Branko Radivojevič

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SlovakiaSlovakia  Branko Radivojevič Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 24, 1980
place of birth Piešťany , Czechoslovakia
size 187 cm
Weight 95 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 3rd lap, 93rd position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
until 1998 HK Dukla Trenčín
1998-2001 Belleville Bulls
2001-2004 Phoenix Coyotes
2004-2006 Philadelphia Flyers
2004-2005 Vsetínská hokejová
2005 Luleå HF
2006-2008 Minnesota Wild
2008-2011 HK Spartak Moscow
2011–2012 Atlant Mytishchi
2012-2013 HK Spartak Moscow
2013 Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2013-2014 HC Slovan Bratislava
2014-2017 Bílí Tygři Liberec
since 2017 HK Dukla Trenčín

Branko Radivojevič (born November 24, 1980 in Piešťany ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Dukla Trenčín from the Slovakian extra league since May 2017 .

Career

Branko Radivojevič began his career as a hockey player in the youth of HK Dukla Trenčín , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Slovakian extra league in the 1997/98 season . He then moved to the Belleville Bulls , for which he was active from 1998 to 2001 in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League . During this period, the attacker was selected in the third round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft as a total of 93 players from the Colorado Avalanche , for which he never played. Since they did not sign him in the following two years, the right-handed shooter was hired on June 19, 2001 as a free agent by the Phoenix Coyotes , for whom he was on the ice in the National Hockey League for the following three seasons .

On February 9, 2004 Radivojevič was given together with Sean Burke and Ben Eager in exchange for Mike Comrie to the Philadelphia Flyers , for which he ran up to the end of the season in a total of 42 games. The lockout during the 2004/05 NHL season bridged the Slovak in Europe , where he was active for Vsetínská hokejová in the Czech extra league and Luleå HF in the Swedish Elitserien . After the resumption of play in the NHL in the 2005/06 season , he returned to the Philadelphia Flyers. From 2006 to 2008 the winger was under contract with their league rivals Minnesota Wild , before he was signed by HK Spartak Moscow from the newly founded Continental Hockey League , for which he played until 2011, before the 2008/09 season . He was assistant in the 2009/10 season and team captain in the following season .

In early August 2011, his contract with Spartak was terminated and Radivojevič moved to Atlant Moskowskaja Oblast . A year later, in May 2012, he returned to Spartak and signed a two-year contract with the club. In the following season he led Spartak again as captain on the ice and scored 25 points scorer in 55 games of the season. Then his current contract was terminated and Radivojevič moved to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk . There he could not build on his performance and was released in October 2013 and signed a few days later by HC Slovan Bratislava . For HC Slovan, he ran in 31 KHL games and twice in the Nadezhda Cup before his contract expired at the end of the season.

At the beginning of the 2014/15 season Radivojevič played again for his hometown club HK Dukla Trenčín in the Slovak Extra League, before moving to the Bílí Tygři Liberec in the Czech Extra League in October 2014 . With the White Tigers , he avoided relegation to the second division in 2015. A year later he won the Czech championship with the Tigers and was one of the strongest offensive players on his team. Another year later he reached the runner-up with the club from Liberec before returning to his home club in May 2017.

International

For Slovakia , Radivojevič took part in the junior division exclusively in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2000 . At senior level he was in the squad of his country at the World Championships in 2003 , 2007 , 2009 and 2011 and at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games , 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 6th 393 52 68 120 252
NHL playoffs 4th 31 2 1 3 36
KHL main round 6th 297 58 129 187 323
KHL playoffs 4th 31 9 11 20th 51

(Status: end of the 2013/14 season)

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personal data
SURNAME Radivojevič, Branko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radivojevic, Branko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Piešťany , Czechoslovakia