Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov Net Worth is $10 Million
Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov (Russian: ???????? ?????????? ??????) (1 June 1960 – 6 June 2012), nicknamed The Tank, was a Soviet hockey forward. Together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, he was part of the famed KLM Line. He is considered one of the best hockey wingers of the 1980s.For the Soviet Union national team, Krutov won the 1981 Canada Cup, two golds (1984, 1988) and one silver (1980) in the Olympics, and six golds (1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990), one silver (1987), and one bronze (1985) in the World Championships.On the club level, Krutov played for CSKA Moscow from 1978 to 1989. He was one of the first Soviet players to make the jump to the NHL, doing so with the Vancouver Canucks in 1989. However, Krutov did not have a successful season, battling homesickness and weight problems.Krutov left the NHL after his lone season in North America and played for a number of smaller clubs before retiring to move into coaching. His son Alexei Krutov is also a hockey player and currently plays for Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg of the Kontinental Hockey League.In 2010, he was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.Krutov died in a hospital in Moscow on 6 June 2012, of internal bleeding and liver failure, just five days after his 52nd birthday.
He is survived by his wife, Nina and sons, Denis and Alexei.
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In 1989, he signed a three contract for the Vancouver Canucks for 2.3 million a year but left after a season for the Soviet Union. He later played for lower league teams in Switzerland and Sweden and was an assistant coach with his old Soviet Army team. He was director of a Sports School and inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.
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The Soviet Army Team drafted him into the military where they practiced 11 months a year, two or three times a days, and often confined men to a training camp even if they were married. He was a member of the junior world championship teams in 1978, 1979, and 1980 for the Soviet Union.
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He was awarded the Soviet Union Player of the Year in 1987 and was on many international all-star teams.
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He won Olympic Gold Medals as a Soviet Union Hockey player in the 1984 Winter Olympics (Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) and in 1988 Winter Olympic Games (Calgary Alberta, Canada. He was a member of the 1980 Soviet Union hockey team where they were defeated by the United States team (Lake Placid, New York) and received the Olympic Silver Medal.