Róbert Petrovický
Róbert Petrovický ( born October 26, 1973 in Košice, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey player who is under contract with HC Kometa Brno in the Tipsport Extraliga since October 2011. In his long career, he has 210 games for the Hartford Whalers, St. completed in the National Hockey League Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars. His brother Ronald is also hockey players.
Career
Róbert Petrovický began his career as a junior player at Dukla Trenčín, for whom he made his debut in the Czechoslovak first league in the 1991/92 season. In 1991, Žigmund Palffy to Trencin and together with Branislav Jánoš and Róbert Petrovický he made a very torgefährliches trio. NHL Entry Draft 1992 Róbert Petrovický of the Hartford Whalers was selected in the first round in ninth place.
From 1992 Petrovický then played with varying degrees of success in the NHL for the Whalers, so he was often used in the AHL with the Springfield Indians. In November 1995 he was given in exchange for Dan Kesa to the Dallas Stars, where he mainly came in the farm teams for use again. In the 1996/97 season, he completed a total of 46 missions for the St. Louis Blues in the NHL, but played the following season only for their farm team, the Worcester IceCats.
His next stop in the NHL were the Tampa Bay Lightning, where he played 71 NHL games in two seasons. In the summer of 2000, he joined as a free agent with the New York Islanders. He played eleven NHL games for the Islanders and 23 games for their farm team in Chicago, but moved to the end of the season in the Swedish Elitserien to MoDo Hockey Örnsköldsvik. In 2001 he went to the National League A for HC Ambri -Piotta, the SCL Tigers and the ZSC Lions on the ice. In the season 2004/ 05 he was Swiss vice champion with the ZSC Lions, who lost the playoff final with 4-1 against HC Davos.
The season 2007/ 08 he started at HC Vitkovice Steel before. Eleven games in the Czech Republic for Leksand IF in the Swedish second league, which moved HockeyAllsvenskan With Leksand he failed in the Kvalserien 2008 the rise in the Elitserien and then returned to HC Vitkovic. End of the season 2008/ 09 he moved again to Leksand IF, with whom he failed again in the Kvalserien.
The end of September 2009, he initially returned to his hometown club Dukla Trenčín, before he signed a contract in the Kontinental Hockey League Dinamo Riga on 19 October 2009. For Latvians, he scored eight goals in 43 games and gave an additional 16 templates. After a Slovak club was included in the KHL with the HC Lev Poprad for the 2010/11 season for the first time, he signed with the KHL rookie. As this did not take up the game mode, Petrovický was initially without a club. In October 2010, he got a contract with Kalevan Pallo ( KalPa ) from the Finnish SM- liiga, whom he left in mid-December 2010 and was again obliged Dinamo Riga. After the season 2010/11 he left Dinamo and was initially without a club. In October 2011 he received a contract with HC Kometa Brno.
Internationally
Róbert Petrovický has participated in all major international championships during his career. In 1992 he participated with the Czechoslovak U20 selection at the U20 World Cup in which he scored three goals and six assists in seven games. With the Slovak national team, he won the gold medal at the World Cup 2002. Additional highlights of his career was the participation in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Albertville, in Nagano in 1998 and 2002 in Salt Lake City. Overall, he scored 22 goals for Slovakia in 89 internationals.
Awards and achievements
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 ); PD playdowns, KV Kvalserien
Family
Petrovický with Sarka, the daughter of the Czech hockey coach Vladimír Vůjtek, married and has two children with her.