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{{Short description|Russian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox Ice Hockey Player
| image =  Vladimir Myshkin 1.jpg
| image_size = 
| caption = Myshkin in 2018
| position = [[Goaltender|Goalie]]
| catches = Left
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 7
| weight_lb = 154
| played_for = [[Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk]] <br>[[PHC Krylya Sovetov|Krylia Sovetov Moscow]]<br>[[HC Dynamo Moscow]]<br>[[Lukko]]
| ntl_team = URS
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|6|19|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kirovo-Chepetsk]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| draft = 
| draft_year = 
| draft_team = 
| career_start = 1977
| career_end = 1991
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's [[ice hockey]] }}
  {{MedalCountry | {{URS}} }}
  {{MedalCompetition | [[Ice hockey at the Olympic Games|Olympic Games]] }}
     {{MedalSilver | [[1980 Winter Olympics|1980 Lake Placid]] |}}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1984 Winter Olympics|1984 Sarajevo]] |}}
  {{MedalCompetition | [[Ice Hockey World Championships|World Championships]] }}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1979 World Ice Hockey Championships|1979 Soviet Union]] |}}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1981 World Ice Hockey Championships|1981 Sweden]] |}}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1982 World Ice Hockey Championships|1982 Finland]] |}}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1983 World Ice Hockey Championships|1983 West Germany]] |}}
{{MedalBronze   | [[1985 World Ice Hockey Championships|1985 Prague]] |}}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1989 World Ice Hockey Championships|1989 Sweden]] |}}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1990 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|1990 Switzerland]] |}}
   {{MedalBronze   | [[1991 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships|1991 Finland]] |}}
  {{MedalCompetition | [[1981 Canada Cup|Canada Cup]] }}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1981 Canada Cup|1981 Canada]] |}}
   {{MedalCompetition | [[IIHF World Junior Championship]] }}
   {{MedalGold   | [[1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|1974 USSR]] |}}
}}
'''Vladimir Semenovich Myshkin''' ({{langx|ru|Владимир Семёнович Мышкин}}; born June 19, 1955) is a Russian former [[ice hockey]] [[goaltender]]. He was a goaltender for [[HC Dynamo Moscow]] and the [[Soviet Union national ice hockey team]] in the 1970s and 1980s.

==Life and career==
Myshkin was born in [[Kirovo-Chepetsk]], [[Soviet Union]]. During his career in the [[Soviet Championship League]], Myshkin was consistently among the top goaltenders in the league and his Dynamo Moscow club was always among the best. However, rival Moscow club [[HC CSKA Moscow]] won the championship almost every year he played, including an amazing 13-year run from 1977 to 1989, preventing Myshkin from winning a domestic championship until his last year.

Myshkin came to prominence in the late 1970s when he earned a spot on the Soviet national team as a backup to the legendary [[Vladislav Tretiak]]. On February 11, 1979, he was the surprise choice of coach [[Viktor Tikhonov (ice hockey, born 1930)|Viktor Tikhonov]] to start in the deciding game in the [[1979 Challenge Cup (ice hockey)|Challenge Cup]] tournament against the [[National Hockey League]] all stars.  Myshkin responded with a sterling effort, shutting out the NHL stars 6-0 to win the Challenge Cup for the Soviets. A couple of months later, he won the [[1979 Ice Hockey World Championships]], the others coming in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, and 1990.

After Tretiak gave up two goals in the first period of  the famous ''[[Miracle on Ice]]'' game versus the [[United States national men's ice hockey team|USA]] in the medal round of the [[1980 Winter Olympics]], Tikhonov replaced him with Myshkin.  He faced only 2 shots in the second period, and stopped them both, but gave up 2 goals in the third scored by Americans [[Mark Johnson (ice hockey)|Mark Johnson]] and [[Mike Eruzione]].  Team USA won the game 4-3 and went on to capture the gold medal with the Soviets taking the silver.

In 1981, Myshkin was a member of the Soviet team that won the [[1981 Canada Cup|Canada Cup]], the only time [[Canada men's national ice hockey team|Canada]] failed to win the tournament. He played in one game and backed up Tretiak for the 8-1 victory in the final.

In 1984, he won his only [[ice hockey at the 1984 Winter Olympics|Olympic gold medal]], backing up Tretiak for the last time.

