Ivan Droppa

Ivan Droppa ( born 1 February 1972 in Liptovsky Mikulas, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey player, who was last to 2010 when MHK Dolny Kubin in Slovakia's first league contract.

Career

Ivan Droppa began his career as a hockey player in the junior division of the TJ VSZ Kosice, for the first team he was in the first league, the highest Czechoslovak League, active from 1990 to 1992. Then he was four and a half years in the franchise of the Chicago Blackhawks under contract, who had chosen him already in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 in the second round than a total of 37 players. However, for the Blackhawks even he was only a total of 19 times in the National Hockey League on the ice. The entire rest of the time he spent at their farm team, the Indianapolis Ice of the International Hockey League. On 18 December 1996 he was finally transferred from Chicago to the Florida Panthers. For their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Carolina Monarchs, he scored in 47 games 26 scorer points, including four goals.

For the 1997/98 season Droppa returned to TJ VSZ Kosice of the Slovak Extraliga back. After a year he left the Slovaks and played a total of five years in the German Ice Hockey League for the Nuremberg Ice Tigers, Kassel Huskies and Düsseldorf EC. In 247 DEL inserts it, scoring 28 goals and gave 69 templates. The season 2003/ 04 spent the former Slovakian international at HC Slavia Praha and HC Litvinov in the Czech Extraliga. In the following season he was for the HK Liptovsky Mikulas in his hometown Slovak active before moving within the Extraliga for MsHK Žilina shortly before the season ends. With this in season 2005/ 06 he succeeded in winning the Slovakian championship.

Following the championship title with Žilina Droppa moved to HC Kosice, where he had begun his career. The 2008/09 season he began again when MsHK Žilina and finished it at the SERC Wild Wings in the 2nd Bundesliga. Most recently, the former NHL players played in the 2009/10 season for the Ours de Villard -de- Lans in the French Ligue Magnus, and the MIC Dolny Kubin in the second-class Slovakian 1st league.

Internationally

For Czechoslovakia Droppa took part in the European Junior Championships in 1990 and the Junior World Championships in 1991 and 1992 in part. For Slovakia, he ran in the World Championships 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001, as well as the World Cup of Hockey 1996.

Awards and achievements

• 2006 Slovakian champion with the MsHK Žilina

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)