The Most Famous
HOCKEY PLAYERS from Kazakhstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kazakhstani Hockey Players. The pantheon dataset contains 364 Hockey Players, 2 of which were born in Kazakhstan. This makes Kazakhstan the birth place of the 16th most number of Hockey Players behind Ukraine and Austria.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kazakhstani Hockey Players of all time. This list of famous Kazakhstani Hockey Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Boris Alexandrov (1955 - 2002)
With an HPI of 37.20, Boris Alexandrov is the most famous Kazakhstani Hockey Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Boris Viktorovich Alexandrov (Russian: Борис Викторович Александров; November 13, 1955 — July 31, 2002) was a Soviet and Kazakh professional ice hockey player. Alexandrov competed for Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk in 1972-1973 and in 1982-1996, and for CSKA Moscow from 1973 to 1978. He became USSR Champion in 1975, 1977 and 1978. He was posthumously inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2019.
2. Evgeni Nabokov (1975 - )
With an HPI of 34.56, Evgeni Nabokov is the 2nd most famous Kazakhstani Hockey Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Yevgeni Viktorovich Nabokov (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Набо́ков; born July 25, 1975) is a Kazakhstani-Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the San Jose Sharks, New York Islanders, and Tampa Bay Lightning of National Hockey League (NHL) and for Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk, Dynamo Moscow, Metallurg Magnitogorsk and SKA Saint Petersburg of the Russian Super League (RSL) and Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) from 1991 to 2015. Nicknamed "Nabby", Nabokov, who was selected 219th overall 1994 NHL Entry Draft by San Jose, was regarded as one of the top goaltenders in the NHL, winning the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best first-year player in 2001 and was voted a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as best goaltender in 2008. He departed the NHL for the first time in 2010 to play for SKA Saint Petersburg in Russia, but returned soon after, and concluded his career in the NHL. After retiring as a player Nabokov took up a role as a development coach for the Sharks, and in 2019 was named the goaltending coach for team. In his first nine seasons in the NHL, all with San Jose, Nabokov became the team leader in nearly every goaltending category, including games played, wins, and shutouts. At his retirement, he had the eighteenth most all-time NHL regular season wins. During a game in 2002 he scored a goal, the seventh goalie in NHL history to do so, and the first not from North America. Born in the then-Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, Nabokov first played internationally with Kazakhstan at the 1994 World Championships Group C. However, he later joined the Russian national team, and played for them from 2006, including both the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, winning a gold at the 2008 World Championships.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as hockey players born between 1955 and 1975. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living hockey players include Evgeni Nabokov. The most famous deceased hockey players include Boris Alexandrov. As of April 2022, 1 new hockey players have been added to Pantheon including Boris Alexandrov.
