Aleksey Nikiforov

Aleksey Nikiforov (born 27 April 1957) is a Lithuanian ice hockey coach and former player for Dinamo Riga. He is the father of Quad City Storm winger Vladimir Nikiforov. He resides on Long Island and coaches in Hauppauge, New York.

Early life Nikiforov was born in 1957 in Vilnius, Lithuania, to a military family. They later relocated to Riga, Latvia, and there he started playing ice hockey around the age of 7. Nikiforov's first ice hockey stick "consisted of two broken pieces his father scavenged from a local rink and screwed, then taped together." His skates "were bought by his mother on the Soviet Union's black market." Nikiforov also runs ice hockey camp and clinics at the Rinx.

Although much of his time since the 1980s has been spent in the United States, Nikiforov has frequently returned to Lithuania, Darius Kasparaitis Dainius Zubrus Tony Romano Vladimir Malahov Brian McCabe Eric Nystrom Ryan Vesce James Marcou Alexei Yashin Dana Trivigno Uwe Krupp Bobby Trivigno