Aleš Hemský
Aleš Hemský ( born August 13, 1983 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey and inline hockey National player standing since March 2014 at the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Hemský played during his junior time for HC Pardubice, but early on, he moved to North America. Here he joined the Hull Olympiques in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. After a great season there, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2001 by the Edmonton Oilers in the first round as the 13th.
He stayed a year in Hull, before he made the jump to the NHL for the season 2002/ 03. In the first two seasons, he was a solid young player who further developed his potential steadily.
When the NHL went on strike for the 2004/05 season, he went back to his homeland again and played for his hometown club in Pardubice and won at the end of the season the Czech league title. In the same year he won the Czech national team to the title at the World Ice Hockey Championship 2005.
For the 2005/06 season he returned to the Oilers and was instrumental as top scorer of the team in ensuring that you just qualified for the playoffs. Here, the team managed to surprise a place in the finals. But with two goals and four assists in the final series, he could not prevent the defeat against the Carolina Hurricanes. At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006, he won in the course of this season with his national team the bronze medal.
A shoulder injury in the following season prevented him from reaching the 77 points from the previous year again. In July 2012, his six- year contract, for which he received a total of 24.6 million U.S. dollars ran out. He then signed a new contract for two years worth of 10 million U.S. dollars. Shortly before the Trade Deadline Hemský was issued on March 5, 2014 in exchange for two voting rights in the NHL Entry Draft in 2014 and 2015 to the Ottawa Senators.
In June 2008 he took part with the Czech Inline Hockey National Team at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and finished fifth.
Awards and achievements
- 2001 QMJHL All- Rookie Team
- 2001 CHL All- Rookie Team
- 2001 Trophée Michael Bossy
- 2002 QMJHL Second All-Star Team
- 2002 CHL Third All-Star Team
- 2003 NHL Rookie of the Month March
- 2011 NHL All-Star Game ( injury-related cancellation )
Internationally
- 2002 Best original donor of the U20 World Junior Championships (together with Jussi Jokinen )
- 2005 Gold medal at the World Championships
- 2012 bronze medal at the World Championships
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the Czech Republic at:
- U20 Junior World Cup 2002
- World Championship 2005
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2009
- World Cup 2012
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )