Valeri Zelepukin

Infobox Ice Hockey Player
position = Left Wing
shoots = Left
team = Atlant Mytishchi
former_teams = New Jersey Devils
Edmonton Oilers
Philadelphia Flyers
Chicago Blackhawks
league = KHL
height_ft = 6
height_in = 0
weight_lb = 207
nationality = Russia
birth_date = birth date and age|1968|9|17|mf=y
birth_place = Voskresensk, USSR
draft = 221st overall
draft_year = 1991
draft_team = New Jersey Devils
career_start = 1984

Valeri Zelepukin (born September 17, 1968 in Voskresensk, Soviet Union) is a Russian ice hockey player who has played in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers and the Chicago Blackhawks between 1991 and 2001. He is 6'1"", weighs 200 lbs and shoots left-handed. Zelepukin was drafted 221st overall in the 11th round by the Devils in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft and went on to play 595 regular season games, scoring 117 goals and 177 assists for 294 points, he also picked up 527 penalty minutes. He won the Stanley Cup with the Devils in the 1994–95 NHL season. In 2002, Zelepukin returned to Russia where he currently plays for Mytishi Khimik.

Zelepukin's most important and famous goal, was when he tied the game with 7.7 seconds remaining in game 7 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals against the New York Rangers while playing for New Jersey.

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* [http://www.newjerseydevils.com/2005/html/history/stanleycup/names/images/1600/1995.jpgPicture of Valeri Zelepukin's Name on the 1995 Stanley Cup Plaque]