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{{Infobox ice hockey player
| position = [[centre (ice hockey)|Centre]]
| shoots = Right
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 5
| weight_lb = 229
| team = [[Barys Astana]]
| league = [[Kontinental Hockey League|KHL]]
| ntl_team = Russia
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|7|26|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| career_start = 1995
| draft = 65th overall
| draft_year = 1996
| draft_team = [[Florida Panthers]]
| image = 
| image_size = 230px
| former_teams = [[Atlant Moscow Oblast]]<br />[[Traktor Chelyabinsk]] <br />[[Phoenix Coyotes]]<BR>[[New York Islanders]]<BR>[[Florida Panthers]]<br> [[Vityaz Chekhov]] <br />[[Severstal Cherepovets]]<BR>[[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]
}}
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[Ice hockey at the Winter Olympics|Ice hockey]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Salt Lake City]] | [[Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Team]]}} 
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'''Oleg Vladimirovich Kvasha''' ({{lang-ru|Олег Владимирович Кваша}}; born July 26, 1978) is a [[Russia]]n professional [[ice hockey]] [[forward (ice hockey)|forward]] currently playing for [[Barys Astana]] of the [[Kontinental Hockey League]] (KHL).

==Playing career==
Kvasha was chosen in the third round, 65th overall, by the [[Florida Panthers]] in the [[1996 NHL Entry Draft]]. On June 24, 2000, he was dealt by the Panthers to the [[New York Islanders]] with winger [[Mark Parrish]] for goaltender [[Roberto Luongo]] and center [[Olli Jokinen]]. After playing with the Islanders for five seasons, Kvasha was traded along with a conditional fifth round draft pick to the [[Phoenix Coyotes]] for a third round pick in the [[2006 NHL Entry Draft]] on March 9, 2006.

What could have come out of Kvasha's NHL career, remains a giant unknown. A being of superhuman talent, with long flowing goldie locks he spent many of his efforts, both physically and mentally on curing the world of all evil, poverty, hunger and pollution. While his NHL numbers represent a huge "what could have been", the state of the world, had Kvasha never been present, is an infinitely more haunting scenario.

==International play==
Kvasha has represented his native [[Russia]] in the [[2002 Winter Olympics]], where he won a bronze medal.

==International statistics==
{| BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="3" CELLSPACING="0" width=40%
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Year
! Team
! Event
! Place
! ALIGN="center" rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! GP
! G
! A
! Pts
! PIM
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[1997 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|1997]]
| Russia
| [[IIHF World U20 Championship|WJC]]
| {{bronze3}}
| 6
| 2
| 0
| 2
| 4
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1998 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|1998]]
| Russia
| WJC
| {{silver2}}
| 7
| 4
| 2
| 6
| 4
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="4" | Junior Int'l totals
! 13
! 6
! 2
! 8
! 8
|- ALIGN="center"  
| [[Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics|2002]]
| Russia
| [[Ice hockey at the Olympic Games|Oly]]
| {{bronze3}}
| 5
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|- ALIGN="center"  bgcolor="#f0f0f0" 
| [[2004 World Cup of Hockey|2004]]
| Russia
| [[World Cup of Hockey|WCH]]
| 5th
| 2
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 0
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="4" | Senior Int'l totals
! 7
! 0
! 1
! 1
! 0
|}

==External links==
*{{hockeydb|29094}}
*{{Eurohockey|10524}}
*{{nhlprofile|8465018}}

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[[Category:1978 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Barys Astana players]]
[[Category:Beast of New Haven players]]
[[Category:Florida Panthers draft picks]]
[[Category:Florida Panthers players]]
[[Category:Atlant Moscow Oblast players]]
[[Category:HC CSKA Moscow players]]
[[Category:Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:New York Islanders players]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Russia]]
[[Category:Olympic ice hockey players of Russia]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in ice hockey]]
[[Category:Phoenix Coyotes players]]
[[Category:Russian ice hockey centres]]
[[Category:Severstal Cherepovets players]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Moscow]]
[[Category:Traktor Chelyabinsk players]]
[[Category:HC Vityaz players]]
[[Category:Avangard Omsk players]]
[[Category:HC Spartak Moscow players]]

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