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Дмитрий Филимонов
Дата рождения - 14 октября 1971 года
В 1990-93 годах играл за московское "Динамо" и
трижды становился чемпионом страны. Всего 125 игр, 9 голов, 11 передач.
В 1994-96 гг играл во вторых лигах США. В 1996-97 гг выступал в Финляндии,
в сезоне 1997-98 гг вернулся в Россию, где на протяжении следующего десятка
лет стал защищать цвета своего родного пермского клуба "Молот-Прикамье".
В 1991 выступал за сборную СССР на Кубке Канады
(5 матчей, 0+0). Чемпион Европы среди юниоров до 18 лет 1989 года (6 матчей,
3+0).
ПРЕССА:
The exhibition season may be meaningless, but all that happens
to certain young men on an early fall road trip is not.
Alexei Yashin, 19, stood in the hotel lobby holding a newspaper in one
hand, pointing with the other at the lead story of the day.
His constant companion, 21-year-old Dmitri Filimonov, stared hard but
could offer no help.
"What does this word `war' mean? Yashin finally asked a passerby.
He was told it means fighting. It means trouble. Possibly big trouble.
Yashin nodded, translated to Filimonov, and both continued to stare
at the paper the way all weekend long they have been watching CNN and CBC
Newsworld -- two young men desperately hoping for answers, but finding
none.
It had been a weekend of awkward separation for the two friends and
former teammates on Moscow Dynamo.
Forced apart from the rest of the Ottawa Senators by language and background,
they were separated further this trip by circumstance and reality.
The circumstance was what was taking place back in Moscow. While the
other Senators slept or lay in bed watching soaps or the Toronto-Ottawa
football game, the two young Russians walked the halls and stood in the
variety shop staring at headlines and watched live news reports until the
frustration of information that comes in another language forced them back
out into the halls to walk and talk some more.
The reality was that this weekend -- by pure fluke -- the Senators decided
to split the two so that they would begin more quickly the long and necessary
process of hockey assimilation. Instead of rooming together on the road,
Yashin was moved in with veteran Mark Lamb and Filimonov with, first, Brad
Shaw during the Sault Ste. Marie stop and then, in Thunder Bay, with Brian
Glynn.
When this was announced at the check-in counter, the shock on the face
of Filimonov -- so shy, with no English whatsoever -- was impossible to
miss.
The fact that they could no longer stay in their own room forced the
two friends into the halls and the lobby and the coffee shop where they
sat for long hours talking about what might be happening back home while
their teammates lay in the their rooms and talked about what might happen
against the Capitals.
They sat and worried over names like Yeltsin and Rutskoi and Khasbulatov
while their teammates worried, if at all, over names like Iafrate and Hatcher
and Cote.
Both worried
Neither has family in Moscow. Yashin comes from Sverdlovsk, Filimonov
from Perm. But both have many friends in Moscow from the past few years,
and both were very, very worried.
Yet they could do nothing with this worry. Yashin's father, Valery,
was not here to translate. And though they crowded close to the television
when CNN ran the Moscow broadcasts live, the instantaneous English translation
overrode the Russian and they could not follow.
"It is so confusing for us, Yashin said as he boarded the bus for the
ride to the rink that, for the moment, meant even less to two of the players
than the rest. "We don't know what is happening.
He tried to talk about what Boris Yeltsin was doing but he did not have
the words and others did not have the answers.
This simple, meaningless trip began early Friday morning in a hangar
at the Ottawa airport, the two young Russians waiting on a corner couch
for the flight to be announced, Filimonov asleep and Yashin dozing.
It ended late Sunday night with a long flight home, two young men sitting
up straight and awake, trusting that when they landed someone would be
able to tell what was going on back home, that everything was going to
be all right.
Two young rookies, who on a meaningless weekend road trip in preseason
discovered it may be more difficult to adapt to playing in the NHL off
the ice than on. |
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