A native of Ural hockey, Pavel Datsyuk is one of the most technical and intelligent center-strikers in modern hockey. Despite the significant age for elite sport (36 years), Pavel Datsyuk still manages to show outstanding hockey in the most prestigious league in the world - NHL.
Pavel Datsyuk began his overseas career in the 2001-2002 season with the Detroit Red Wings. It is noteworthy that Pavel still defends the colors of this hockey club, being an alternative team captain (assistant captain).
In total, Pavel Datsyuk spent 13 seasons in Detroit, in which he played 860 matches in the NHL regular season. The performance indicator in these meetings is 839 points (287 goals scored + 552 assists). Given that Pavel is a defensive striker, such statistics simply cannot fail to impress.
The most productive seasons for Pavel were the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 seasons. During these years, Datsyuk scored 97 points for matches in the NHL regular championship (31 + 66 and 32 + 65, respectively).
The general indicator of Pavel Datsyuk's usefulness is + 235. It should be borne in mind that Pavel often defends himself in the minority.
Pavel Datsyuk's team played in the playoffs for 12 seasons. In the relegation matches, the striker had 145 meetings, in which he scored 108 effective points (39 + 69) with a usefulness indicator of +35.
It must be said that Pavel Datsyuk is a two-time Stanley Cup winner (2002 and 2008). The outstanding performance of the Russian central striker has received numerous personal awards from the NHL. Thus, Pavel received prizes for the best defensive striker, a trophy awarded to the player with the most gentlemanly behavior at a high level of play, as well as the prize of the hockey player with the best utility in the regular season. In 2011 and 2013, Pavel received the prize for the best Russian hockey player in the NHL.
