This past fall, The Hockey News published their Top 100 defencemen of all time special issue, with a closing column specifically listing Konstantinov as no.101 on the list, for what it’s worth. As it stands, three members of the Russian Five (Sergei Fedorov, Igor Larionov, and Vyacheslav Fetisov) are in the Hall, so I’ve included the remaining members of that group as well. Perhaps had Konstantinov, recently turned 30 at the time of the accident, been able to continue his career, he would be a more sure-fire Hall-of-Fame candidate, if not inducted by now. His name was engraved on the Stanley Cup when the Red Wings defended their championship in 1998, but he would never play again. 1997 saw his first Stanley Cup win, and the Red Wings’ first in 42 seasons, but only six days later he was in a limo accident that left him with extensive injuries. Konstantinov’s career ended with the highest of highs followed soon after by the lowest of lows. he was also capable of contributing offensively, cracking double-digits in goals in both 19, and hitting the 30-point mark in all but the 1991/92 and lockout-shortened 1994/95 seasons, including a career-high 38 points in 1997, finishing as the runner-up to Brian Leetch for the Norris Trophy. While known for his physical style of play. Konstantinov’s career was short, but he made a solid impact in that time. Internationally, he represented the Soviet Union, winning Bronze at the 1991 World Championships and Gold at the 1986 World Juniors and the 1986, 1989, and 1990 World Championships. He earned All-Rookie honours in 1992 and Second-Team All-Star honours in 1996. Konstantinov won the Stanley Cup in 19 with the Detroit Red Wings. Konstantinov scored 174 points (47G, 127A) in 446 games, as well as 19 points (5G, 14A) in 82 playoff games, for the Detroit Red Wings (1991/92-1996/97). =) It was pretty fun.Vladimir Konstantinov - Defence - 1991/92-1996/97ĭrafted in the 11th round, 221st overall, in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings, Konstantinov debuted during the 1991/92 season. Tall players have also a longer stick and a team of big guys can be made effective in this game too with very effective poking. But the game is fun and has quite a nice an engine. When playing on all-star level you only score mostly with onetimers & snap shots from the b-point, at least that felt the most frustrating and eventually bored me out at least. This, what you said is the problem with the game in my mind. Many years afterwards we would even come back to this as NHL2005 & 2006 were bad ones. We had a good community for this when we used to play this. Maybe I'm just bad though, I haven't played it a ton the skating is unique and passing is ok, but I hate games where scoring is either random or very few boring goal styles. Can you find any scoring consistency in this game? I'm not exactly an nhl game noob, but other than onetimers and weird angle slapshots goals seem to be very random.Įven onetimers aren't consistent and they're not very fun jammy goals.
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