Jiřà Šlégr
Jiří Šlégr ( IPA: [ jɪr̝i: ʃlɛ: GR ] / i; * May 30, 1971 in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia, Jiří Bubla junior? ) Is a former Czech ice hockey player ( defender ), who, in his career, among other things, for the Pittsburgh Penguins Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins played in the National Hockey League. Since summer 2009 he has worked as an assistant coach at HC Litvinov. He is the son of Jiří Bubla.
Career
Jiří Šlégr learned how to deal with Puck and bat in his hometown at the HC Litvinov and played his first premier league game in the 1987 / 88th Although he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 by the Canucks as 23 in the first round, he played until 1992, Litvinov. As a rookie, he scored for the Canucks in the 1992/93 season four goals and 22 assists in 41 games (with a plus / minus rating of 16 ), but was also used in some games the farm team in Hamilton.
The following season he played exclusively in Vancouver and scored 38 points scorer in 78 games. He was the third-best defender of the Canucks, but was nevertheless used in any game of the playoffs for the Stanley Cup.
In April 1995 he was transferred in exchange for Roman Oksjuta to the Edmonton Oilers where he stood until the summer of 1996 under contract. He then moved back to Europe in the Swedish Elitserien for Södertälje SK. In 1997 he returned to the NHL, but the Oilers had given him in exchange for a draft pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Penguins played Šlégr for three and a half seasons and thereby improved his game by shaped by the defensive tactics of the Penguins. His best offensive power he brought in the season 1999/2000 when he scored eleven goals.
After nearly four years with the Penguins, he was released to the Atlanta Thrashers, who traded it after a year, in March 2002, with the Detroit Red Wings against Yuri Butsajew and a draft pick. With the Red Wings, he won the 2002 Stanley Cup, even though he had only completed a play-off game. After only nine games in Detroit, he signed a contract in his hometown at the HC Litvinov. Shortly before the play-offs of the Super League, he was then taken by Avangard Omsk under contract.
In the summer of 2003 Šlégr signed as a free agent contract with the Vancouver Canucks, but he fell at coach Marc Crawford in disgrace, he was released after only 16 games to the Boston Bruins. In 36 games with the Bruins, he scored four goals and 15 assists. During the lockout in the NHL 2004/ 05 he was playing with his hometown club HC Litvinov and returned after the season back to the Bruins. In summer 2006, he signed a contract again when HC Litvinov, who loaned him in March 2007 to the EHC Biel to support this in the play-off final of the NLB and the relegation games.
From the summer of 2009, he was assistant coach for HC Litvinov. In March 2010, he ended his playing career after his home club was eliminated in the pre- playoffs.
Šlégr first became involved in local politics. 2010 Šlégr for the CSSD was elected to the Czech Chamber of Deputies. Together with his party colleague, former Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek Šlégr left in 2011, the CSSD Group and joined the Popular Socialists - on the left of the 21st century. On June 14, 2013 put Šlégr in protest against the unclean conditions of the current Czech politics his seat down.
Internationally
Early in the junior time began Jiří Šlégr, his home country (then Czechoslovakia ) to represent in international tournaments. He took part in the U20 World Cup U20 World Cup in 1990 and 1991 and won both times the bronze medal. In 1991 he was also awarded as the best defender - because of the performance shown he was nominated in the same year for the men's World Championships.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 he won the bronze medal with the Czechoslovak national team. Four years later he was called into the squad for the World Cup of Hockey in 1996, but the Czech team only reached a disappointing last place. A year later, at the 1997 World Cup, Jiří Šlégr but again won bronze with the Czech national team.
Its improved defensive performance, which he had developed with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Czechs then helped to win the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in 1998, where the Czech team surprised by an excellent defense.
Only in 2004 Jiří Šlégr was recalled to the national team and contested the 2004 World Championships and the World Cup of Hockey 2004. In spring 2005, he won the Czech national team the gold medal in the world championship. He had won all three major trophies ( Olympic, World Cup and the Stanley Cup) of hockey and has since been one of the prestigious Triple Gold Club.