Valeri Karpov

Valeri Yevgenievich Karpov (, 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.

Career statistics Regular season and playoffs Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1988–89 Traktor Chelyabinsk Soviet 5 0 0 0 0 — — — — — 1989–89 Metallurg Chelyabinsk URS.2 26 7 9 16 8 — — — — — 1989–90 Traktor Chelyabinsk Soviet 24 1 2 3 6 — — — — — 1989–90 Metallurg Chelyabinsk URS.2 1 3 1 4 0 — — — — — 1990–91 Traktor Chelyabinsk Soviet 25 8 4 12 15 — — — — — 1991–92 Traktor Chelyabinsk CIS 36 13 9 22 26 8 3 1 4 6 1991–92 Mechel Chelyabinsk CIS.2 4 1 0 1 2 — — — — — 1992–93 CSKA Moscow RUS 9 2 6 8 0 — — — — — 1992–93 Traktor Chelyabinsk RUS 29 10 15 25 6 8 0 1 1 10 1993–94 Traktor Chelyabinsk RUS 32 11 19 30 18 6 2 5 7 2 1994–95 Traktor Chelyabinsk RUS 10 6 8 14 8 — — — — — 1994–95 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 30 4 7 11 6 — — — — — 1994–95 San Diego Gulls IHL 5 3 3 6 0 — — — — — 1995–96 Might Ducks of Anaheim NHL 37 9 8 17 10 — — — — — 1996–97 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 9 1 0 1 16 — — — — — 1996–97 Baltimore Bandits AHL 10 4 8 12 8 — — — — — 1996–97 Long Beach Ice Dogs IHL 30 18 17 35 19 18 8 7 15 18 1997–98 Metallurg Magnitogorsk RSL 34 11 14 25 20 4 3 3 6 0 1998–99 Metallurg Magnitogorsk RSL 39 16 14 30 38 16 6 10 16 14 1999–2000 Metallurg Magnitogorsk RSL 38 9 15 24 22 10 2 4 6 8 2000–01 Lada Togliatti RSL 40 8 6 14 20 5 0 1 1 6 2001–02 Dynamo Moscow RSL 19 2 7 9 6 — — — — — 2001–02 Metallurg Magnitogorsk RSL 30 3 7 10 22 9 3 0 3 2 2002–03 Metallurg Magnitogorsk RSL 50 10 20 30 32 3 0 0 0 0 2003–04 Metallurg Magnitogorsk RSL 60 15 24 39 46 11 0 0 0 10 2004–05 Metallurg Magnitogorsk RSL 42 6 9 15 20 5 0 1 1 4 2005–06 Mechel Chelyabinsk RUS.2 28 10 4 14 34 — — — — — 2005–06 Traktor Chelyabinsk RUS.2 21 5 10 15 16 13 4 9 13 4 Soviet/CIS totals 90 22 15 37 47 8 3 1 4 6 NHL totals 76 14 15 29 32 — — — — — RSL totals 352 80 116 196 226 63 14 19 33 44

International Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM 1989 Soviet Union EJC 6 2 2 4 6 1991 Soviet Union WJC 7 0 4 4 2 1993 Russia WC 8 4 5 9 0 1994 Russia OG 4th 8 3 1 4 2 1996 Russia WC 4th 8 3 0 3 8 1999 Russia WC 5th 6 0 0 0 0 2001 Russia WC 6th 7 3 0 3 4 2002 Russia WC 9 4 2 6 22 Junior totals 13 2 6 8 8 Senior totals 46 17 8 25 36