Rob Valicevic
Rob Valicevic ( born January 6, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who has played during his career, among other things, for the Nashville Predators, Los Angeles Kings, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League. In the years 2005 to 2007 he was active for the ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
Career
Valicevic began his career in 1991 as a team of Lake Superior State University, with whom he played from now on in the U.S. College Football Central Collegiate Hockey Association. He belonged to the tribe immediately squad and won with Lake Superior Lakers 1992 Championship. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1991, he was selected by the New York Islanders in the sixth round of a total of 114 positions. The links Sagittarius finished his studies and then moved in the summer of 1995 in the American Hockey League with the Springfield Falcons, the former farm team the Hartford Whalers and the Winnipeg Jets, where he graduated, however, only two games. Valicevic was at this time mainly in the squad of the Louisiana Ice Gators from the East Coast Hockey League.
More career station in the following years, the Houston Aeros, with whom he won the Turner Cup in 1999. That same year, 1.85 m wide and 89 kg striker also completed his first 19 appearances in the NHL for the Nashville Predators. The then 28 -year-old was able to convince the leaders and then became part of the squad for the Predators. After another two years, during which he wore the jersey 140 times the Predators and it was able to achieve 29 points scorer, he joined as a free agent the Los Angeles Kings. There he was, however, mainly in their farm team, the Manchester Monarchs used.
For the 2002/03 season he signed a one-year contract with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and moved only a year later the club and the Dallas Stars joined to. During the NHL lockout of 2004/05 season Valicevic played in the Finnish SM- liiga for TPS Turku and in the United Hockey League for the Flint Generals.
After Valicevic ultimately barely made chances of a renewed commitment in the NHL, he forced a move to Europe in 2005. There, the management of the ERC Ingolstadt of the DEL were aware of him and transferred him to Germany. In Ingolstadt, he performed well, but his contract was not renewed at the end of season 2006/ 07. He scored in 103 DEL games for the Panthers 77 points, making it one of the most successful scorers on the team.
His active career ended Hockey Rob Valicevic at the age of 37 years in the Austrian Bundesliga at the Klagenfurt AC.