Andrej Šustr
Date of birth | November 29, 1990 |
place of birth | Pilsen , Czechoslovakia |
size | 203 cm |
Weight | 91 kg |
position | defense |
number | # 62 |
Shot hand | Right |
Career stations | |
2010-2013 | University of Nebraska Omaha |
2013-2014 | Syracuse crunch |
2013-2018 | Tampa Bay Lightning |
2018-2019 | San Diego Gulls |
since 2019 | Kunlun Red Star |
Andrej Šustr (born November 29, 1990 in Pilsen ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with Kunlun Red Star in the Continental Hockey League since July 2019 . He previously spent five years in the Tampa Bay Lightning organization and three years at the University of Nebraska Omaha .
Career
youth
Andrej Šustr was born in Pilsen and started playing ice hockey at the age of eight after the Czech national team won the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics . He went through the youth teams of his hometown-based HC Plzeň in 1929 until he was awarded to the third-class HC Rokycany in the 2008/09 season . After only two missions there, Šustr did not return to the U20 of HC Plzeň, but left the Czech Republic in November 2008 for North America and joined the Kenai River Brown Bears in Soldotna , Alaska . After a year in the North American Hockey League , during which he stayed with a host family, the defender moved to the Youngstown Phantoms in the United States Hockey League and thus in a higher junior league for the 2009/10 season . In Youngstown , Šustr recorded 19 points in 50 games; he also took the U20 national team of the Czech Republic at the 2010 U20 World Youth Championship in part.
college
After the 2009/10 season, the Czech received a scholarship to the University of Nebraska Omaha , where he was aiming for a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. At the same time he played for the Omaha Mavericks in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a university league organized by the NCAA ; he was the first Czech in the history of the Omaha Mavericks. In his three years at the University of Nebraska Omaha, Šustr increased his personal stats year after year to 25 points from 39 games in the 2012/13 season, in which he also led the Mavericks as assistant captain. In addition, he was elected to the WCHA's third all-star team in his final season , before signing an entry contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning from the National Hockey League in March 2013 , in which he already took part in a youth training camp last summer would have.
Tampa Bay Lightning and Anaheim Ducks
Just a week after signing the contract, Šustr made his debut in the NHL in the game against the New Jersey Devils . Another use for the Lightning followed, before it was given to the Syracuse Crunch , whose farm team from the American Hockey League . In Syracuse, the defender completed eight regular season games and 18 games in the play-offs. He also spent the beginning of the following season 2013/14 in the AHL before he was reappointed to the NHL squad in January 2014. There he managed to establish himself, so that he came to 42 missions by the end of the season and was also on the ice in three play-off games. In the 2014/15 season he reached the Stanley Cup final with the Lightning, but lost to the Chicago Blackhawks . The Lightning then extended his contract by two years.
As part of the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , Šustr made his debut in the senior national team of his home country and came up with three missions. After the 2017/18 season, his expiring contract in Tampa was not renewed, so the Czech joined the Anaheim Ducks as a free agent in July 2018 and signed a one-year contract there. In the 2018/19 season he was mainly used with the San Diego Gulls in the AHL and left North America when he signed a contract with Kunlun Red Star in the Continental Hockey League in July 2019 .
Due to his height of 2.03 meters, he is often compared to Zdeno Chára .
Achievements and Awards
- 2013 WCHA Third All-Star Team
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | ||
2008/09 | Kenai River Brown Bears | NEAR | 36 | 1 | 7th | 8th | -8th | 58 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | ||
2009/10 | Youngstown Phantoms | USHL | 50 | 1 | 18th | 19th | –6 | 95 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2010/11 | University of Nebraska Omaha | WCHA | 39 | 2 | 7th | 9 | +5 | 38 | ||||||||
2011/12 | University of Nebraska Omaha | WCHA | 33 | 4th | 13 | 17th | -2 | 26th | ||||||||
2012/13 | University of Nebraska Omaha | WCHA | 39 | 9 | 16 | 25th | +16 | 53 | ||||||||
2012/13 | Syracuse crunch | AHL | 8th | 2 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 8th | 18th | 2 | 5 | 7th | +11 | 25th | ||
2012/13 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | Syracuse crunch | AHL | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4th | -3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 43 | 1 | 7th | 8th | +3 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | ||
2014/15 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 73 | 0 | 13 | 13 | +10 | 34 | 26th | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 18th | ||
2015/16 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 77 | 4th | 17th | 21st | -2 | 30th | 17th | 1 | 2 | 3 | +7 | 16 | ||
2016/17 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 80 | 3 | 11 | 14th | -10 | 43 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2017/18 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 44 | 2 | 5 | 7th | -5 | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2018/19 | San Diego Gulls | AHL | 39 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -8th | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2018/19 | Anaheim Ducks | NHL | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
WCHA overall | 111 | 15th | 36 | 51 | +19 | 117 | ||||||||||
AHL total | 59 | 3 | 7th | 10 | -14 | 30th | 18th | 2 | 5 | 7th | +11 | 25th | ||||
NHL overall | 324 | 10 | 53 | 63 | -3 | 147 | 46 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +8 | 36 |
International
Represented the Czech Republic at:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | |
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2010 | Czech Republic | U20 World Cup | 7th place | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 6th | |
2016 | Czech Republic | World cup | 6th place | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 2 | |
Juniors overall | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 6th | ||||
Men overall | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 2 |
( 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
- Andrej Šustr in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Andrej Šustr at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b tampabay.com: "Lightning's Sustr impresses in debut" (English, March 31, 2013, accessed on December 8, 2014)
- ↑ lightning.nhl.com: "Andrej Sustr Reaches For New Heights With Lightning, Career" (December 16, 2013, accessed December 8, 2014)
- ↑ University of Nebraska Omaha Hockey: Weekly Release, November 9, 2010, p. 17 ( pdf version ( Memento from August 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), 1709 kB)
- ^ University of Nebraska Omaha Hockey: Weekly Release, Nov. 9, 2010, p. 6
- ↑ lightning.nhl.com: "Lightning Agree to Terms with Andrej Sustr" (English, March 21, 2013, accessed December 8, 2014)
- ↑ Lightning sign defenseman Sustr to two-year contract. nhl.com, June 30, 2015, accessed June 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Gulls to Dragons - Andrej Sustr. In: hcredstar.com. June 6, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ tampabay.com: "Big future expected for Sustr" (English, November 28, 2013, accessed December 8, 2014)
Goalkeepers:
Šimon Hrubec |
Jeremy Smith
Defender:
Victor Bartley |
Jake Chelios |
Jason Fram |
Brayden Jaw |
Trevor Murphy |
Denis Osipov |
Griffin Reinhart |
Ryan Sproul |
Andrej Šustr |
Mikaël Tam
Attacker:
Dávid Bondra |
Gilbert Brulé |
Adam Cracknell |
Brandon DeFazio |
Spencer Foo |
Garet Hunt |
Cory Kane ( A ) |
Danny Kristo |
Luke Lockhart |
Andrew Miller |
Devante Smith-Pelly |
Ethan Werek |
Tyler Wong |
Brandon Yip
Head Coach: Alexei Kowaljow Assistant Coach: Steve Kasper General Manager: Scott MacPherson
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Šustr, Andrej |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sustr, Andrej |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1990 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pilsen , Czechoslovakia |