Sergei Viktorovich Starikov (born December 4, 1958 in Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:...

, Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

) is a Russian

Russians

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 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 coach, who competed as defenseman for the Soviet national team

Soviet national ice hockey team

The Soviet national ice hockey team , was the national hockey team of the Soviet Union. The Soviets were the most dominant team of all time in international play. The team won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament between 1954 and 1991 held by the International Ice Hockey Federation...

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Sergei Starikov won 9 national titles in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. Participating in 3 Olympic Tournaments, Sergei won 2 Gold and 1 Silver medal. He would appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

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, becoming one of the first Soviet players to wear an NHL

National Hockey League

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 uniform when he joined the New Jersey Devils

New Jersey Devils

The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

 in 1989 along with his friend and defensive partner from the Soviet team, Viacheslav Fetisov

Viacheslav Fetisov

Viacheslav "Slava" Alexandrovich Fetisov is a retired professional ice hockey defenseman...

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He lives in New Jersey

New Jersey

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 and currently is an instructor at The Rock Ice Pavilion

The Rock Ice Pavilion

Rock Ice is a modern sports facility with one full size sheet of ice, video games, full service café and hockey shop located in Dunellen, New Jersey...

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Sergei currently coaches Barys

Barys Astana

Hockey Club Barys is a professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. They compete in the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:...

 of the KHL

Kontinental Hockey League

The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....

 in Kazakhstan.
Sergei just signed a one year deal to be an assistant coach with HC Sibir Novosibirsk, a Russian hockey team in the KHL.

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