Petr Buzek
Petr Buzek ( born April 26, 1977 in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League, among others, for the Dallas Stars, Atlanta Thrashers and Calgary Flames in its active period from 1995 to 2006.
Career
Petr Buzek began his career as a hockey player in his hometown HC Dukla Jihlava when, for the first team, he was active in the Czech Extraliga 1993-1995. Then the defender in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 was selected in the third round than a total of 63 players from the Dallas Stars. Due to the consequences of a serious car accident in which he, inter alia, both legs and the nose broke, the junior national team was during the 1995/96 season deny a single game. From 1996 to 1999, the Czech played almost exclusively for Dallas farm team from the International Hockey League, the Michigan K- Wings. In the 1997/98 season was in two games for the Stars in the National Hockey League on the ice.
June 25, 1999 Buzek was selected in the NHL Expansion Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers. For the team from the U.S. state of Georgia, he scored in his first full season in the NHL in the 1999/2000 season in a total of 63 games five goals and gave 14 assists. Because of his achievements, he was re-nominated in the same year for the NHL All-Star Game. Due to a neck injury at the start of the 2000 /01 in a game against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim of the links contactors almost an entire season fell again and was able to complete only five games for the Thrashers. On 18 December 2001, Buzek was released along with a sixth- round option for the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in exchange for Jeff Cowan and the rights to Kurtis Foster of the Calgary Flames. After two years with regular applications in the Canadians he was loaned for the season 2003/ 04 to HC Sparta Prague from his Czech homeland, for the injury-prone world champion of 2000, however, throughout the year played only five games in the Extraliga.
In the 2004/05 season Buzek ran for HC Dukla Jihlava and its domestic rivals HC Litvinov in the Czech Extraliga up before following the 2005/06 season, in which he stood by the HC Slovan Bratislava in the Slovak Extraliga under contract, he, at the age of only 29 years, ended his active career.
Internationally
For the Czech Republic Buzek took part in the U18 European Junior Championships in 1995, the Under-20 Junior World Cup in 1995 and the World Championship in 2000 in part.