Former Red Wings forward Sergei Fedorov is owed $43 million by his former business partner, Joseph Zada, but as Zada either can not or will not repay Fedorov, the former Wing sued the Hyman Lippitt law firm--which represented both Zada and Fedorov at one point--in an attempt to actually receive the $60 million pay-off Zada had originally promised to pay Fedorov to settle their differences.



Subsequently, Fedorov's lack of finances yielded three bank foreclosures on two homes in Metro Detroit and one in Florida, and, according to LifeSports.ru, Fedorov received worse news today--and it's news that means that the nearly 41-year-old Fedorov, who played this past season for Metallurg Magnitogorsk, might have to continue his playing career to simply keep paying the bills:





Fedorov remains my "first favorite" Red Wing, and while I don't think that Wings fans will ever forgive him, his father, or his agent, Pat Brisson, for saying so many horrible things about his perceived worth and importance to the Red Wings during the nasty divorce which led to Fedorov's departure in 2003, I can at least hope that, one day, Fedorov might skate his last shift wearing Red Wings colors.