Nikolai Drozdetsky
Russian ice hockey right winger
Died when: 38 years 164 days (461 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Nikolai Vladimirovich Drozdetsky (Russian: Николай Владимирович Дроздецкий, 14 June 1957 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian ice hockey right winger.
He played for SKA Leningrad in 1974–1979, then for HC CSKA Moscow from 1979 until part way through the 1986/87 season, when he played again for Leningrad, until 1989.
He finished his career with Borås HC in Sweden, where he played in 1989–1995.He was named most valuable player of the Soviet elite league in 1984.
He scored 252 goals in 503 league games and 64 goals in 109 international games with the Soviet national team.Drozdetsky played on the Soviet national team in 1981, 1982, 1984, and 1985, which won the IIHF World Championships in 1981 and 1982, the Olympic gold medal in 1984, the 1981 Canada Cup, and the 1981, 1982, and 1985 European championships.
He was the top goal scorer at the 1984 Olympics with ten goals in seven games, and also led the Soviet team with 12 points.
He died from complications of diabetes.