RSL		34	11	14	25	20		4	3	3	6	0
1998–99	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	RSL		39	16	14	30	38		16	6	10	16	14
1999–2000	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	RSL		38	9	15	24	22		10	2	4	6	8
2000–01	Lada Togliatti	RSL		40	8	6	14	20		5	0	1	1	6
2001–02	Dynamo Moscow	RSL		19	2	7	9	6		—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	RSL		30	3	7	10	22		9	3	0	3	2
2002–03	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	RSL		50	10	20	30	32		3	0	0	0	0
2003–04	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	RSL		60	15	24	39	46		11	0	0	0	10
2004–05	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	RSL		42	6	9	15	20		5	0	1	1	4
2005–06	Mechel Chelyabinsk	RUS.2		28	10	4	14	34		—	—	—	—	—
2005–06	Traktor Chelyabinsk	RUS.2		21	5	10	15	16		13	4	9	13	4
Soviet/CIS totals				90	22	15	37	47		8	3	1	4	6
NHL totals				76	14	15	29	32		—	—	—	—	—
RSL totals				352	80	116	196	226		63	14	19	33	44

International

Year	Team	Event	Result		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1989	Soviet Union	EJC			6	2	2	4	6
1991	Soviet Union	WJC			7	0	4	4	2
1993	Russia	WC			8	4	5	9	0
1994	Russia	OG	4th		8	3	1	4	2
1996	Russia	WC	4th		8	3	0	3	8
1999	Russia	WC	5th		6	0	0	0	0
2001	Russia	WC	6th		7	3	0	3	4
2002	Russia	WC			9	4	2	6	22
Junior totals					13	2	6	8	8
Senior totals					46	17	8	25	36

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
• Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame bio