Igor Valerievich Radulov (born August 23, 1982 in Nizhny Tagil

Nizhny Tagil

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, Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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) is a professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk

Metallurg Magnitogorsk

Metallurg Magnitogorsk is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 of the Kontinental Hockey League

Kontinental Hockey League

The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....

.

He was drafted by the NHL

National Hockey League

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's Chicago Blackhawks

Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...

 74th overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft

2000 NHL Entry Draft

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 and played 43 regular season games for the Blackhawks, scoring 9 goals and 7 assists for 16 points. After the NHL lockout, Radulov returned to Russia with HC Spartak Moscow

HC Spartak Moscow

HC Spartak is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:One of the sections of the Spartak Moscow sports club, HC Spartak Moscow was established in 1946...

. In 2006 he had short stints with Metallurg Novokuznezk of the Russian Superleague

Russian Superleague

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 and with HC Dmitrov

HC Dmitrov

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 of the Vysshaya Liga before signing with the Superleague's Vityaz Chekhov

Vityaz Chekhov

Hockey Club Vityaz is a professional ice hockey team based in Chekhov, Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League and are currently coached by former National Hockey League enforcer Andrei Nazarov...

. During the 2008-09 KHL season, Radulov signed with Salavat Yulaev Ufa.

Personal life

He is the older brother of Alexander Radulov

Alexander Radulov

Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists...

 who played in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) for the Salavat Yulaev Ufa

Salavat Yulaev Ufa

Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...

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