Alexander Karpovtsev
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Alexander Karpovtsev (born April 7, 1970 in Moscow, USSR) is an ice hockey player. He played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Islanders and Florida Panthers. He is, along with Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Zubov and Sergei Nemchinov, the first Russian player to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup winning it in 1994.
While he was a very talented player, Karpovtsev had the reputation as being very "soft". He would routinely fake or exaggerate injuries in order to get out of playing, which was made famously public the day he was traded from the Blackhawks to the Islanders when the Chicago radio announcer went into a brutal tirade about him (http://www.umich.edu/~moday/karpotsev.mp3). Many believe he could have been one of the all-time greats but he simply didn't care about hockey.
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