2. Born October 20, 1965 is a former amateur and
professional ice hockey goaltender. He played extensively
in his native USSR and Russia for HC Dynamo
Moscow and in North America, seeing time with the
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Edmonton Oilers, Phoenix
Coyotes and Florida Panthers. He was selected in the fifth
round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, 108th overall, by
Anaheim. He is a 2-time Olympian.
3. Olympic medalist
Mikhail Shtalenkov
Medal record
Men's ice hockey
Competitor for & Unified Team
Olympic Games
Gold
1992 Albertville
Ice hockey
Silver
1998 Nagano
Ice hockey
4. Shtalenkov began his major-league hockey career with Dynamo Moscow in 1986,
backing up veteran star Vladimir Myshkin. The team won the Soviet Championship
in 1990, ending the 13-year domincance of rival team CSKA Moscow, with
Shtalenkov and Myshkin splitting playing time almost evenly. Dynamo went on the
win the championship the next two years in 1991 and 1992, with Shtalenkov
entrenched as the starter. By the 1991-92 season, he was also the starting
goaltender on the Soviet national team.
5. Shtalenkov moved to North America in 1992, after
backstopping the Unified Team to the Olympic gold
medal, signing with Milwaukee Admirals of the
International Hockey League. After one season, he was
drafted 108th overall by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in
1993 and spent five seasons with the team. He originally
began with the IHL's San Diego Gulls, but received the
call-up to the Mighty Ducks after Ron Tugnutt was
traded to the Montreal Canadiens and Shtalenkov served
as back-up to Guy Hebert and would continue to do so
until the 1996-97 season.
6. During the 1997 Play Offs against Detroit he took over for Guy Hebert who
suffered an injury in Game 2 and performed very well forcing the Red Wings into
overtime in every game, facing 162 shots in the series. In Game 4 he registered
70 saves in a double overtime loss. Under new head coach Pierre Page he shared
the starting position in 97-98 playing a career-high 40 games. Shtalenkov was
claimed in the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft by the Nashville Predators but was
later traded to the Edmonton Oilers and never played for the Predators.
