Clement on Fedorov

  By Bill Clement, NBCSports, Oct. 30, 2008, "Fedorov a truly unique talent":

What perhaps most rubs off on Ovechkin and Semin from Fedorov’s play is his commitment to team defense. He’s always been so responsible defensively and add to that the way he carries himself with such professionalism and his younger compatriots and other teammates have quite a role model in the 38-year-old.


A forward shifting to rearguard when his team is not on a power play is something almost never seen in the NHL and it’s quite a difficult transition but one Fedorov excels at. Ask most NHL forwards if they can play on the blue line and they will look at you like you are crazy. Not a chance, they’ll say, they won’t even consider trying it. Yet it seems to come naturally to Fedorov, which is a real testament to his greatness as an athlete.

I am so happy for Fedorov getting a lot of press lately. He finally found the team and teammates he wants to play for, the owner who has been his long time fan, GM, who mentioned that Fedorov was the only one who congratulated him on the trades he made...

A lot of Detroit fans didn't like it, but my opinion on him leaving Detroit was to change the scenery after his divorce with Kournikova, he left for less in pursue of happiness, but he couldn't find it until he finally arrived to DC. He is older and wiser, but he looks like young Sergei Fedorov nowadays. Good for him!


Fedorov! Couldn't stop him...