Petr Sýkora (ice hockey player, 1976)

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Petr Sýkora (ice hockey player, 1976)
Date of birth November 19, 1976
place of birth Plzeň , Czechoslovakia
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1995 , 1st round, 18th position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
until 1994 HC Plzeň
1994-1995 Detroit Vipers
1995-2002 New Jersey Devils
2002-2006 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
2004-2005 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2006 New York Rangers
2006-2007 Edmonton Oilers
2007-2009 Pittsburgh Penguins
2009-2010 Minnesota Wild
2010 HC Plzeň 1929
2010-2011 HK Dinamo Minsk
2011 HC Plzeň 1929
2011–2012 New Jersey Devils
2013 SC Bern

Petr Sýkora ( IPA : [ ˈpɛtr̩ ˈsiːkora ]; born November 19, 1976 in Plzeň , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who played 1156 games for the New Jersey Devils , Mighty Ducks of Anaheim during his active career between 1992 and 2013 , New York Rangers , Edmonton Oilers , Pittsburgh Penguins and Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . Sýkora celebrated numerous successes during this period, including the two-time world championship triumphs in 1999 and 2005 with the Czech national team and winning the Stanley Cup in 2000 with the New Jersey Devils and 2009 with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Career

The center began his career with HC Plzeň in the 1st division of Czechoslovakia or after their division in the Czech extra league , before he was selected ( drafted ) in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft as 18th in the first round by the New Jersey Devils .

Petr Sýkora in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey

Initially, the left shooter played for various Devils farm teams in the IHL and AHL , but in his first NHL season in 1995/96 he made the leap into the regular squad of the team from East Rutherford . In the 1999/00 season Sýkora won the Stanley Cup with the Devils , a year later he failed with New Jersey in the final at the Colorado Avalanche , but not without a new personal career record of 35 goals, 46 assists and 81 points in the regular season.

In 2002 Petr Sýkora was finally transferred to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in exchange for Jeff Friesen and Oleg Twerdowski , with whom he again reached the Stanley Cup final in 2003 , but this time he lost to his former teammates from New Jersey with 3: 4 wins . In the fourth longest play-off game in NHL history on April 24, 2003, Sýkora had previously scored the decisive overtime goal in the Conference semi-finals against the Dallas Stars in the fifth extension .

During the NHL lockout in 2004/05 played Sykora for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Russian Super League , while the first NHL season after this lockout, the Mighty Ducks separated from the Czechs, who then on 9 January 2006 in exchange for Maxim Kondratiev to the New York Rangers switched.

On July 7, 2006, the Rangers announced that Sýkora would not be in the squad for the 2006/07 season , whereupon he signed a one-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers on August 11 . After an unsuccessful season with Edmonton, he moved to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the summer of 2007 . After winning the Stanley Cup with the Pens, his contract was not renewed. Therefore, he was invited to the Minnesota Wild training camp on September 14, 2009 and received a contract three days later. After his contract expired, he was initially without a club before Sýkora signed a contract for a month with HC Plzeň in 1929 in October 2010 . In mid-November of the same year he was signed by HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League . For Dinamo he completed 35 KHL games in which he scored 17 points. At the end of the season he received no new contract with Dinamo, so he returned to his hometown club.

For HC Plzeň in 1929, he initially played four games in the 2011 European Trophy before receiving an invitation to the New Jersey Devils training camp in September. They finally signed him for a year at the beginning of October. In January 2013 Sýkora received a contract with SC Bern until the end of the season . Then he ended his career.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1992/93 HC Skoda Plzeň 1st League 19th 12 5 17th - - - -
1993/94 HC Plzeň Extra league 37 10 16 26th 0 4th 0 1 1 0
1993/94 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 13 4th 5 9 8th - - - - -
1994/95 Detroit Vipers IHL 29 12 17th 29 16 - - - - -
1995/96 Albany River Rats AHL 5 4th 1 5 0 - - - - -
1995/96 New Jersey Devils NHL 63 18th 24 42 32 - - - - -
1996/97 Albany River Rats AHL 43 20th 25th 45 48 4th 1 4th 5 2
1996/97 New Jersey Devils NHL 19th 1 2 3 4th 2 0 0 0 2
1997/98 Albany River Rats AHL 2 4th 1 5 0 - - - - -
1997/98 New Jersey Devils NHL 58 16 20th 36 22nd 2 0 0 0 0
1998/99 New Jersey Devils NHL 80 29 43 72 22nd 7th 3 3 6th 4th
1999/00 New Jersey Devils NHL 79 25th 43 68 26th 23 9 8th 17th 10
2000/01 New Jersey Devils NHL 73 35 46 81 32 25th 10 12 22nd 12
2001/02 New Jersey Devils NHL 73 21st 27 48 44 4th 0 1 1 0
2002/03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 82 34 25th 59 24 21st 4th 9 13 12
2003/04 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 81 23 29 52 34 - - - - -
2004/05 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk Super league 45 18th 13 31 44 5 2 3 5 8th
2005/06 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 34 7th 13 20th 28 - - - - -
2005/06 New York Rangers NHL 40 16 15th 31 22nd 4th 0 0 0 0
2006/07 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 22nd 31 53 40 - - - - -
2007/08 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 81 28 35 63 41 20th 6th 3 9 16
2008/09 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 76 25th 21st 46 36 7th 0 1 1 0
2009/10 Minnesota Wild NHL 14th 2 1 3 8th - - - - -
2010/11 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 13 5 8th 13 14th - - - - -
2010/11 HK Dinamo Minsk KHL 28 8th 7th 15th 58 7th 1 1 2 4th
2011/12 New Jersey Devils NHL 82 21st 23 44 40 18th 2 3 5 6th
2012/13 SC Bern NLA 5 2 2 4th 0 4th 1 2 3 2
Extraliga overall 73 27 30th 57 14th 4th 0 1 1 0
IHL total 42 16 22nd 38 24 - - - - -
AHL total 50 28 27 55 48 4th 1 4th 5 2
NHL overall 1017 323 398 721 455 139 34 41 75 62

International

Represented Czechoslovakia in:

Represented the Czech Republic at:

 

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1993 Czechoslovakia U18 European Championship 3rd place, bronze 6th 6th 0 6th 20th
1994 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 5th place 7th 6th 2 8th 6th
1994 Czech Republic U18 European Championship 3rd place, bronze 5 5 4th 9 4th
1995 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 6th place 3 0 0 0 0
1996 Czech Republic World cup 8th place 1 0 1 1 0
1998 Czech Republic WM 3rd place, bronze 6th 0 2 2 2
1999 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 6th 1 5 6th 14th
2002 Czech Republic Olympia 7th place 4th 1 0 1 0
2004 Czech Republic World cup 3rd place 3 0 1 1 2
2005 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 9 2 1 3 4th
Juniors overall 21st 17th 6th 23 30th
Men overall 29 4th 10 14th 22nd

( 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 : Petr Sýkora  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sports.espn.go.com, NHL Playoffs - Longest OT games
  2. ↑ Michael Russo: Sykora coming to Minnesota on “tryout”. (No longer available online.) Minneapolis Star-Tribune , September 14, 2009, archived from the original on September 22, 2009 ; Retrieved September 14, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Sýkora, Petr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sykora, Petr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Plzeň , Czechoslovakia