What is Pavel Datsyuk?
{{Infobox ice hockey player | shoots = Left | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 10.1 | weight_lb = 190 | team = [[SKA Saint Petersburg]] | former_teams = Spartak/Dynamo Yekaterinburg<br>[[Ak Bars Kazan]]<br>[[HC Dynamo Moscow]]<br>[[HC CSKA Moscow]] <br>[[Detroit Red Wings]] | league = [[Kontinental Hockey League|KHL]] | ntl_team = Russia | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|7|20}} | death_date = | birth_place = [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]] | draft = 171st overall | draft_year = 1998 | draft_team = [[Detroit Red Wings]] | image =Pavel Datsyuk 2012 (cropped1).jpg | career_start = 1996 | career_end = 2016 | website = [http://www.datsyuk13.com datsyuk13.com] |}} '''Pavel Datsyuk''' was born 20 July, 1978.<ref>[http://www.datsyuk13.com/biography.htm Official website: Biography]</ref> The city where he was born is named [[Yekaterinburg]] in [[Russia]]. He was a professional [[ice hockey]] player and played for [[SKA Saint Petersburg]]. He used to play in the [[National Hockey League|NHL]] for the [[Detroit Red Wings]]. ==Family== His mother died when he was 12 years old.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Datsyuk/Datsyuk_bio.html|title=JockBio: Pavel Datsyuk Biography|work=jockbio.com|access-date=2013-01-13|archive-date=2012-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719020451/http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Datsyuk/Datsyuk_bio.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the middle of the 1990s, he started to play for the farm team of Dynamo Yekaterinburg. There he was noticed by the new trainer of the team, Vladimir Krikunov. He saw the talent of the young Datsyuk on the soccer field. He noticed his anticipation, vision and intelligence were certainly over the average of the team. It took a long time before Pavel was contacted by an [[National Hockey League|NHL]] scout, because he was too small. He was only 1,73m and 66&nbsp;kg when he began his professional career. He was not supposed to be drafted in the [[National Hockey Lea