Martin Štrbák

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SlovakiaSlovakia  Martin Štrbák Ice hockey player
Date of birth 15th January 1975
place of birth Prešov , Czechoslovakia
size 191 cm
Weight 96 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 9th round, 224th position
Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
until 1995 HK Prešov
1995-1997 HC Slovan Bratislava
1997-1998 HK Spišská Nová Ves
1998-1999 HC Slovan Bratislava
HK Trnava
1999-2000 HC Chemopetrol Litvínov
2000-2002 HC Vsetín
2002-2003 Yaroslavl locomotive
2003 HPK Hämeenlinna
2003-2004 Pittsburgh Penguins
2004 HC Košice
2004-2007 HK CSKA Moscow
2007-2008 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2008-2009 HC Moeller Pardubice
2009 Rögle BK
2009-2010 HK MWD Balashikha
2010-2011 OHK dynamo
2011–2012 HC Lev Poprad
2012 Rögle BK
2012-2015 HC Košice

Martin Štrbák (born January 15, 1975 in Prešov , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player who was active in various European top leagues during his career and also played 49 games in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins . The greatest success of his career was winning the gold medal at the 2002 World Cup .

Career

Martin Štrbák was already selected as a youth player in the NHL Entry Draft 1993 in the ninth round as a total of 224th player by the Los Angeles Kings , for whom he never played. He began his career as a ice hockey player with HK Prešov , for which he made his debut in the Slovakian extra league in the 1994/95 season . During his rookie year , the defender moved to their league rivals HC Slovan Bratislava , for whom he was active for the following two and a half years. Then the left gunner stood a year at HK Ves under contract, before returning for another season for HC Slovan Bratislava, but he left again even during the 1998-99 season in order for the HK Trnava in the first league to play.

Subsequently, Štrbák played for three years in the Czech extra league , in which he ran up one season for HC Chemopetrol Litvínov and two more seasons for HC Vsetín , with whom he was Czech champion in 2001 . During the 2001/02 season, the Slovakian signed a contract in the Russian Super League with Lokomotive Yaroslavl , with whom he became Russian champion in 2002 . He finished the 2002/03 season in the Finnish SM-liiga at HPK Hämeenlinna .

Martin Štrbák in the jersey of HC Lev Poprad (2nd from right, 2012)

In his only season in the National Hockey League Štrbák completed 5 games for the Los Angeles Kings and 44 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2003/04 season , in which he scored five goals and a total of 16 points scorer. At the same time, the defender played in twelve games for the Kings farm team , the Manchester Monarchs from the American Hockey League .

During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , he returned to Europe, where he first played in his Slovak homeland for HC Košice before he was active in Russia for HK CSKA Moscow for two and a half years . In the 2007/08 season Štrbák played for HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , with whom he won the IIHF European Champions Cup . The following season began the former NHL player at HC Moeller Pardubice in the Czech Republic, before he moved to Rögle BK in the Swedish Elitserien during the season . In the summer of 2009 he then moved back to Russia when he signed a contract with HK MWD Balaschicha from the Continental Hockey League . After this merged with HK Dynamo Moscow , he spent the 2010/11 season at their joint successor club OHK Dynamo .

For the 2011/12 season he moved to the Slovak KHL newcomer HC Lev Poprad , for whom he completed 35 KHL games. From June 2012, Štrbák was back under contract with Rögle BK before returning to HC Košice in December. In May 2013 he received a three-year contract extension from HC Košice.

In October 2015 he was dismissed by the president of HC Košice along with head coach Peter Oremus , assistant coach Roman Šimíček and defender Radek Philipp . He then ended his career and worked temporarily as a consultant for the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation.

International

Martin Štrbák (right) at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

For Slovakia , Štrbák took part in the U20 Junior B World Championships in 1995 , as well as the World Championships in 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 and 2011 . He was also part of the Slovak squad at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

International

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 1 49 5 11 16 46
Playoffs - - - - - -

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Štrbák po vyhadzove for Košíc: Koniec Kariery? Dám si oddych! In: cas.sk. October 15, 2018, accessed November 27, 2018 (Slovak).
  2. ↑ Martin Štrbák: Doháňa Stratený čas. In: sport.aktuality.sk. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Štrbák, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strbak, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Prešov , Czechoslovakia