Marián Hossa

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 2020
Marián Hossa
Date of birth January 12, 1979
place of birth Stará Ľubovňa , Czechoslovakia
size 187 cm
Weight 95 kg
position Right wing
number # 81
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1997 , 1st round, 12th position
Ottawa Senators
Career stations
1995-1997 HC Dukla Trenčín
1997-1998 Portland Winter Hawks
1998-2005 Ottawa Senators
2005-2008 Atlanta Thrashers
2008 Pittsburgh Penguins
2008-2009 Detroit Red Wings
2009-2018 Chicago Blackhawks

Marián Hossa (born January 12, 1979 in Stará Ľubovňa , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player . The right winger spent most of his career in the National Hockey League with the Ottawa Senators , who picked him twelfth in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft , and with the Chicago Blackhawks , with whom he won Stanley in 2010 , 2013 and 2015 Cup won. In the meantime he was active for the Atlanta Thrashers , Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings , so that he completed a total of over 1300 games and scored over 1000 points scorer. With the Slovak national team , he took part in four Winter Olympics and numerous world championships. After he had already canceled the 2017/18 season, Hossa ended his active career due to a skin disease. In 2020, he was recognized for induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

Marián Hossa began his career in the Slovak youth league at HC Dukla Trenčín , where he was able to present his skills as a scorer with 91 points in 53 games. In the 1996/97 season, as a 17-year-old, he was already an integral part of the professional team from the Slovakian Extra League and scored 25 goals and 19 assists . Since he also played as one of the youngest participants in the 1997 World Cup for the Slovak national team, he also attracted international attention, so that he was selected in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft by the Ottawa Senators in the first round in twelfth position.

Hossa then moved to North America in the fall of 1997, where he should complete the following season with the Portland Winter Hawks from the Canadian Junior League WHL . Here, too, he was able to establish himself immediately and was, together with Todd Robinson and Brenden Morrow, one of the leading players in the Winter Hawks. The team finished first in the league at the end of the regular season and Hossa had scored 45 goals and prepared 40 more in 53 league games. He also showed his good form in the playoffs , with 13 goals he was the best goalscorer of the team that ultimately won the President's Cup after beating the Brandon Wheat Kings in the final . They eventually won the Memorial Cup tournament that followed, and Marián Hossa received several awards after the season ended. He was appointed to the First All-Star Teams of the WHL, the CHL and the Memorial Cup finals and was awarded the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy as the best rookie in the WHL.

Hossa in the jersey of the Atlanta Thrashers

After he was brought into the squad of the Ottawa Senators for a short time in his year in the WHL and made his NHL debut, he was part of the team's regular squad from the 1998/99 season . However, he suffered a knee injury at the start of the season, so he missed 22 games. Mainly he was used in his debut season in a defensive formation, came in the end on 15 goals and 15 assists and was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team and nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best new professional.

In 1999/2000 he further developed his scoring skills and scored 56 points, making him the team's third-best scorer and with 29 goals he led the entire team. However, Hossa did not only have positive memories of the season. In a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs , he accidentally hit opposing defender Bryan Berard in the eye with the top of his stick. As a result of the injury, Berard lost most of his vision in the affected eye, but was later able to return to the NHL.

As a result, Hossa developed more and more into a leading player in the Senators and was one of the best scorers in the team in the following two seasons with 75 and 66 points, which also helped him get his first invitation to the NHL All-Star Game in 2001 . After he had established himself as one of the best players in his own team, he slowly moved to the top within the league. In the 2002/03 season he was the first time the best points player of his team and with 45 goals fourth top scorer in the NHL, helping the team to the top position within the regular season and winning the Presidents' Trophy . In the playoffs he led the team with 16 points to the finals of the Eastern Conference , where they failed, however, to the New Jersey Devils .

In the 2003/04 season , Hossa set a new personal best with 82 points, occupying fifth place in the scorer ranking and sixth in the NHL's list of goalscorers with 36 goals. In the playoffs, however, he could only partially come close to this form and the Senators failed in the first round.

Since the 2004/05 NHL season was canceled due to the lockout , Hossa moved to Europe, where he played the year at his home club HC Dukla Trenčín and in the Swedish Elitserien at Mora IK .

