Róbert Švehla

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SlovakiaSlovakia  Róbert Švehla Ice hockey player
Date of birth 2nd January 1969
place of birth Martin , Czechoslovakia
size 185 cm
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 4th lap, 78th position
Calgary Flames
Career stations
until 1989 ZŤS Martin
1989-1992 Dukla Trenčín
1992-1995 Malmö IF
1995-2002 Florida panthers
2002-2003 Toronto Maple Leafs

Róbert Švehla (born January 2, 1969 in Martin , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player who played during his active career between 1995 and 2003 in the National Hockey League for the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs .

Career

Club

Švehla began his career in the youth teams of ZŤS Martin , for whom he made his debut in the 1986/87 season in the second-rate 1st SNHL. In 1989 he moved to the first division of Czechoslovakia, the 1st division , to Dukla Trenčín . In the following three years he established himself in the league and won the Czechoslovak Championship with Dukla in 1992 . He also won the Zlatá hokejka , the highest award in Czechoslovak ice hockey.

During the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 , he was selected by the Calgary Flames in the fourth round in 78th place, but remained in Europe and from then on played for the Malmö IF in the Swedish top division, the Elitserien . With Malmö IF he won the Swedish Championship in the 1993/94 season and was the best defender of the Elitserien in terms of goals and scorer points. At the end of the following season he left Sweden and played five games in the National Hockey League for the Florida Panthers , who had acquired the NHL rights to Švehla in September 1994.

In the following eight years Švehla played exclusively for the Panthers in the NHL and reached with these in 1996 the final of the Stanley Cup , in which they were subject to the Colorado Avalanche . In the summer of 2002 he was given in exchange for Dmitri Yushkevich to the Toronto Maple Leafs , where he spent his last season as an active athlete. On September 4, 2003, he publicly resigned from competitive sports. In total, he completed 655 NHL regular season games, in which he reached 335 points scorer.

Since the end of his career, Švehla has continued to play ice hockey. At the 2005 World Cup he was the assistant coach of the Slovak national team. On January 14, 2009, Švehla was assistant coach at HC Dukla Trenčín . Since summer 2009 he has been the chairman of the youth club of HC Dukla Trenčín.

International

Švehla represented Czechoslovakia at the U18 European Championship in 1987, at the World Cup in 1992 and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . After the dissolution of his country of birth, he played for Slovakia at the Winter Olympics in 1994 and the B-World Cup in 1995 , where he made it to the top division with the Slovak national team and was elected to the All-Star team .

Further appearances followed at the World Cup of Hockey 1996 , the Olympic Winter Games 1998 , the World Championship 1998 and the World Championship 2003 .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1989/90 Dukla Trenčín 1st League 29 4th 3 7th
1990/91 Dukla Trenčín 1st League 52 16 9 25th 62
1991/92 Dukla Trenčín 1st League 51 23 28 51 74
1992/93 Malmö IF Elitserien 40 19th 10 29 86 6th 0 2 2 28
1993/94 Malmö IF Elitserien 37 14th 25th 39 127 10 5 1 6th 23
1994/95 Malmö IF Elitserien 32 11 13 24 83 9 2 3 5 6th
1994/95 Florida panthers NHL 5 1 1 2 0 - - - - -
1995/96 Florida panthers NHL 81 8th 49 57 94 22nd 0 6th 6th 32
1996/97 Florida panthers NHL 82 13 32 45 86 5 1 4th 5 4th
1997/98 Florida panthers NHL 79 9 34 43 113 - - - - -
1998/99 Florida panthers NHL 80 8th 29 37 83 - - - - -
1999/00 Florida panthers NHL 82 9 40 49 64 4th 0 1 1 4th
2000/01 Florida panthers NHL 82 6th 22nd 28 76 - - - - -
2001/02 Florida panthers NHL 82 7th 22nd 29 87 - - - - -
2002/03 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 7th 38 45 46 7th 0 3 3 2
NHL overall 655 68 267 335 649 38 1 14th 15th 42
Elitserien total 109 44 48 92 296 25th 7th 6th 13 57
1st league overall 132 43 40 83 136

International

Represented Czechoslovakia in:

Represented Slovakia at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1987 Czechoslovakia U18 European Championship 7th 2 2 4th 2
1992 Czechoslovakia Olympia 8th 2 1 3 8th
1992 Czechoslovakia WM 8th 4th 4th 8th 14th
1994 Slovakia Olympia 8th 2 4th 6th 26th
1995 Slovakia WM Div. I. 4th 0 6th 6th 10
1996 Slovakia World cup 3 0 3 3 4th
1998 Slovakia Olympia 2 0 1 1 0
1998 Slovakia WM 6th 1 1 2 14th
2003 Slovakia WM 9 0 3 3 8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hockeyslovakia.sk, Sieň slávy - Róbert Švehla
  2. ↑ hokej.sk, Róbert Švehla riaditeľom HK Dukla Trenčín ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hokej.sk
personal data
SURNAME Švehla, Róbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Svehla, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Martin , Czechoslovakia