Jiří Hudler

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Jiří Hudler
Date of birth 4th January 1984
place of birth Olomouc , Czechoslovakia
size 175 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2002 , 2nd lap, 58th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
until 2003 HC Vsetín
2003 Ak Bars Kazan
2003-2006 Grand Rapids Griffins
2003-2009 Detroit Red Wings
2009-2010 HK Dynamo Moscow
2010–2012 Detroit Red Wings
2012-2016 Calgary Flames
2016 Florida panthers
2016-2017 Dallas Stars

Jiří Hudler (born January 4, 1984 in Olomouc , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player . The right winger made over 700 appearances for the Detroit Red Wings , Calgary Flames , Florida Panthers and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League . Most of this time he spent with the Red Wings, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2008 playoffs . In addition, he was honored with the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in 2015 for his athletic fairness.

Career

Jiří Hudler began his career in 1997 in the HC Vsetín U18 team in the Czech Republic. In his second season he was able to score 114 points in 46 games, so that after the season at the age of 15 he was already included in the U20 squad of Vsetín. In the 1999/2000 season he was also able to convince the U20 juniors and was even allowed to go on the ice twice for the professionals in the Extraliga .

The stakes for the U20 team were less in the 2000/01 season, but more and more for the professionals. That year he played for Vsetín and for HC Havířov Panthers in the extra league . In 2001/02 he finally made the breakthrough with the professionals of Vsetín and was able to score 46 points in 46 games. He also won the bronze medal with the Czech national team at the U18 Junior World Championships.

Jiří Hudler in the Detroit Red Wings jersey

In North America, too, attention was drawn to his good performance and so Hudler was one of the players who were available for selection in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft . Hudler was selected in the second round at position 58 by the Detroit Red Wings .

He then completed the 2002/03 season at his home club HC Vsetín and in Russia at Ak Bars Kazan . Hudler was also used in the 2003 World Cup for the Czech Republic, where they just missed a medal.

In the summer of 2003 he moved to North America, where he played the 2003/04 season mainly with the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, in the American Hockey League . But he was also allowed to gain first NHL experience when he was used in twelve games and even scored a goal.

Since the 2004/05 NHL season was canceled because of the lockout , Hudler first returned to his hometown club HC Vsetín, but then played most of the season in the AHL at Grand Rapids. In 2005/06 Hudler only played four times in the NHL, but was the third best scorer in the AHL with 96 points (36 goals, 60 assists) in 76 games.

Jiří Hudler with the Stanley Cup

The Red Wings extended his contract for a year in the summer of 2006 and added him to the NHL squad. Hudler was mainly used in the third or fourth row of attacks and scored 15 goals and ten assists. Towards the end of the season and in the playoffs, he was temporarily removed from the squad, as more experienced attackers had been committed with Kyle Calder and Todd Bertuzzi .

In July 2007, his contract was extended by two years and Hudler returned as a regular in the Red Wings squad, where he played a convincing season with 13 goals and 29 assists. In the playoffs he was only used in the fourth row of attacks, but he was able to prove his skills as a scorer. In the 22 playoff games he scored five goals and prepared nine goals, making him the team's fifth best scorer. He scored his most important goal in the final series against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the fourth game, when he contributed the decisive goal to 2-1 and thereby laid the foundation stone for Detroit to win the Stanley Cup .

After his contract expired in the summer of 2009, Hudler became a restricted free agent . Since he was not satisfied with the contract offer from Red Wings, the NHL arbitration board was turned on. A few days later, Hudler signed a contract with HK Dynamo Moscow . Then called USA Hockey and the National Hockey League Players' Association , the International Ice Hockey Federation to IIHF to investigate this transfer. In mid-September 2009 this decided that the transfer is legally valid, as Hudler did not have an active NHL contract at the time of signing in Moscow. After a year in the Continental Hockey League and the re-establishment of the OHK Dynamo , Hudler returned to the Red Wings. On May 24, 2010, he signed a $ 5.75 million two-year contract in Detroit. After his contract expired, he moved to the Calgary Flames in July 2012 . Due to the NHL lockout, Hudler completed four games for HC Lev Prague in the Continental Hockey League in September 2012 . In 2015 he also received the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy , while with 76 scorer points from 78 games he also achieved the best statistics of his NHL career.