In his first major event as starting goaltender of the Soviet national team, he led the Soviets to a perfect 5-0 record in the round robin of the [[1984 Canada Cup]] by going 3-0 in his three starts before being defeated by Canada 3-2 in overtime in the semifinals. Nonetheless, Myshkin played spectacularly that game in a losing cause, being named the USSR's player of the game, and was named to the tournament all-star team.

At the [[1985 World Ice Hockey Championships]] Myshkin was selected for the first (and only) time as the starting goaltender of the national team. He backstopped them to a bronze medal after surprising medal round losses to Czechoslovakia and Canada, being the first time the Canadians beat the Soviet Union at the World Championships since 1961. The following year, the 31-year-old Myshkin was replaced by younger goaltenders [[Evgeny Belosheikin]] and [[Sergei Mylnikov]]. After 1985, he appeared in three more World Championships, but only as the team's third-string goaltender. In 1991 this was a largely sentimental gesture, as Myshkin had already announced he would retire following the season, and he backed up [[Andrei Trefilov]] and Alexei Marjin in the last World Championship in which the USSR would compete.

Myshkin's final season in 1990 would be a memorable one. First, he won the Soviet League championship for the only time in his career, as his Dynamo club ended CSKA's long championship reign and won its first title since 1954. Then at the World Championships, after watching his team's first nine games, he replaced [[Artūrs Irbe]] in very last game for the final 3 plus minutes of the shut out versus [[Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team|Czechoslovakia]] 5-0 and clinched the gold medal.

==Career Statistics==
===International===
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" ID="Table3" style="text-align:center; width:60em"
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Year
! Team
! Event
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | 
! GP !! W !! L !! T !! MIN !! GA !! SO !! GAA !! SV%
|-
| [[1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|1974]]
| [[Soviet Union men's national junior ice hockey team|Soviet Union]]
| [[IIHF World Junior Championship|WJC]]
| 3 || — || — || — || - || - || - || - || —
|-bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1979 Ice Hockey World Championships|1979]]
| [[Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team|Soviet Union]]
| [[Ice Hockey World Championships|WC]]
| 2|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 73 || 2 || 0 || 1.67 || .867
|- 
|  [[Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics|1980]]
| Soviet Union
| [[Ice hockey at the Olympics|OLY]]
| 5 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 260 || 9 || 0 || 2.08 || .896
|-bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1981 Canada Cup|1981]]
| Soviet Union
| [[Canada Cup|CC]]
| 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 60 || 7 || 0 || 7.00 || .787
|- bgcolor=
| [[1981 Ice Hockey World Championships|1981]]
| Soviet Union
| WC
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 60 || 1 || 0 ||1.00 || —

|-bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1982 Ice Hockey World Championships|1982]]
| Soviet Union
| WC
| 3 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 136 || 1|| 2 || 0.44 || .983

|- bgcolor=
| [[1983 Ice Hockey World Championships|1983]]
| Soviet Union
| WC
| 3 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 180|| 6|| 0 || 2.00 || .918

|-bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|  [[Ice hockey at the 1984 Winter Olympics|1984]]
| Soviet Union
| OLY
| 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 60 || 1 || 0 || 1.00 || -

|-
| [[1984 Canada Cup|1984]]
| Soviet Union
| [[Canada Cup|CC]]
| 4 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 252 || 6 || 1 || 1.43 || .940
|-bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1985 Ice Hockey World Championships|1985]]
| Soviet Union
| WC
| 10 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 580 || 13 || 1 ||1.34 || .936

|- bgcolor=
| [[1989 Ice Hockey World Championships|1989]]
| Soviet Union
| WC
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 5|| 0 || 0 ||0.00 || —
|-bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1990 Ice Hockey World Championships|1990]]
| Soviet Union
| WC
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 ||0.00 || —
|- bgcolor=
| [[1991 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships|1991]]
| Soviet Union
| WC
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||- || —
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan=4| Junior totals
! 3 !! — !! — !! — !! - !! - !! - !! - !! —
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan=4| Senior totals
!  33 !! 21 !! 5 !!2 !! 1669 !! 46 !! 4 !! 1.65 !! —
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Ice hockey stats}}
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060504072132/http://www.goaliesarchive.com/wha/soviets/myshkin.html Statistics]}}

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