Hossa played in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey for three months in 2008

In the summer of 2005 he returned to Ottawa, where he extended his contract as a restricted free agent for three years on August 23 , but was transferred to the Atlanta Thrashers on the same day together with Greg de Vries , who sent Dany Heatley to the Senators . In Atlanta he played in the 2005/06 season together with Marc Savard and Ilja Kovalchuk and the three of them led the team. Although they were among the best players of the season in the individual ratings for points, goals and assists, and Hossa set a new personal record with 92 points, the Thrashers missed qualifying for the playoffs.

2006/07 he played his personal best season and reached the mark of 100 points for the first time, making him the sixth best scorer in the NHL, after he had even led the scorer ranking at the beginning of the season at times. In addition, the Thrashers qualified for the playoffs for the first time in their history. Hossa could not build on his performance of the regular season there, only prepared one goal in four games and the team failed without a win in four defeats at the New York Rangers .

Hossa in the Detroit Red Wings jersey

In the 2007/08 season , Hossa started weak with only three goals and three assists from the first twelve games, but then largely returned to the old form. During the first half of the season, the Thrashers' management began negotiating an extension of the contract, which was due to expire at the end of the season, but when the talks were unsuccessful by the trade deadline on February 26, 2008, they transferred Hossa and Pascal Dupuis to the Pittsburgh Penguins , who sent Colby Armstrong , Erik Christensen , Angelo Esposito and a first-round vote in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft to Atlanta. Hossa was injured on his debut for the Penguins, but returned after a two-week break and was one of the team's most important players, especially in the playoffs. After beating the Ottawa Senators, New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers , they met the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup finals . In the first two games, however, Hossa and the rest of the Penguins' players failed to score a single goal. In the remaining four games of the series, which Detroit finally won, Hossa contributed three goals and four assists. Overall, he was the third best scorer in the playoffs with twelve goals and 14 assists from 20 games.

After the end of the season, the Penguins negotiated with Hossa about a new contract, but after no agreement could be reached, he became an unrestricted free agent on July 1, 2008 and several teams wooed his services. Eventually, he signed a one-year deal with the Detroit Red Wings. It is noteworthy that after the final defeat in 2008 with the Pittsburgh Penguins against the Detroit Red Wings in 2009 in the new edition of the previous year's final series, he was again in the defeated team, but this time with the Red Wings.

After his contract expired in the summer of 2009, he signed a twelve-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks . With these he won the Stanley Cup for the first time in his career in the 2009/10 season . Hossa was able to repeat this success with the Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015, where he also posted his 1000th scorer point in the NHL in the 2014/15 season .

In June 2017, the Blackhawks announced that Hossa had been suffering from a skin disease for several years and that due to this and the severe side effects of his medication he would completely suspend the 2017/18 season. Multiple sources unanimously reported that it was an allergic reaction to his equipment. A similar allergy had already forced the Canadian player Tom Reid to end his career early in the late 1970s . Whether and when Hossa will return to active professional sport remained uncertain for the time being. Finally, in May 2018, Hossa announced that he would not continue his active career due to the illness. His contract is still valid until the end of the 2020/21 season, which the Blackhawks gave a little later in July 2018 in a multi-player transfer to the Arizona Coyotes .

International

Marian Hossa made his debut in the jersey of the Slovak national team in 1996 at the European Junior Championships and was on the ice for the first time in the seniors the following year. He played seven times for Slovakia at world championships . In 2002 and 2006 he competed at the Olympic Winter Games and has six goals and seven assists in a total of eight Olympic ice hockey games. Since 1997, he has played 59 international games and scored 56 points for the senior national team.

Although Hossa was on the ice in a total of 14 international tournaments, he was never able to win a medal and only made it past the quarter-finals once when he finished fourth at the 2004 World Cup with Slovakia.

