Biography of Kamensky Valeria

Born on April 18 in Voskresensk, Moscow Region. Soviet and Russian hockey player left extreme striker.

Olympic champion three -time world champion, the holder of the Stanley Cup Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Valery Kamensky was born on April 18 in Voskresensk, Moscow Region. He began in his native Voskresensk at the school of a local "chemist". At the age of 16, he made his debut in the championship of the USSR, this happened on March 15 in the year in the guest match with the Moscow Dynamo.

He recalled: “You would see how the veterans of the“ Chemist ”were happy then, who gave the team more than one season. In M I was a very young guy, and, apparently, the senior comrades from above decided that everything was ahead of me, and therefore they did not pamper the medal.” From the year he began to play for CSKA. In the main national team, the USSR made his debut in the same M - at the Moscow World Cup, where Viktor Tikhonov invited the debutant, won gold with the team.

For Kamensky, he said, that tournament became unforgettable: "In the future, I have repeatedly performed at the world championships and Europe, but that Moscow success is most memorable to me." In the championships of the USSR, he played games, scored a goal and made 96 programs. The best hockey player of the Soviet Union of the year. He won the Olympic gold of Calgary in the year.

The medal “For Labor Valor” Valery Kamensky in his youth in the year was chosen under the general number of Kvebek Nordix club. In the year at the World Cup in Switzerland, Kamensky in response to the rudeness of the Swedish defender Ulf Samuelsson, he hit him in the forehead. This was the first case of such a violation at the highest level, after which the rules were amended - for such a violation of 10 minutes of fine and removal until the end of the match.

For the USSR national team, I scored 81 puck in games. Although the first wave of departures in the NHL was accompanied by scandals, Kamensky was lucky: in the m year, when the national team was preparing for the Canada Cup, he broke his leg in the game with the Swedish national team. The injury was so severe that the hockey player did not play for six months. And in the end, no one paid much attention to his departure for the ocean.

In years, he played for Quebec Nordix later moved to Denver and changed his name to Colorado Evelansh. In years he played for Colorado Evelansh. This goal was recognized as the most beautiful in the whole league that season. The defender of Colorado Alexei Gusarov in the center entered with the puck in the defense zone of Florida. Having stretched out two defenders - Sirel and Murphy, Alexei waited for Kamensky's jerk on the left flank.

When Valery traveled to Sirel and jumped out onto the Piglet, Gusarov provided him with a puck with a dagger gear. Having received a pass, Kamensky, to the complete bewilderment of the goalkeeper Vanbisbruck, did not immediately attack the gate, but sharply turned into degrees and only then sent the puck between the shields of the dumbfounded guard of the gate. This goal for a long time was losing the local TV, and it was recognized as the most beautiful in the season.

In years - the player "New York Rangers". In years he played at Dallas Stars. In M, he moved to New Jersey, where he was called by Vyacheslav Fetisov, who at that time worked there as a coach. He wanted to continue the project of Scotti Bowman to organize a purely Russian five, as in Detroit. The three Nemchinov - Brylin - Kamensky scored the most, they had magnificent indicators. But the rest of the team did not play.

In the year he returned from the NHL to his native Voskresensky “Chemist” 18 years after leaving. He completed his career in Voskresensk in the year. The winner of the prize to the best playing veteran-mentor of the year. During his career, I received many injuries: “The kidneys were repulsed, I broke my leg twice, I still wear my hand in the right forearm of eight bolts.

Broken fingers, I don’t count the dissection,” the athlete said. Valery Kamensky is one of the seven Russian hockey players who managed to win Olympic gold, the gold of the World Cup and the Stanley Cup and enter the so -called “triple Golden Club”. Moreover, after the victory in the Stanley Cup in the “Colorado Evelansh” Kamensky, together with Alexei Gusarov, was the first Russian and the first not Shrend who entered this club.

He is the president of the hockey federation of the Moscow Region, also a member of the Board of Directors of the Continental Hockey League, the Vice President of the KHL for Development, the chairman of the KHL sports and disciplinary committee, a member of the Council of Legends of the Night Hockey League, the curator of the Volga Conference. From the year he has held the position of vice president of HC Spartak Moscow.

Together with the musician Sergei Roldugin, conductor Yuri Temikanov, Ballerina Svetlana Zakharova, skater Alexander Gorshkov, mathematicians Ivan Yashchenko and Stanislav Smirnov, is the founder of the Talent and Success Foundation, created on the basis of the Sirius Educational Center. The growth of Valery Kamensky: centimeters. Personal life of Valery Kamensky: son - Victor Rod.

The daughter is Polina, the only one in the family who has American citizenship. Children studied in the USA. There is Anastasia’s granddaughter, she lives in the city of Omsk. Sports achievements of Valery Kamensky:.