Head coach of Moscow Dynamo and the Latvian national team. As a professional coach, he was behind the greatest leap of progress in the history of Russian hockey, leading HC MVD to 2010 Gagarin Cup final following the team's 18th-place showing in the 2008-09 season.
Head coach of Lokomotiv. He was the first foreign coach to lead a Russian hockey team and still is the most successful among them, having won two golds with Yaroslavl and one bronze. Coach for Team Jagr in the 2009 All-Star Game.
Head coach of Ak Bars. He is a back-to-back winner of the Gagarin Cup who also previously led Ak Bars and Moscow Dynamo to one championship apiece. He is one of just two coaches in the history of Russian hockey who managed to do that with two different teams.