Petr Hrbek
Petr Hrbek ( born April 3, 1969 in Prague, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player, who in his active from 1985 to 2009 included for the Star Bulls Rosenheim in the German Ice Hockey League as well as the HC Sparta Prague HC Litvinov and HC Slavia Prague has played in the Czech Extraliga. Since his career end Hrbek as youth coach at HC Kobra Prague.
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Career
Petr Hrbek began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of CKD Sparta Prague, for the first team to 1989 he was active from 1985 into the first league of the highest Czechoslovak league. The 1989/90 season he spent during his military service in the army sports club Dukla Jihlava ASD. From 1990 to 1992, the Center ran again for Sparta Prague. In the summer of 1992, he reached an agreement with the Detroit Red Wings, who had chosen him already in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 in the third round than a total of 59 players on a contract and played in pre-season in the NHL squad. Shortly before the start of the season but was sent to the Adirondack Red Wings of the American Hockey League, who were the farm team of the Red Wings at this time. He played 37 AHL games for the franchise, but did not get a chance to prove his skills in the National Hockey League. Therefore, and due to an illness of his daughter, he returned with his family back to Czechoslovakia. In the remaining games of the 1992/93 season he scored 30 points scorer in 18 games and had thus a large part in that Sparta Prague won the championship.
After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, he joined with Sparta Prague in the 1993/94 season for the first time in the newly established Czech Extraliga on. After 17 games, he left the team, however, and the Star Bulls Rosenheim joined from the Hockey League. The highest German league has been reformed to the 1994/95 season and the Czech performed with the Star Bulls in succession competition German Hockey League on.
For the 1995/96 season Hrbek returned once more returned to his hometown club Sparta Prague. He spent the following two and a half years at the Extra Liga rivals HC Litvinov. Halfway through the 1998/99 season the two -time Olympian moved to Sparta Prague HC Slavia Prague rivals. There he remained seasonally across two years before he ended the 2000/01 season at Sparta Prague. For the season 2001 /02 the right shooter was committed by the EHC Freiburg from the 2nd Hockey League. In the course of the season, however, he joined the Skellefteå AIK in the Allsvenskan, the Swedish second division, at. For the season 2002/ 03 he accepted an offer by the participant Extraliga HC Havířov. He then spent a year each in Germany at the Blue Lions Leipzig and Rostock the EC in the fourth division hockey Regional. From late summer of 2006 he played in the second Czech league for the HC Melnik. In October 2006, he moved to the fifth German league for the ERC Chemnitz, for which he was active until the end of the season 2008 /09. He then finished his career at the age of 40 years.
Internationally
For Czechoslovakia Hrbek took the junior level at the U18 European Junior Championships 1987 U20 World Junior Championships in 1988 and 1989 as well as some. In the U18 European Championship in 1987, he won the silver at the 1989 U20 World Cup bronze medal with his team. In the 1988 U20 World Cup, he was also elected to the All- Star team of the tournament. In the senior level, he stood in the line-up of Czechoslovakia at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 and at the World Championships in 1992. Both tournaments he won with Czechoslovakia, the bronze medal, which he was also elected at the 1992 World Cup in the All- Star Team of the tournament.
For the Czech Republic, he took part in the 1993 World Championships, where he won the bronze medal with his team, as well as the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer part.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
( 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 )