Marián Hossa
Marián Hossa ( born January 12, 1979 in Stara Ľubovňa, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey player who currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.
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Career
Marián Hossa started his career in the Slovak junior league at HC Dukla Trenčín where he already was able to present his skills as a scorer with 91 points in 53 games. In the season 1996/97 he was a 17 -year-old already an integral part of the professional team of the Slovak Extraliga and came up with 25 goals and 19 assists. Since he was also one of the youngest participants played in the World Cup 1997 for the Slovak national team, he also attracted international attention, so he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1997 by the Ottawa Senators in the first round at position twelve.
Hossa then moved in the fall of 1997, after North America, where he was to undergo the following season with the Portland Winter Hawks of the Canadian Junior Football League WHL. Again, he could establish immediately and was with Todd Robinson and Brenden Morrow one of the leading players of the Winter Hawks. The team finished at the end of the regular season in first place in the league and Hossa had scored 45 goals in 53 league games and 40 more prepared. Even in the playoffs, he showed his good form, with 13 goals was the best scorer of the team that won the President's Cup at the end for a final victory against the Brandon Wheat Kings. Finally, also won the subsequent Memorial Cup tournament and Marián Hossa received after completion of the season several awards. He was appointed to the First All - Star Team at WHL, the CHL and the Memorial Cup finals and won the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy as the best rookie of the WHL.
After he was brought in his year in the WHL for a short time in the roster of the Ottawa Senators and had given his NHL debut, he was from the 1998/99 season to the root cadres of the team. However, already early in the season he suffered a knee injury, so he missed 22 games. Mainly it was used in his debut season in a defensive oriented formation, came at the end on 15 goals and 15 assist and was voted All- Rookie Team in the NHL as well as nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best Neuprofi.
1999/2000 he further developed his skills scorer and scored 56 points, which he was the third-best scorer of the team with his 29 goals, he led the entire team. However, Hossa was the season not only positive memories. In a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, he met the defenders Bryan Berard to the upper end of the stick in the eye accidentally. By failing Berard lost most of his vision in the affected eye, but could later return to the NHL.
As a result, Hossa developed increasingly becoming a leading player of the Senators and was in the following two seasons with 75 and 66 points to the best scorers in the team, giving him a first invitation to the 2001 NHL All-Star Game helped. After he had thus established itself in their team as one of the best players, he moved slowly and within the league to the top. In the season 2002/ 03 he was for the first time the top scoring player of his team with 45 gates fourth top scorer in the NHL, so he helped the team to the top spot in the regular season and winning the Presidents' Trophy. In the playoffs, he led the team with 16 points to the finals of the Eastern Conference, but where they failed at the New Jersey Devils.
In the 2003 / 04 season, Hossa set with 82 points on a new personal best, so that finished fifth rank of Evaluation scorer with 36 goals and sixth place in the scorer in the NHL. However, in the playoffs he could only partially come close to this shape and the Senators failed already in the first round.
As the NHL season was canceled in 2004/05 because of the lockout, Hossa moved to Europe, where he played the year at his hometown club HC Dukla Trenčín and in the Swedish Elitserien for Mora IK.
In the summer of 2005, he returned to Ottawa, where he extended his contract as a restricted free agent for three years on 23 August, but on the same day along with Greg de Vries transferred to the Atlanta Thrashers, who sent Dany Heatley to Senators. In Atlanta, he played in the 2005/06 season along with Marc Savard and Ilya Kovalchuk and the three of them led to the team. While they were in the individual ratings for points, goals and assists with the best players of the season and Hossa set a new personal record with 92 scorer points on, but the Thrashers missed qualifying for the playoffs.
2006/ 07 he played his personal best season for the first time and reached the mark of 100 points, which he sixth best scorer in the NHL, after he had even led the scorers score early in the season at times. In addition, the Thrashers qualified for the first time in its history for the playoffs. But Hossa was unable to repeat his performance of the regular season there, prepared only by one goal in four games and the team failed without a victory in four losses to the New York Rangers.
In the 2007/ 08 season Hossa weak start with just three goals and three assists in the first twelve games, but was then largely back to the old form back. Already during the first half of the season began managing the Thrashers with the negotiations for an extension of the end of the season expiring contract, but when the talks had come to the Trade Deadline February 26, 2008 to no result, they transferred Hossa and Pascal Dupuis to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Colby Armstrong, Erik Christensen, Angelo Esposito and a first-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2008 sent to Atlanta. While Hossa injured already on his debut for the Penguins, but returned after a two-week break back and was especially in the playoffs one of the most important players on the team. After victories over the Ottawa Senators, New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers, they met in the Stanley Cup final to the Detroit Red Wings. In the first two games, however, managed Hossa and the rest of the Penguins players not to achieve a single goal. In the remaining four games of the series, which Detroit was finally able to decide for themselves, Hossa headed but still with three goals and four assists. Overall, he was at the end with twelve gates and 14 assists in 20 games the third best scorer in the playoffs.
After the end of the season, the Penguins negotiated Although with Hossa on a new contract, but after no agreement could be reached, he was on 1 July 2008 an Unrestricted Free Agent and several teams courted his services. Finally, he signed a one-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings. It is worth noting that in the previous year's final series remake, he was back in the losing team after the final defeat in 2008 with the Pittsburgh Penguins against the Detroit Red Wings in 2009, but this time with the Red Wings.
After his contract expired in the summer of 2009, he signed a twelve- year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. With these he won in the 2009/10 season for the first time in his career, the Stanley Cup.
Internationally
Marian Hossa made his debut in the jersey of the Slovak national team in 1996 at the Junior European Championship and was in the following year, for the first time with the seniors on the ice. Seven times he played for Slovakia in the World Championships. 2002 and 2006, he took up at the Olympic Winter Games and comes in a total of eight Olympic hockey games on six goals and seven Assist for the senior team, he has played 59 international matches since 1997 and scored 56 points scorer.
Although Hossa stood at a total of 14 international tournaments on the ice, he could never win a medal and came only once over the quarter -finals when he and Slovakia finished fourth at the World Championships in 2004.
Awards and achievements
- 2004 NHL All-Star Game ( injury-related cancellation )
- 2006 puk Zlatý
- 2007 NHL All-Star Game
- 2007 puk Zlatý
- 2008 NHL All-Star Game
- 2008 puk Zlatý
- 2009 NHL Second All-Star Team
- 2010 Stanley Cup win with the Chicago Blackhawks
- 2012 NHL All-Star Game
- 2013 Stanley Cup win with the Chicago Blackhawks
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Slovakia at:
- U18 European Junior Championships 1996
- U20 World Junior Championships 1997
- U18 European Junior Championships 1997
- World Cup 1997
- U20 Junior World Cup 1998
- 1999 World Cup
- World Cup 2001
- 2002 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2004
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- World Championship 2005
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2006
- World Cup 2007
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2011
( 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 )
Family
Marián Hossa younger brother, Marcel Hossa, is also a professional hockey player. He was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 by the Montreal Canadiens in the first round at position 16 and was 2001, his NHL debut. By 2008 he was also active for the New York Rangers and the Phoenix Coyotes and played a total of 237 NHL games with 31 goals and 30 templates. He also played during the lockout in the 2004/05 season along with his brother in Mora IK in Sweden. In summer 2008, he signed a contract with Dinamo Riga of the KHL Eastern Europe. Her father František Hossa was a professional ice hockey player and since end of his career working as a hockey coach.