Andrej Sekera

Slovakia Andrej Sekera


Date of birth	June 8, 1986
place of birth	Bojnice , Czechoslovakia
size	183 cm
Weight	91 kg

position	defender
number	# 5
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 3rd round, 71st position Buffalo Sabers

Career stations

until 2004	HC Dukla Trenčín
2004-2006	Owen Sound Attack
2006-2008	Rochester Americans
2008-2013	Buffalo Sabers
2013-2015	Carolina Hurricanes
2015	Los Angeles Kings
2015-2019	Edmonton Oilers
since 2019	Dallas Stars

Andrej Sekera (born June 8, 1986 in Bojnice , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League since July 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Andrej Sekera began his career in the youth teams of HC Dukla Trenčín , for which he played in the junior leagues of Slovakia until 2004. In the 2003/04 season he also made his debut in the Slovak Extra League for Trenčín. During the NHL Entry Draft 2004 he was selected by the Buffalo Sabers in the third round in a total of 71st place and then moved in the summer of 2004 to the Owen Sound Attack from the Ontario Hockey League .

This was followed by two very successful years in the OHL for Sekera, in which he was appointed to the All- Rookie Team in 2005 and to the All-Star Team in 2006 . He was also awarded the Max Kaminsky Trophy , which is awarded to the outstanding defender of the OHl. In July 2006, Sekera signed his first contract with the Buffalo Sabers, which ties him to the franchise for three years . The season 2006/07 he completed with the farm team of the Sabers, the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League . He also made his NHL debut with the Sabers, but only came to two NHL games. In the following season, defenders of the Sabers fell out due to injury, so that Sekera was regularly appointed to the NHL squad and was used in a total of 37 season games. He scored his first NHL goal on November 28, 2007 against the goalkeeper of the St. Louis Blues , Manny Legace . For the 2008/09 season Sekera received a regular place in the defense of the Sabers after the departure of other defenders.

In late June 2013, Sekera was transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for Jamie McBain and a second-round vote in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft . The defender stayed there for almost a year and a half before the Los Angeles Kings signed him in exchange for Roland McKeown and a first-round vote in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft . In Los Angeles, Sekera only stayed until the end of the season, when he signed a six-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers in July 2015 .

In June 2019, his contract, which was still running for two years, was paid out early (buy-out) . In early July 2019, he signed a one-year contract with the Dallas Stars as a free agent .

International

Andrej Sekera represented the Slovak national junior team at three world championships: 2004 , 2005 and 2006 . In 2006, he led Slovakia's junior selection as team captain .

With the senior team , the defender played the World Championships in 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2012 , 2013 , 2016 , 2018 and 2019 as well as the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi . He also represented the Europe team at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , where he finished second with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2005 OHL First All-Rookie Team
2006 Max Kaminsky Trophy
2006 OHL First All-Star Team

International

2012 silver medal at the world championship
2016 second place at the World Cup of Hockey

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	HC Dukla Trenčín	U20 extra league	52	5	10	15th	10	-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	HC Dukla Trenčín	U20 extra league	48	9	15th	24	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	HC Dukla Trenčín	U18 extra league	3	0	0	0	2	5	2	3	5	2
2003/04	HC Dukla Trenčín	U20 extra league	45	5	12	17th	16	2	0	1	1	4th
2003/04	HC Dukla Trenčín B	1st League	5	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	HC Dukla Trenčín	Extra league	3	0	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Owen Sound Attack	OHL	52	7th	21st	28	18th	6th	0	4th	4th	4th
2005/06	Owen Sound Attack	OHL	51	21st	34	55	54	11	5	8th	13	9
2006/07	Rochester Americans	AHL	54	3	16	19th	28	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	2	0	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Rochester Americans	AHL	40	2	15th	17th	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	37	2	6th	8th	16	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	69	3	16	19th	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	49	4th	7th	11	6th	6th	0	0	0	7th
2010/11	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	76	3	26th	29	34	2	1	0	1	4th
2011/12	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	69	3	10	13	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HC Slovan Bratislava	KHL	25th	3	9	12	8th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	37	2	10	12	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	74	11	33	44	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	57	2	17th	19th	8th	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Los Angeles Kings	NHL	16	1	3	4th	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	81	6th	24	30th	12	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	80	8th	27	35	18th	11	1	2	3	2
2017/18	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	36	0	8th	8th	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	24	0	4th	4th	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Bakersfield Condors	AHL	5	0	2	2	2	-	-	-	-	-
U20 extra league overall			145	19th	37	56	46	2	0	1	1	4th
OHL total			103	28	55	83	72	17th	5	12	17th	13
AHL total			99	5	33	38	52	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall			707	45	191	236	178	19th	2	2	4th	13

International

Represented Slovakia at:

Represented Team Europe at:

World Cup of Hockey 2016

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004	Slovakia	U18 World Cup	6th place	6th	1	1	2	18th
2005	Slovakia	U20 World Cup	7th place	6th	1	0	1	2
2006	Slovakia	U20 World Cup	8th place	6th	2	3	5	2
2008	Slovakia	WM	13th place	5	0	1	1	2
2009	Slovakia	WM	10th place	6th	0	2	2	2
2010	Slovakia	Olympia	4th Place	7th	1	0	1	0
2010	Slovakia	WM	12th place	6th	0	2	2	2
2012	Slovakia	WM		10	2	7th	9	6th
2013	Slovakia	WM	8th place	8th	1	1	2	2
2014	Slovakia	Olympia	11th place	4th	0	2	2	0
2016	Slovakia	WM	9th place	7th	3	1	4th	6th
2016	Team Europe	World cup	2nd place	6th	0	2	2	4th
2018	Slovakia	WM	9th place	7th	1	2	3	4th
2019	Slovakia	WM	9th place	7th	2	3	5	4th
Juniors overall				18th	4th	4th	8th	22nd
Men overall				73	10	23	33	32

( 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 Sekera - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Player biography on the Dallas Stars website
Andrej Sekera at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Andrej Sekera at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ sports.yahoo.com, Boyes' late goal gives Blues 4-3 win over Sabers , Nov. 28, 2007, accessed August 12, 2012
↑ hockeysfuture.com, Andrej Sekera profile

Squad of the Dallas Stars in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Sekera, Andrej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bojnice , Czechoslovakia

[1] sports.yahoo.com, Boyes' late goal gives Blues 4-3 win over Sabers , Nov. 28, 2007, accessed August 12, 2012

[2] ysfuture.com, Andrej Sekera profile