He also represented the Europe team at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , where he finished second with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 HC Dukla Trenčín U20 extra league 49 37 31 68 32 - - - - -
1995/96 HC Dukla Trenčín 1st League 4th 3 1 4th 0 - - - - -
1996/97 HC Dukla Trenčín Extra league 53 30th 24 54 24 - - - - -
1997/98 Portland Winter Hawks WHL 53 45 40 85 50 16 13 6th 19th 6th
1998 Portland Winter Hawks Memorial Cup 4th 5 4th 9 4th
1997/98 Ottawa Senators NHL 7th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1998/99 Ottawa Senators NHL 60 15th 15th 30th 37 4th 0 2 2 4th
1999/00 Ottawa Senators NHL 78 29 27 56 32 6th 0 0 0 2
2000/01 Ottawa Senators NHL 81 32 43 75 44 4th 1 1 2 4th
2001/02 Ottawa Senators NHL 80 31 35 66 50 12 4th 6th 10 2
2001/02 HC Dukla Trenčín Extra league 8th 3 4th 7th 16 - - - - -
2002/03 Ottawa Senators NHL 80 45 35 80 34 18th 5 11 16 6th
2003/04 Ottawa Senators NHL 81 36 46 82 46 7th 3 1 4th 0
2004/05 Mora IK Elitserien 24 18th 14th 32 22nd - - - - -
2004/05 HC Dukla Trenčín Extra league 25th 22nd 20th 42 38 5 4th 5 9 14th
2005/06 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 80 39 53 92 67 - - - - -
2006/07 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 82 43 57 100 49 4th 0 1 1 6th
2007/08 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 60 26th 30th 56 30th - - - - -
2007/08 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 12 3 7th 10 6th 20th 12 14th 26th 12
2008/09 Detroit Red Wings NHL 74 40 31 71 63 23 6th 9 15th 10
2009/10 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 57 24 27 51 18th 22nd 3 12 15th 25th
2010/11 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 65 25th 32 57 32 7th 2 4th 6th 2
2011/12 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 81 29 48 77 20th 3 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 40 17th 14th 31 16 22nd 7th 9 16 2
2013/14 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 72 30th 30th 60 20th 19th 2 12 14th 8th
2014/15 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 22nd 39 61 32 23 4th 13 17th 10
2015/16 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 64 13 20th 33 24 7th 3 2 5 0
2016/17 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 73 26th 19th 45 8th 4th 0 0 0 2
U20 extra league overall 49 37 31 68 32 0 0 0 0 0
Extraliga overall 86 55 48 103 78 5 4th 5 9 14th
NHL overall 1309 525 609 1134 628 205 52 97 149 95

International

Represented Slovakia at:

 

Represented Team Europe at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1996 Slovakia U18 European Championship 7th place 5 1 3 4th 6th
1997 Slovakia U20 World Cup 6th place 6th 5 2 7th 2
1997 Slovakia U18 European Championship 6th place 2 3 0 3 0
1997 Slovakia WM 9th place 8th 0 2 2 0
1998 Slovakia U20 World Cup 9th place 6th 4th 4th 8th 12
1999 Slovakia WM 7th place 6th 5 2 7th 8th
2001 Slovakia WM 7th place 6th 1 2 3 2
2002 Slovakia Olympia 13th place 2 4th 2 6th 0
2004 Slovakia WM 4th Place 9 2 5 7th 2
2004 Slovakia World cup 7th place 4th 1 0 1 2
2005 Slovakia WM 5th place 7th 4th 3 7th 6th
2006 Slovakia Olympia 5th place 6th 5 5 10 4th
2006 Slovakia WM 8th place 5 1 6th 7th 0
2007 Slovakia WM 6th place 6th 2 4th 6th 6th
2010 Slovakia Olympia 4th Place 7th 3 6th 9 6th
2011 Slovakia WM 10th place 5 1 1 2 2
2014 Slovakia Olympia 11th place 4th 2 1 3 4th
2016 Team Europe World cup 2nd place 6th 1 0 1 4th
Juniors overall 19th 13 9 22nd 20th
Men overall 81 32 39 71 46

( 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 )

family

Marián Hossa's younger brother, Marcel Hossa , is also an ice hockey player. He was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2000 by the Montreal Canadiens in the first round at position 16 and made his NHL debut in 2001. Until 2008 he was active for the New York Rangers and the Phoenix Coyotes and played a total of 237 NHL games with 31 goals and 30 assists. He also played with his brother at Mora IK in Sweden during the lockout in the 2004/05 season . Her father František Hossa was also an ice hockey player and has been working as an ice hockey coach since the end of his career.

Web links

Commons : Marián Hossa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Medical update on Marian Hossa. nhl.com, June 21, 2017, accessed June 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ Report: Blackhawks' Marian Hossa dealing with serious equipment allergy. espn.com, June 21, 2017, accessed June 21, 2017 .
  3. ^ Hossa ending playing career after 19 seasons in NHL. nhl.com, May 19, 2018, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  4. ^ Coyotes Acquire Hinostroza, Oesterle & Draft Pick in Deal with Blackhawks. nhl.com, July 12, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hossa, Marián
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hossa, Marian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Stará Ľubovňa , Czechoslovakia