The Most Famous
HOCKEY PLAYERS from Ukraine
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Hockey Players. The pantheon dataset contains 364 Hockey Players, 3 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 14th most number of Hockey Players behind Norway and Belarus.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ukrainian Hockey Players of all time. This list of famous Ukrainian Hockey Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Alexander Almetov (1940 - 1992)
With an HPI of 42.50, Alexander Almetov is the most famous Ukrainian Hockey Player. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Alexander Davletovich Almetov (Russian: Александр Давлетович Альметов, January 18, 1940 – September 21, 1992) was an ice hockey player who played as a forward for HC CSKA Moscow and for the USSR Team.
2. Peter Bondra (1968 - )
With an HPI of 40.59, Peter Bondra is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Hockey Player. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Peter Bondra (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpeter ˈbɔndra]; born 7 February 1968) is a Ukrainian-born Slovak former professional ice hockey player. He was the general manager of the Slovakia national team from 2007 to 2011. A two-time 50-goal scorer, Bondra became the 37th player in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 500 NHL goals; he is one of five eligible 500-goal players not currently in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He has the fewest points among all players who reached that milestone, with 892, making him one of only two (with Maurice Richard) 500-goal scorers not on the list of NHL players with 1,000 points. Bondra scored the most goals in the NHL in two seasons, 1994–95 and 1997–98. He is one of the few players who scored five or more goals in one NHL game. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2016.
3. Ruslan Fedotenko (1979 - )
With an HPI of 29.63, Ruslan Fedotenko is the 3rd most famous Ukrainian Hockey Player. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Ruslan Viktorovych Fedotenko (Ukrainian: Руслан Вікторович Федотенко; born 18 January 1979) is a Ukrainian former professional ice hockey winger. A two-time Stanley Cup champion, in his National Hockey League (NHL) career he played for the Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins and the New York Rangers. Internationally, Fedotenko has competed for Ukraine in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as hockey players born between 1940 and 1979. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living hockey players include Peter Bondra and Ruslan Fedotenko. The most famous deceased hockey players include Alexander Almetov.
