Michal Neuvirth

Michal Neuvirth ( born March 23, 1988 in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who stands since March 2014 at the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League contract.

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Career

Michal Neuvirth started his career as a hockey player in his Czech homeland in the youth of the HC Sparta Prague, for which he was active from 2003 to 2006. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2006 in the second round than a total of 34 players from the Washington Capitals. First, however, the goalkeeper played from 2006 to 2008 for two years in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League, where he stood for the Plymouth Whalers, Windsor Spitfires and the last the Oshawa Generals on the ice.

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season made ​​it Neuvirth neither in the NHL squad of capital, nor in the AHL Hershey Bears squad. Instead, he tried to get into his home when HC Ocelari Třinec a contract. When this attempt failed, he returned to North America and played for the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL. Because of its good services, he was appointed later in the AHL squad and got the Bears after the injury by Brent Johnson the chance to make his first NHL game.

His debut in the National Hockey League for the Washington Capitals gave the Czech 14 February 2009, blocking 31 shots in a 5-1 away win his team at the Tampa Bay Lightning.

After he came in the 2013/14 season in only 13 games for use, it was issued on March 5, 2014, together with Rostislav Klesla in exchange for Jaroslav Halák to the Buffalo Sabres.

Internationally

For Neuvirth Czech Republic took part in the U18 World Youth Championship in 2006 and the Junior World Championship in 2008.

Awards and achievements

  • 2007 Dave Pinkney Trophy (together with Jeremy Smith)
  • 2007 F. W. " Dinty " Moore Trophy
  • 2007 OHL Second All- Rookie Team
  • 2007 OHL Second All-Star Team
  • 2007 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Plymouth Whalers
  • 2009 ECHL All-Star Game
  • 2009 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
  • 2009 Jack A. Butterfield Trophy
  • 2010 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
  • 2010 NHL Rookie of the Month October

Internationally

  • 2006 bronze medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
2006 NHL Entry Draft HC Sparta Praha 2013–14 NHL season Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships List of Calder Cup champions Christian Ehrhoff Jamie McBain Tyler Myers Alexander Sulzer Henrik Tallinder Mike Weber Luke Adam Cory Conacher Matt Ellis (ice hockey) Tyler Ennis Marcus Foligno Cody Hodgson Zenon Konopka Ville Leino Torrey Mitchell John Scott (ice hockey) Drew Stafford Chris Stewart (ice hockey) Ted Nolan Joe Sacco (ice hockey)
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