Ronald Petrovický
Ronald Petrovický (* 15 February 1977 in Žilina, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak professional ice hockey player who played most recently in 2009 for the Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League. His brother Róbert is also a professional hockey player.
Career
Ronald Petrovický began his career as a hockey player in the junior section of the HC Dukla Trenčín for whose first team he in the Extraliga (Slovakia ) in 1993/94 made his debut in the Slovak Extraliga. Subsequently, the winger moved to the Canadian junior Western Hockey League in which he was active for the Tri -City Americans, Prince George Cougars and Regina Pats 1994-1998. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the ninth round in 1996 when a total of 228 players from the Calgary Flames. First he played from 1998 to 2000 exclusively for Calgary's farm team in the American Hockey League before he also for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League was Saint John Flames for two years on the ice. For much of his rookie year, the 2000/01 season, he missed due to a wrist injury he suffered shortly after the season starts.
The 2002/03 season spent Petrovický at Calgary's league rival New York Rangers before he was selected on 3 October 2003 in the NHL Waiver Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers. For the Thrashers, he scored in his first year in 78 games 16 goals and had 15 assists. The lockout during the 2004/ 05 season spent the Slovak national team in Europe, where he was successively for the MsHK Žilina Slovak his hometown, as well as the Brynäs IF in the Swedish Elitserien on the ice. Following the resumption of gaming operations in the NHL, he returned to Atlanta, where he spent another season before he signed a contract as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 24, 2006. However, due to a hip injury in the preseason, he could only 31 games for Pittsburgh in the NHL contest and also completed four games for their AHL farm team Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
During the 2007/ 08 season of Olympic athlete ran from 2006 for several European clubs. First, he began the season with the HC Dukla Trenčín, then he moved to MODO Hockey in the Elitserien and finally he finished the season at EV train in the Swiss National League A. At the following season he was the Latvian club Dinamo Riga of the Continental newly founded Hockey League committed. For his new team, he scored two goals in 30 games and was preparing for another three before. Then it pulled the Slovaks again to North America, he graduated in the 2009/10 season but only six games for the AHL team of the Springfield Falcons. Since then, he is without a club.
Internationally
For Slovakia Petrovický took at junior level only part in the European Junior Championships in 1994. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the World Championships in 2000 and 2004, and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Awards and achievements
Statistics
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