Jozef Stümpel

Jozef Stümpel ( born June 19, 1972 in Nitra, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey player who played in Kärpät Oulu in the SM- liiga.

Career

Jozef Stümpel began his career in his hometown at AC Nitra. After he had in the first Czechoslovak League, among other things together with Žigmund Palffy played two years, the Cologne Sharks in 1991 noticed him and committed the young talent. In the NHL Entry Draft in 1991, the Boston Bruins assured that drew him to a total of 40 out, the rights to the left shooting center. With strong performances he recommended himself for a commitment in the National Hockey League and moved even during the season on the Bruins. However, he got in the early years, not many inserts in Boston, but was used mostly in the AHL team in Providence.

1993/94 to Stümpel established in the NHL team the Bruins and played the play-offs in Boston, where they reached the second round for the first time. At the beginning of the season 1994/95 he played due to the lockout again for the Cologne Sharks, but returned to its end back to North America. 1997 Stümpel was now a top player in the league has become, he was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings, where he played the next four years and always was one of the best players. However, his greatest success was the re reaching the second play-off round in 2001. Shortly after start of the season 2001, he was traded back to Boston, where he scorte in the next two years 109 points in 161 games in the play-offs but each morning failed. For the season 2003/ 04 he moved again back to the Kings. He could his two- year contract, however, because of the lockout do not meet - the season 2004/ 05 he played for HC Slavia Prague in the Czech Extraliga. After the end of the lockout in 2005 Stümpel returned to North America where he played until 2008 for the Florida Panthers. In the summer of the same year, he joined the Continental Hockey League to Barys Astana from Kazakhstan.

In July 2010, he joined together with Maxim Spiridonov and Konstantin Glasatschow for HC Dinamo Minsk and was in the following season team captain of the club. For Dinamo, he completed 52 KHL games in which he scored 33 points scorer. After the season he was obliged by HK Spartak Moscow. In December 2011, his contract was dissolved at Spartak and Stümpel equally as Marcel Hossa as a free agent available. Stümpel returned then organized in Slovakia back and completed two games for his hometown club before he was obliged by end of January 2012 Kärpät Oulu of the SM- liiga. For Kärpät he graduated in the following 27 games.

Internationally

1990 Stümpel took first for the selection of the former Czechoslovakia at a tournament ( Junior Championship ). A year later he also played the World Youth Championship for his country. With the senior team, he played Slovakia at the World Championships in 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, where he and the team won the 2002 title and a year later the bronze medal. 2002 he also participated in the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, some four years later at the Winter Games in Turin in 2004 and the World Cup of Hockey.

Awards and achievements

Career Stats

( 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 )