Boris Leonidovich Zapryagaev (russian: Борис Леонидович Запрягаев; 28 February 1922 – 20 April 2000) was a Russian
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
goaltender. Initially playing bandy, Zapryagaev later competed in ice hockey for
Krylya Sovetov Moscow
HC Krylya Sovetov (russian: link=no, ХК Крылья Советов; ''Soviet Wings'') is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. The team played in the top divisions of Soviet and Russian hockey.
In 2008, the team was expell ...
from 1947 to 1961, playing about 270 games for them in the
Soviet Championship League
The Soviet Hockey Championship (russian: Чемпионат СССР по хоккею) was the highest level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union, running from 1946 to 1992. Before the 1940s the game of ice hockey was not cultivated in Russia, i ...
. He received the title of
Merited Master of Sports of the USSR in ice hockey in 1954, and won the national championship in
1956-57. He later served as a coach for Krylya.
Boris Zapryagaev biography
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Zapryagaev also played association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
, suiting up for Perm (1941-1943), Krylya Sovetov Moscow (1943-1948), Torpedo Moscow (1949-1952), and Krylya Sovetov/Zenith Kuibyshev (1953).
References
1922 births
2000 deaths
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Soviet ice hockey goaltenders
Ice hockey people from Moscow
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