Sergei Fedorov’s No. 91 belongs in the rafters at Little Caesars Arena

Sergei Fedorov played his last competitive hockey game nearly eight years ago. Then 44 years old, Fedorov appeared in two games with CSKA Moscow at the 2013 Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland. Fedorov also served at the time as the team’s general manager, a position he held until 2017; he rejoined to coach the club in 2021–22. Fedorov scored one goal in the tournament en route to CSKA’s finals loss to Genève-Servette HC, led by former NHLers Matthew Lombardi and Kaspars Daugavins (both of whom were ultimately named to the tournament all-star team). Prior to 2013, Fedorov had never appeared in a Spengler Cup game. His participation in that tournament — pulling double-duty as a player and executive, no less — added just another item to his already overstuffed hockey résumé, which, at the time, also included 1,179 points in 1,248 NHL games, three Stanley Cups, gold medals at the World Juniors and World Championships, two Olympic medals, and five trophy cases’ worth of additional honours. (He later went on to ad