Marek Svatoš

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Marek Svatoš
Date of birth June 17, 1982
place of birth Košice , Czechoslovakia
date of death 5th November 2016
Place of death Lone Tree , Colorado , USA
size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2001 , 7th lap, 227th position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
1996-2000 HC Košice
2000-2002 Kootenay Ice
2002-2005 Hershey Bears
2005-2010 Colorado Avalanche
2010 HK Awangard Omsk
2010-2011 Nashville Predators
2011 Ottawa Senators
2013 HC Slovan Bratislava
2013-2014 HC Košice

Marek Svatoš (born June 17, 1982 in Košice , Czechoslovakia ; † November 5, 2016 in Lone Tree , Colorado , USA ) was a Slovak ice hockey player who played 358 games for the Colorado Avalanche , Nashville, between 2000 and 2014 Predators and Ottawa Senators played in the National Hockey League on the right winger position .

Career

Svatoš comes from the youth department of HC Košice , for which he played until the summer of 2000 and made his professional debut in the extra league there. After being elected to the CHL Import Draft , he finally moved to North America , where he joined the Kootenay Ice from the Western Hockey League . Although plagued by injuries, the striker knew how to convince in only 39 completed games with 41 scorer points and was selected in the seventh round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft in 227th place by the Colorado Avalanche from the National Hockey League . In his second year in Kootenay, the Slovak was instrumental in winning the President's Cup and Memorial Cup with 77 points in 53 missions .

In the summer of 2002, he finally switched to the professional sector, after he had signed a three-year contract with Avalanche in May of the same year. The 2002/03 season he spent exclusively with their farm team , the Hershey Bears , in the American Hockey League , which ended prematurely for him after 30 missions but because of a shoulder injury suffered in January 2003. Svatoš played his first NHL game for Colorado in the 2003/04 season , in which he was used in only four games in the regular season due to a repeated injury to the shoulder . Only at the beginning of the play-offs did the attacker return to the squad and play another eleven times. Due to the lockout of the 2004/05 NHL season , Svatoš found himself again in the farm team in Hershey this season. It was not until the 2005/06 season that he was able to establish himself up to a fracture on his right shoulder in early March 2006 in the NHL. By the time of the injury Svatoš had scored nine game-changing goals, which gave him first place in the statistics and at the same time meant an NHL record for a rookie . He was also one of the best scorers among the rookies with 32 goals.

The 2006/07 season meant a bitter setback for Svatoš, who could only achieve 15 goals and 15 assists in 66 games and thus fell far below expectations, which was associated with his serious injury. Also in the 2007/08 season he was unable to build on his best season in terms of points. In the summer of 2010, the striker did not receive a new contract with the Avalanche and then moved to the Continental Hockey League for HK Awangard Omsk , for whom he scored eight points in 19 games. At the end of December 2010, his contract in Omsk was dissolved, on December 28, 2010 the St. Louis Blues from the NHL signed him. In order to play for the Blues in the NHL, Svatoš had to join the league via the waiver list, which means that any NHL team could sign him within 48 hours without giving the Blues anything in return. Eventually, the winger was signed off waiver by the Nashville Predators on December 29 . In February 2011, he was put back on the waiver list and selected by the Ottawa Senators . For the Senators, he completed 19 more NHL games before he was forced to take a break due to a concussion in early April 2011.

Due to the head injury, Svatoš paused almost two years and only returned to the ice in January 2013, when he received a four-month contract from HC Slovan Bratislava from the Continental Hockey League . The 2013/14 season he finally graduated in his parent club HC Kosice , with whom he end of the season Slovakian champion was. Then he ended his active career.

Marek Svatoš died on November 5, 2016 at the age of 34 in Lone Tree near Denver , Colorado , leaving behind a wife and two children. The autopsy revealed that Svatoš was under the influence of codeine , morphine and alprazolam at the time of his death , so that the cause of death is assumed to be an overdose of these drugs, which are similar in their effects.

International

Svatoš was the Slovakian national team called and played at the 2006 Winter Olympics in the Italian Turin and the 2010 World Cup in Germany . In the junior division, he represented his home country at the U18 World Junior Championship in 2000 and the U20 World Junior Championship in 2002 . He finished the latter together with the Canadian Michael Cammalleri as top scorer. He was also elected to the tournament's all-star team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1999/00 HC Košice U20 extra league 39 43 30th 73 28 - - - - -
1999/00 HC Košice Extra league 19th 2 2 4th 0 - - - - -
2000/01 Kootenay Ice WHL 39 23 18th 41 47 11 7th 2 9 26th
2001/02 Kootenay Ice WHL 53 38 39 77 58 21st 12 6th 18th 40
2002 Kootenay Ice Memorial Cup 4th 1 4th 5 4th
2002/03 Hershey Bears AHL 30th 9 4th 13 10 - - - - -
2003/04 Colorado Avalanche NHL 4th 2 0 2 0 11 1 5 6th 2
2004/05 Hershey Bears AHL 72 18th 28 46 69 - - - - -
2005/06 Colorado Avalanche NHL 61 32 18th 50 60 - - - - -
2006/07 Colorado Avalanche NHL 66 15th 15th 30th 46 - - - - -
2007/08 Colorado Avalanche NHL 62 26th 11 37 32 - - - - -
2008/09 Colorado Avalanche NHL 69 14th 20th 34 34 - - - - -
2009/10 Colorado Avalanche NHL 54 7th 4th 11 35 3 1 0 1 2
2010/11 HK Awangard Omsk KHL 19th 3 5 8th 14th - - - - -
2010/11 Nashville Predators NHL 9 1 2 3 2 - - - - -
2010/11 Ottawa Senators NHL 19th 3 2 5 8th - - - - -
2011/12 without a contract not played because of head injury
2012/13 HC Slovan Bratislava KHL 6th 1 0 1 4th 2 0 0 0 2
2013/14 HC Košice Extra league 26th 6th 13 19th 10 10 1 3 4th 4th
WHL overall 92 61 57 118 105 32 19th 8th 27 66
AHL total 102 27 32 59 79 - - - - -
NHL overall 344 100 72 172 217 14th 2 5 7th 4th
Extraliga overall 45 8th 15th 23 10 10 1 3 4th 4th
KHL total 25th 4th 5 9 18th 2 0 0 0 2

International

Represented Slovakia at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2000 Slovakia U18 World Cup 5th place 6th 2 0 2 0
2002 Slovakia U20 World Cup 8th place 7th 7th 1 8th 6th
2006 Slovakia Olympia 5th place 6th 0 0 0 0
2010 Slovakia WM 12th place 6th 1 1 2 6th
Juniors overall 13 9 1 10 6th
Men overall 12 1 1 2 6th

( 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 : Marek Svatoš  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tsn.ca, Blues sign Svatos to a one-year contract
  2. ↑ tsn.ca, Predators Trump Blues; claim forward Svatos off waivers
  3. ↑ Kevin Röthig: Marek Svatoš died at the age of 34. hockeyweb.de, November 6, 2016, accessed on November 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Tom McGhee: Former Avalanche player Marek Svatos died of a drug overdose. denverpost.com, December 5, 2016, accessed December 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Svatoš, Marek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Svatos, Marek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Košice , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2016
Place of death Lone Tree , Colorado , USA