Milan BartoviÄ
Milan Bartovič ( born April 9, 1981 in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey player who is since January 2011, when the White Tigers Liberec in the Czech Extraliga under contract.
Career
Milan Bartovič began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior section of the HC Dukla Trenčín where he was active until 1999. He was then in the second round selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 as a total of 35 players from the Buffalo Sabres for which, however, he never played. Instead, he ran from 1999 to 2001 in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League for the Tri -City Americans and Brandon Wheat Kings on. From 2001 to 2005 he was in the American Hockey League for the Rochester Americans on the ice, where he came from 2002 to 2004 in a total of 26 games for their cooperation partners Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League action.
In the season 2005/ 06 Bartovič played in parallel for the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL and their farm team, the Norfolk Admirals in the AHL. He then returned to Europe, where in the Swedish Elitserien and the ZSC Lions he competed in the following season for Malmö Redhawks in the Swiss National League A. From 2007 to 2010, the national team was at White Tigers Liberec in the Czech Extraliga under contract by which he retired in his last year until the playoff semifinals.
For the season 2010/11 Bartovič was obliged Atlant Mytischtschi from the Kontinental Hockey League, but returned to the Czech Republic at the end of 2010 and signed a three-year contract with the White Tigers Liberec.
Internationally
For Slovakia Bartovič took at junior level at the U18 World Youth Championship in 1999, as well as the U20 World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001 in part. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the World Championships in 2006, 2009 and 2010. During the 2010 World Cup in Germany, he was first assistant captain of the national team.
Awards and achievements
Statistics
(End of season 2010/11)