Jiří Šlégr

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Jiří Šlégr
Date of birth May 30, 1971
place of birth Jihlava , Czechoslovakia
size 185 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1990 , 2nd lap, 23rd position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
until 1992 CHZ Litvínov
1992-1995 Vancouver Canucks
1995-1996 Edmonton Oilers
1996-1997 Södertälje SK
1997-2001 Pittsburgh Penguins
2001-2002 Atlanta Thrashers
2002 Detroit Red Wings
2002-2003 HC Chemopetrol Litvínov
HK Awangard Omsk
2003 Vancouver Canucks
2003-2004 Boston Bruins
2004-2005 HC Chemopetrol Litvínov
2005-2006 Boston Bruins
2006-2010 HC Litvínov
2013-2015 HC Litvínov

Jiří Šlégr ( IPA : [ˈjɪr̝i: ˈʃlɛ: gr̩] ? / I ; * May 30, 1971 in Jihlava , Czechoslovakia as Jiří Bubla junior ) is a former Czech ice hockey player ( defender ) who worked for the Vancouver Canucks , Edmonton Oilers , Pittsburgh Penguins , Atlanta Thrashers , Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League . He is the son of Jiří Bubla . Since the end of his career, he has been a member of the board of directors of HC Litvínov and, since 2014, of the coaching staff. Audio file / audio sample

Career

Jiří Šlégr learned how to handle pucks and clubs in his hometown at HC Litvínov and played his first first division game in the 1987/88 season. Although he was selected in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft by the Canucks as 23rd in the first round, he played for Litvinov until 1992. As a rookie , he scored four goals and 22 assists in 41 games for the Canucks in the 1992/93 season (with a plus / minus rating of +16 ), but was also used in some games for the farm team in Hamilton .

In the following season he played exclusively in Vancouver and scored 38 points scorer in 78 games. This made him the third best defender of the Canucks, but was still not used in any game of the play-offs for the Stanley Cup .

In April 1995 he was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Roman Oksjuta , where he was under contract until the summer of 1996. Then he moved back to Europe in the Swedish Elitserien to Södertälje SK . In 1997 he returned to the NHL, but the Oilers had given him in exchange for a draft pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins . With the Penguins Šlégr played for three and a half seasons and improved his game through the defensive tactics of the Penguins. He brought his best offensive performance in the 1999/2000 season when he scored eleven goals.

After almost four years with the Penguins, it was handed over to the Atlanta Thrashers , who swapped it with the Detroit Red Wings for Yuri Buzajew and a draft pick after just one year, in March 2002 . With the Red Wings he won the Stanley Cup in 2002 , although he had only played one play-off game. After just nine games in Detroit, he signed a contract in his hometown with HC Litvinov. Shortly before the play-offs of the Superliga he was then signed by Avangard Omsk .

In the summer of 2003, Šlégr signed a contract with the Vancouver Canucks as a free agent , but since he fell out of favor with coach Marc Crawford , he was handed over to the Boston Bruins after 16 games . In 36 games with the Bruins, he scored four goals and 15 assists. During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL , he played again at his home club HC Litvinov and returned to the Bruins after the season. In the summer of 2006 he then signed another contract with HC Litvinov, which loaned him to EHC Biel in March 2007 to support them in the NLB play-off finals and the relegation games.

From summer 2009 he was also assistant coach of HC Litvinov. In March 2010 he ended his playing career after his hometown club was eliminated in the pre-play-offs.

Šlégr then got involved in local politics. In 2010, Šlégr was elected to the Czech House of Representatives for the CSSD . Together with his party friend, the former Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek , Šlégr left the CSSD parliamentary group in 2011 and joined the People's Socialists - Left of the 21st Century . On June 14, 2013, Šlégr resigned his parliamentary mandate in protest against Petr Neča's government and current Czech politics.

For the 2013/14 season he returned to the squad of HC Litvinov and won the Czech championship title with it at the end of the following season . He also acted as an assistant coach during the 2014/15 season.

In January 2018 he took over the post of head coach at his home club.

International

Jiří Šlégr began to represent his homeland (then Czechoslovakia) at international tournaments early on in his youth. So he took part in the U20 World Cup in 1990 and U20 World Cup in 1991 and won bronze medals both times . In 1991 he was also recognized as the best defensive player - due to the performance shown he was nominated for the men's world championships in the same year .

At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , he won the bronze medal with the Czechoslovak national team . Four years later he was named to the squad for the 1996 World Cup of Hockey , but the Czech national team only achieved a disappointing last place. A year later, at the 1997 World Cup , Jiří Šlégr won bronze again with the Czech national team.

His improved defensive performance, which he had developed at the Pittsburgh Penguins, then helped the Czechs win the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , where the Czech team surprised with an excellent defense.

It was not until 2004 that Jiří Šlégr was called back to the national team and played the 2004 World Cup and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey . In spring 2005 he won the gold medal of the world championship with the Czech national team . He had won all three major trophies (Olympic, World Cup and Stanley Cup) in ice hockey and has been a member of the prestigious Triple Gold Club ever since .

Achievements and Awards

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 11 622 56 193 249 838
Playoffs 6th 42 4th 14th 18th 39

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personal data
SURNAME Šlégr, Jiří
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bubla, Jiří junior (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player, coach and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Jihlava , Czechoslovakia