Andrej Meszároš

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Andrej Meszároš
Date of birth October 13, 1985
place of birth Považská Bystrica , Czechoslovakia
size 188 cm
Weight 100 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2004 , 1st round, 23rd position
Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2002-2004 HC Dukla Trenčín
2004-2005 Vancouver Giants
2005-2008 Ottawa Senators
2008-2010 Tampa Bay Lightning
2010-2014 Philadelphia Flyers
2014 Boston Bruins
2014-2015 Buffalo Sabers
2015-2016 HK Sibir Novosibirsk
since 2016 HC Slovan Bratislava

Andrej Meszároš (born October 13, 1985 in Považská Bystrica , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with HC Slovan Bratislava in the Continental Hockey League and the Slovak Extraliga (since 2019) since August 2016 .

Career

Andrej Meszároš began his career with the Slovak club HC Dukla Trenčín in the Slovakian extra league , with which he became Slovak champion in the 2003/04 season , before being selected by the Senators as the 23rd player in the first round in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft ( drafted ) has been.

Andrej Meszároš in the Tampa Bay Lightning jersey (2010)

Due to the lockout in the 2004/05 season Andrej Meszároš could not gain NHL experience and so he played with the Vancouver Giants in the Western Hockey League . A year later he played his first games for the Senators and was soon part of the permanent staff in Ottawa due to his strong defensive skills and perfect puck control . As the second best rookie defender of the 2005/06 season , the left-handed shooter was also elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team . Furthermore, Meszároš was nominated for the "Young Stars Game", which took place in the framework of the NHL All-Star Game 2007 , and was part of the starting line-up of the Eastern Conference team .

In the summer of 2008, a transfer business brought him to the Tampa Bay Lightning , which in return gave Filip Cuba and Alexandre Picard to Ottawa. On July 1, 2010, he was given to the Philadelphia Flyers , in exchange, the Lightning received a second-round vote for the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.

On March 5, 2014, just before the trade deadline , the Flyers swapped him for a third-round suffrage for the Boston Bruins . On his debut for the Bruins four days later, he scored a power play goal against the Florida Panthers . After the season he moved to the Buffalo Sabers , with whom he signed a one-year contract that was not extended in the sequence. Subsequently, the Slovak left North America after more than ten years and joined the HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Continental Hockey League , where he signed a one-year contract. In 37 KHL games for Sibir, he scored 7 goals and 4 assists.

International

For the Slovak national ice hockey team Andrej Meszároš took part in the ice hockey world championship in 2004 and in the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin . There he was the second youngest participant in the Olympic ice hockey tournament behind the Russian Yevgeny Malkin . Four years later, the defender also took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics and was part of the Slovak squad at the 2015 World Cup .

At the U-18 World Championships in 2003 he also won the silver medal with the Slovak team.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2014/15 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2002/03 HC Dukla Trenčín EL (Svk) 23 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
2003/04 HC Dukla Trenčín EL (Svk) 44 3 30th 6th 8th 14th 3 1 4th 2
2004/05 Vancouver Giants WHL 59 11 30th 41 94 6th 1 3 4th 14th
2005/06 Ottawa Senators NHL 82 10 29 39 61 10 1 0 1 18th
2006/07 Ottawa Senators NHL 82 7th 28 35 102 20th 1 6th 7th 12
2007/08 Ottawa Senators NHL 82 9 27 36 50 4th 0 1 1 6th
2008/09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 52 2 14th 16 36 - - - - -
2009/10 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 81 6th 11 17th 50 - - - - -
2010/11 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 81 6th 24 30th 42 11 2 4th 6th 8th
2011/12 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 62 7th 18th 25th 38 1 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 11 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
2013/14 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 38 5 12 17th 34 - - - - -
Boston Bruins NHL 14th 2 3 5 6th 4th 0 2 2 2
2014/15 Buffalo Sabers NHL 60 7th 7th 14th 36 - - - - -
Extraliga (Svk) total 67 3 4th 7th 12 14th 3 1 4th 2
NHL overall 645 63 175 238 457 50 4th 13 17th 46

( 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

Commons : Andrej Meszároš  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flyers acquire Meszaros from Tampa Bay; re-sign Coburn
  2. ^ B's Make Trade Deadline Transactions - the team has acquired Andrej Meszaros and Corey Potter. bruins.nhl.com, March 5, 2014, accessed March 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ В «Сибири» защитник сборной Словакии! hcsibir.ru, October 30, 2015, accessed October 30, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Meszároš, Andrej
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meszaros, Andrei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Považská Bystrica , Czechoslovakia