Valeri Karpov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian ice hockey player
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Place of Birth: Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
About Valeri Karpov
- Valeri Yevgenievich Karpov (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ??????, 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.
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