Petr Sýkora

Petr Sykora ( [ si ː pɛtr̩ kora ], born November 19, 1976 in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey player who was most recently at the SC Bern of the National League A under contract.

Career

The 1.83 m wide center began his career with HC Plzeň in the Czechoslovak and after the division in the Czech Extraliga before being selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 as 18th in the first round by the New Jersey Devils ( drafted ) was.

First, the links Sagittarius played for several Devils farm team in the IHL and AHL, but in his first NHL season 1995/96 he made ​​it into the trunk of the squad teams from East Rutherford. In the season 1999/ 00 Sykora won with the Devils to the Stanley Cup, a year later, he did not fail to New Jersey only in the finale at Colorado Avalanche, but without a new personal career record of 35 goals, 46 assists, or 81 points in the regular season set to have.

Petr Sykora 2002 was finally transferred in exchange for Jeff Friesen and Oleg Twerdowski to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, with whom he again reached the Stanley Cup Final in 2003, but this time he lost his former teammates from New Jersey with 3:4 games. In the fourth longest play-off game of the NHL 's history on 24 April 2003 Sykora had previously scored in the fifth extension of the decisive overtime Gate in the Conference semi-finals against the Dallas Stars.

During the NHL lockout in 2004/05 Sykora played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Russian Super League during their first NHL season after this lockout the Mighty Ducks separated from the Czechs, who then on 9 January 2006 in exchange for Maxim Kondratiev to the New York Rangers moved.

On July 7, 2006 declared the Rangers that Sykora would not be in the squad of the 2006/07 season, after which he signed a one-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers on August 11. After an unsuccessful season with Edmonton, he joined in the summer of 2007 on the Pittsburgh Penguins. After the Stanley Cup win with the Pens his contract was not renewed. Therefore, he was invited September 14, 2009 into the training camp of the Minnesota Wild and received three days later a contract. After his contract expired, he was initially some time without a club before Sykora signed a contract with HC Plzeň 1929 for over a month in October 2010. In mid-November of the same year he was obliged by HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. For Dinamo, he completed 35 KHL games in which he scored 17 points scorer. At the end of the season he was not given a new contract with Dinamo, so he returned to his hometown club.

For the HC Plzeň 1929 he graduated first four games as part of the European Trophy in 2011, before he was invited to the training camp of the New Jersey Devils in September. This eventually took him in early October for a year under contract.

In January 2013, Sykora was given a contract until the end of the season with SC Bern.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Career Stats

( 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 )