Pavel Datsyuk was born in 1978 in Russia and played hockey for Dynamo farm club in the 1990s after his mother passed away when he was 12. He is 5'11", 194 lbs, and plays center while shooting left handed for the Detroit Red Wings. He won the Selke Cup three years in a row and the plus/minus award in 2008 while also being named to the NHL All-Star team in 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2011.