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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov (Russian: Все́волод Миха́йлович Бобро́в, IPA: [ˈfsʲevələd bɐˈbrof]; 1 December 1922 – 1 July 1979) was a Soviet athlete, who excelled in football, bandy and ice hockey. He is considered one of the best Soviets ever in each of those sports.
Ice hockey was not properly introduced into the Soviet Union until the 1940s, though bandy, a similar game played on a larger ice field, had long been popular in the country. It was during a tour of FC Dynamo Moscow of the United Kingdom in 1945 that Soviet officials first got the idea of establishing an ice hockey program.
The KHL's Bobrov Division was formed in 2008 as part of the league's inauguration and is part of the Western conference since the second season of KHL when the conferences were established. It is one of 4 divisions. It is named in honor of Vsevolod Bobrov; storied ice hockey gold medalist for the Soviet Union and former CSKA and VVS player.
They scored 22 points (11 + 11) in seven games during the tournament and were the unit of measurement within the Soviet group. So they also won the final against Canada with 8–1. They also beat the best of the NHL in the 1979 Challenge Cup by winning the final, decisive game 6–0.
This is a category categorizing various articles pertaining to the Bobrov Division of the Western Conference of the Kontinental Hockey League. Pages in category "Bobrov Division" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Men's ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced as at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and added to the Winter Olympics when they began in 1924. [1] The Soviet Union participated in nine tournaments, the first in 1956 and the last in 1988.
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Bobrov was a former player who had played against Canada in the 1950s [31] and later managed the Soviet national soccer team and the Moscow Spartak ice hockey team. [32] Bobrov had been given the job as the Soviets' national ice hockey team coach, replacing long-time coach Anatoly Tarasov after the 1972 Winter Olympics. [32]