Jiřà Hudler
Jiří Hudler ( born January 4, 1984 in Olomouc ) is a Czech ice hockey player in the position of winger who stands since July 2012 with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Jiří Hudler began his career in 1997 in the U18 team of HC Vsetín in the Czech Republic. Already in its second season, he was able to achieve 114 points in 46 games, so he has already been included in the U20 squad of Vsetín after the season at the age of 15 years. In the season 1999/2000 he was able to convince the same at the U20 Junior and was even allowed twice for the professionals in the Extraliga on the ice.
Inserts for the U20 team were in season 2000/ 01 fewer, but more and more with the pros. In that year he played for Vsetín and for the HC Havířov Panthers in the Extraliga. 2001/ 02 he managed finally to break with the professionals of Vsetín and achieved 46 points in 46 games. He also won the bronze medal with the Czech national team in the age group U18 Junior World Championships.
In North America, we became aware because of its good performance and Hudler as one of the players who were in the NHL Entry Draft 2002 selection. Hudler was selected in the second round at position 58 of the Detroit Red Wings.
The season 2002/ 03 he completed then at his hometown club HC Vsetín and Russia at Ak Bars Kazan. Hudler also came at the 2003 World Cup for the Czech Republic to use, where to but just missed out on a medal.
In the summer of 2003, he then moved to North America where he contested the 2003/04 season mainly in the Grand Rapids Griffins, the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings in the American Hockey League. But he must also collect first NHL experience when he came in twelve games for use and even scored a goal.
As the NHL season 2004/ 05 failed because of the lockout, Hudler returned once to his hometown club HC Vsetín back, then denied but the majority of the season in the AHL with Grand Rapids. 2005/ 06 Hudler played only four times in the NHL, but was the third best scorer in the AHL with 96 points ( 36 goals, 60 assists) in 76 games.
The Red Wings extended his contract in the summer of 2006 by one year and received him in the NHL squad. Hudler came mainly in the third or fourth attack range for use and scoring 15 goals and ten assists. Towards the end of the season and in the playoffs he was temporarily removed from the squad, as with Kyle Calder and Todd Bertuzzi experienced attacker had been committed.
In July 2007, his contract was extended for two years and Hudler returned again as a regular force in the squad of the Red Wings, where he played with 13 goals and 29 templates a compelling season. In the playoffs, he was indeed used only in the fourth forward line, but he could put his skills as a scorer to the test. In the 22 playoff games, he scored five goals and prepared nine goals, which he was fifth- best scorer of the team. He scored his most important goals in the final series against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the fourth game, when he contributed the decisive goal to make it 2-1 and Detroit thereby laid the foundation for winning the Stanley Cup.
After his contract expired in the summer of 2009 Hudler became a restricted free agent. Since he was not satisfied with the contract offer the Red Wings, the NHL arbitration was turned on. A few days later Hudler signed a contract with HK Dynamo Moscow. Then called USA Hockey and the National Hockey League Players' Association to the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF to investigate this transfer. Mid-September 2009 decided this, that the transfer is legally valid, since Hudler had no active NHL contract at the time of signature in Moscow. After a year in the Kontinental Hockey League and the re-establishment of OHK Dynamo Hudler returned to the Red Wings. On 24 May 2010 he signed a doped with 5.75 million U.S. dollar two-year contract in Detroit. After the end of the contract, he moved in July 2012 to the Calgary Flames.
Due to the NHL lockout Hudler completed in September 2012 four games for HC Lev Prague in the Kontinental Hockey League.
Awards and achievements
- 2004 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2006 AHL Second All-Star Team
- 2008 Stanley Cup win with the Detroit Red Wings
- 2010 KHL All-Star Game
Internationally
- 2002 bronze medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2002 All- Star team the U18 World Youth Championship
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the Czech Republic at:
- World U -17 Hockey Challenge in 2000
- U18 Junior World Championship 2000
- U20 Junior World Cup 2002
- U18 Junior World Cup 2002
- U20 Junior World Championship 2003
- 2003 World Cup
- U20 Junior World Championship 2004
( 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 )