Petr Nedvěd
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Petr Nedvěd ( born December 9, 1971 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player with Canadian citizenship. In the National Hockey League he played for the Vancouver Canucks, St. Louis Blues, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers, Phoenix Coyotes and Philadelphia Flyers. He was also in the course of his long career for the White Tigers Liberec and HC Sparta Prague in the Czech Extraliga.
- 3.1 club competitions
- 3.2 International
Career
Nedvěd played until he was 17 in his Czechoslovakian homeland in the junior department of the CHZ Litvinov, where his father had played for eight years even. In an international junior tournament in Calgary, Canada for the beginning of 1989 he took the opportunity and sat down on the team.
After escaping Nedvěd played the 1989/90 season with the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League. With 145 points in 71 games, he was elected Rookie of the Year of the Western Hockey League and Canadian Hockey League, which meant that he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 to second overall position of the Vancouver Canucks and equal to a NHL contract for the season 1990/91 received.
Despite the early praise Czech-born could the claims in his first two professional seasons not do justice, and posted in 138 games only 53 points. Only in the 1992/93 season he managed 71 points in 84 games of the breakthrough. Due to disagreements regarding his contract between him and the management of the Canucks Nedved's NHL career was put on hold. He then joined the Canadian national team, after he had recently obtained Canadian citizenship. He was appointed to the squad for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Together with Paul Kariya, he led the team to the finals of the Olympic ice hockey tournament, where the Swedes were beaten by Peter Forsberg and eventually was able to win the silver medal. In March 1994 he joined as a free agent with the St. Louis Blues, for which he but only 19 completed games, but posted 20 points. As compensation for the loss of the Canucks Craig Janney had received, which was, however, brought back immediately for a player package. After only five months in St. Louis, she moved to Nedved's reigning Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers for Esa Tikkanen and Doug Lidster. However, the shortened by the lockout season 1994/95 proved to be a disappointment for the striker, and he was released in summer 1995, together with Sergei Zubov for Luc Robitaille and Ulf Samuelsson to Pittsburgh Penguins. At the exhibition Nedvěd in his first year with 45 goals and 99 points Karrierebestmarken on and represented according to the season his home country the Czech Republic at the World Cup of Hockey 1996. This was possible because the World Cup was not organized by the IIHF, in their tournaments him was not allowed to play.
After another solid season with the Penguins Nedvěd missed the entire NHL season 1997/98 due to a renewed contract dispute. He therefore returned to the Czech Republic and played some games for the HC Sparta Prague in the Czech Extraliga. After he was transferred in November 1998 among others for Alexei Kovalev to the New York Rangers, he ran again for the team from the "Big Apple". In contrast to his first stay at Rangers were the six seasons in New York until 2004, the most consistent of his entire NHL career. When the Rangers, however, had on the way the playoffs were to miss and the Centre over the entire season with his performances disappointed again in March 2004, they gave him from the Edmonton Oilers.
Following further lockout of NHL Season 2004/ 05 Nedvěd moved back to HC Sparta Prague, although he had signed a contract with the Phoenix Coyotes as a free agent before the season. One of his first games for the Coyotes, he came in the season 2005/06. However, since he could not retrieve the performance potential of earlier years and was widely separated from his wife in 2004 geehelichten Veronika Vařeková, who worked in New York, he asked in January 2006 about a Transfer to a team on the East Coast. For Dennis Seidenberg he was finally released to the Philadelphia Flyers. There, his game did not change also, which culminated in the fact that he screened in October 2006 after a 1:9 loss to the Buffalo Sabres out of the squad and was first deported to his career in the American Hockey League. Unhappy with the situation at farm team, the Philadelphia Phantoms, Nedvěd refused a return to the NHL squad the Flyers and settled in January 2007 Select on the waiver list of the Edmonton Oilers, where he finished the season.
In June 2007, the Czech in the NHL finally came back and signed a contract with HC Sparta Prague, for which he was already running for the seasons 1997/98 and 2004/ 05.
Between 2008 and 2014 he was active for the White Tigers Liberec and was at this time captain of the White Tiger. In March 2014 he ended his career at the age of 42 years, after one months previously participated at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Club competitions
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 )