Petr KlÃma
Petr Klima ( born December 23, 1964 in Chomutov, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins 1985-1999.
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Career
Petr Klima began his career with the CHZ Litvinov, for he 1981 to 1983 in the first league, the highest Czechoslovak Hockey League, played. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 in the fifth round as the 86th overall player of the Detroit Red Wings. First, the attacker stayed for two more years in his Czechoslovakian homeland, where he met the ASD Dukla Jihlava champion, 1984 and 1985 before he fled during a training camp of the national team in West Germany and was given refugee status in the United States. In the 1985/86 season Klima made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Red Wings, who submitted him in November 1989 in a so-called " blockbuster transfer " to the Edmonton Oilers, with those in the 1989/90 season went straight to prestigious Stanley Cup won. As part of the transfer business he was replaced with Joe Murphy, Adam Graves and Jeff Sharples in the Canadian metropolis, while Jimmy Carson, Kevin McClelland and a fifth- round draft law went to Detroit.
Prior to the 1993/94 season the Czech to the Tampa Bay Lightning has been delivered, for which he played until 1996, a total of three years. During the lockout in the 1994/95 NHL season he was also in a game in the Czech Extraliga for the AC ZPS Zlín on the ice, as well as twelve times for the EC Wolfsburg from the 2nd Hockey League.
After his contract end in Tampa followed for Klíma a turbulent season 1996/97, in which he stood with the Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins, his former club Edmonton Oilers and the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League contract. Klima Then spent a year with the Krefeld Penguins of the German Ice Hockey League before becoming a free agent with the Detroit Red Wings, who had brought him into the NHL, joining in January 1999. There he could not prevail, so that he paused for two years with ice hockey before he played from 2001 to 2003 again for his youth club HC Chemopetrol Litvinov from the Extraliga, where he finally ended his career.
Internationally
For Czechoslovakia Klima participated in the Junior World Championships in 1983 and 1984, as the European Junior Championships in 1982 in part.