After almost four years in Calgary, Hudler was handed over to the Florida Panthers in February 2016 , with the Flames receiving a second-round vote for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft and a fourth-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . Since his contract expired at the end of the season and the Panthers did not renew it, he joined the Dallas Stars in August 2016 for the following season . After this season, however, the Czech did not receive a further contract in Dallas, so he subsequently ended his active career. He had played a total of 791 NHl games and scored 470 points.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1997/98 HC Vsetín U18 extra league 42 24 28 52 - - - - - -
1998/99 HC Vsetín U18 extra league 46 57 57 114 - - - - - -
1999/00 HC Vsetín U20 extra league 53 29 31 60 75 - - - - -
1999/00 HC Vsetín Extra league 2 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2000/01 HC Vsetín U20 extra league 16 8th 14th 22nd 16 - - - - -
2000/01 HC Vsetín Extra league 22nd 1 4th 5 10 - - - - -
2000/01 HC Havířov Extra league 15th 5 1 6th 12 - - - - -
2001/02 HC Vsetín Extra league 46 15th 31 46 54 - - - - -
2001/02 Bílí Tygři Liberec 1st League 1 1 2 3 0 12 8th 5 13 10
2001/02 HC Olomouc 2nd league 1 0 2 2 4th - - - - -
2002/03 HC Vsetín Extra league 30th 19th 27 46 22nd - - - - -
2002/03 Ak Bars Kazan Super league 11 1 5 6th 12 1 0 0 0 0
2003/04 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 57 17th 32 49 46 4th 1 5 6th 2
2003/04 Detroit Red Wings NHL 12 1 2 3 10 - - - - -
2004/05 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 52 12 22nd 34 10 - - - - -
2004/05 HC Vsetín Extra league 7th 5 2 7th 10 - - - - -
2005/06 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 76 36 60 96 56 16 6th 16 22nd 20th
2005/06 Detroit Red Wings NHL 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2006/07 Detroit Red Wings NHL 76 15th 10 25th 36 6th 0 2 2 4th
2007/08 Detroit Red Wings NHL 81 13 29 42 26th 22nd 5 9 14th 14th
2008/09 Detroit Red Wings NHL 82 23 34 57 16 23 4th 8th 12 6th
2009/10 HK Dynamo Moscow KHL 54 19th 35 54 18th 4th 0 1 1 4th
2010/11 Detroit Red Wings NHL 73 10 27 37 28 10 1 2 3 6th
2011/12 Detroit Red Wings NHL 81 25th 25th 50 42 5 2 0 2 4th
2012/13 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 4th 3 2 5 4th - - - - -
2012/13 HC Lev Prague KHL 4th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2012/13 Calgary Flames NHL 42 10 17th 27 22nd - - - - -
2013/14 Calgary Flames NHL 75 17th 37 54 16 - - - - -
2014/15 Calgary Flames NHL 78 31 45 76 14th 11 4th 4th 8th 2
2015/16 Calgary Flames NHL 53 10 25th 35 17th - - - - -
Florida panthers NHL 19th 6th 5 11 10 6th 0 1 1 4th
2016/17 Dallas Stars NHL 32 3 8th 11 4th - - - - -
U18 extra league overall 88 81 85 166 - - - - - -
U20 extra league overall 69 37 45 82 91 - - - - -
Extraliga overall 126 48 68 116 112 - - - - -
KHL total 58 19th 36 55 20th 4th 0 1 1 4th
AHL total 185 65 114 179 112 20th 7th 21st 28 22nd
NHL overall 708 164 264 428 243 83 16 26th 42 40

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2000 Czech Republic U17-WHC 5th place 5 2 4th 6th
2000 Czech Republic U18 World Cup 6th place 6th 0 2 2 8th
2002 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 7th place 7th 1 2 3 0
2002 Czech Republic U18 World Cup Bronze, 3rd place 8th 7th 7th 14th 8th
2003 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 6th place 6th 3 4th 7th 2
2003 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 9 2 4th 6th 2
2004 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 2 3 5 6th
2013 Czech Republic WM 7th place 8th 4th 1 5 6th
2014 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 10 1 3 4th 8th
Juniors overall 39 15th 22nd 37 24
Men overall 27 7th 8th 15th 16

( 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 : Jiří Hudler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IIHF approves Hudler transfer. In: iihf.com. September 9, 2009, accessed November 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hudler, Jiří
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hudler, Jiri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc , Czechoslovakia