Pavel Kubina

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Pavel Kubina
Date of birth April 15, 1977
place of birth Čeladná , Czechoslovakia
size 193 cm
Weight 111 kg
position defender
number # 13
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1996 , 7th round, 179th position
Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
until 1996 HC Vítkovice
1996-1997 Moose Jaw Warriors
1997-1998 Adirondack Red Wings
1998-2006 Tampa Bay Lightning
2004-2005 HC Vítkovice Steel
2006-2009 Toronto Maple Leafs
2009-2010 Atlanta Thrashers
2010–2012 Tampa Bay Lightning
2012 Philadelphia Flyers
2013 Genève-Servette HC

Pavel Kubina (born April 15, 1977 in Čeladná , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who played 1021 games for the Tampa Bay Lightning , Toronto Maple Leafs , Atlanta Thrashers and Philadelphia Flyers in the course of his active career between 1993 and 2013 National Hockey League has contested on the position of defender . Kubina won - in addition to the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004 - between 1999 and 2005 a total of three gold medals with the Czech national team at the World Cup .

Career

Kubina already played for HC Vítkovice during his junior years , where he started his professional career in 1994 at the age of 17. In the 1996 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning from the National Hockey League in the seventh round as 179th player.

For the 1996/97 season , the defender moved to North America and initially played in the junior division with the Moose Jaw Warriors in the Western Hockey League . As the best defensive player there, he was at the beginning of the 1997/98 season in Tampa's expanded NHL squad and played ten games there in his rookie season . Mostly he was still used in the American Hockey League with the Adirondack Red Wings . From the 1998/99 game year , which he started with a few games in the International Hockey League with the Cleveland Lumberjacks , he made his breakthrough in the NHL.

Kubina in the jersey of the Toronto Maple Leafs

In the NHL, he was now one of the fixed sizes. He was respected in the league both as a robust player on the defensive and as an offensive defender. In the 2003/04 season he had a large share of the first Stanley Cup victory of the Lightning with 17 goals . His good performance was rewarded with participation in the 2004 NHL All-Star Game . When the NHL went on strike, Kubina played again in Vítkovice for his home club. After his contract expired in the summer of 2006, he signed a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs . After a foul in preparation he missed the start of the first season in Toronto. Also in Toronto he established himself as a valuable player on the blue line of the Leafs.

On July 1, 2009, Kubina and Tim Stapleton moved from Toronto to the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for Garnet Exelby and Colin Stuart . Kubina also played a key role in the team's defense in Atlanta and ended the season as the second best defender on the team. In early July 2010 it was announced that the Tampa Bay Lightning Kubina had re-signed. On February 18, 2012, the Bolts transferred him to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Jonathon Kalinski , a performance-related second-round suffrage in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft and a fourth-round suffrage in the same draft . There he ended the season, but initially did not find a new employer for the following year. In February 2013, Kubina was signed by Genève-Servette HC from the Swiss National League A until the end of the season, before he announced his retirement from professional sport in December - again without a club - at the age of 36.

International

Kubina represented his home country the Czech Republic at the Under-20 World Youth Championship in 1996 , the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1999 , 2001 , 2002 and 2005 and the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City , 2006 in Torino and 2010 in Vancouver .

In 1999, 2001 and 2005 Kubina celebrated winning the world championship. In 2006 he won the bronze medal with the Czechs at the Winter Olympics.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1993/94 HC Vítkovice U20 extra league 35 4th 3 7th - - - - -
1993/94 HC Vítkovice Extra league 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1994/95 HC Vítkovice U20 extra league 20th 6th 10 16 - - - - -
1994/95 HC Vítkovice Extra league 12 2 0 2 0 - - - - -
1995/96 HC Vítkovice U20 extra league 16 5 10 15th - - - - -
1995/96 HC Vítkovice Extra league 33 3 4th 7th 32 4th 0 0 0 0
1996/97 HC Vítkovice Extra league 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1996/97 Moose Jaw Warriors WHL 61 12 32 44 116 11 2 5 7th 27
1997/98 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 55 4th 8th 12 86 1 1 0 1 14th
1997/98 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 10 1 2 3 22nd - - - - -
1998/99 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 68 9 12 21st 80 - - - - -
1998/99 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 6th 2 2 4th 16 - - - - -
1999/00 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 69 8th 18th 26th 93 - - - - -
2000/01 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 70 11 19th 30th 103 - - - - -
2001/02 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 82 11 23 34 106 - - - - -
2002/03 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 75 3 19th 22nd 78 11 0 0 0 12
2003/04 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 81 17th 18th 35 85 22nd 0 4th 4th 50
2004/05 HC Vítkovice Steel Extra league 28 6th 5 11 46 12 4th 6th 10 34
2005/06 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 76 5 33 38 96 5 1 1 2 26th
2006/07 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 61 7th 14th 21st 48 - - - - -
2007/08 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 72 11 29 40 116 - - - - -
2008/09 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 14th 26th 40 94 - - - - -
2009/10 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 76 6th 32 38 66 - - - - -
2010/11 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 79 4th 19th 23 62 8th 2 1 3 10
2011/12 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 52 3 8th 11 59 - - - - -
2011/12 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 17th 0 4th 4th 15th 5 0 1 1 12
2012/13 Genève-Servette HC NLA 3 0 1 1 4th 1 0 0 0 0
U20 extra league overall 71 15th 23 38 - - - - -
Extraliga overall 75 11 9 20th 78 16 4th 6th 10 34
WHL overall 61 12 32 44 116 11 2 5 7th 27
AHL total 55 4th 8th 12 86 1 1 0 1 14th
IHL total 6th 2 2 4th 16 - - - - -
NHL overall 970 110 276 386 1123 51 3 7th 10 110

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1996 Czech Republic June World Cup 4th Place 6th 0 2 2 8th
1999 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 12 2 6th 8th 12
2001 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 9 2 3 5 18th
2002 Czech Republic Olympia 7th place 4th 0 1 1 0
2002 Czech Republic WM 5th place 7th 3 4th 7th 8th
2005 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 9 2 2 4th 10
2006 Czech Republic Olympia 3rd place, bronze 8th 1 1 2 12
2010 Czech Republic Olympia 7th place 5 0 0 0 2
Juniors overall 6th 0 2 2 8th
Men overall 54 10 17th 27 62

( 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 : Pavel Kubina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lightning deal Kubina to Flyers. nhl .com, accessed February 19, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Kubina, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Čeladná , Czechoslovakia