Radim Vrbata

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Radim Vrbata
Date of birth June 13, 1981
place of birth Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia
size 185 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
number # 17
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 7th lap, 212th position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
until 1998 HC Mladá Boleslav
1998-2000 Olympiques de Hull
2000-2001 Cataractes de Shawinigan
2001-2003 Colorado Avalanche
2003-2006 Carolina Hurricanes
2006-2007 Chicago Blackhawks
2007-2008 Phoenix Coyotes
2008 Tampa Bay Lightning
2008-2009 BK Mladá Boleslav
2009-2014 Phoenix Coyotes
2014-2016 Vancouver Canucks
2016-2017 Arizona Coyotes
2017-2018 Florida panthers

Radim Vrbata (born June 13, 1981 in Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player . The right winger played over 1,000 games for seven teams in the National Hockey League between 2001 and 2018 , most of them for the Phoenix / Arizona Coyotes . With the Czech national team he won the gold medal at the 2005 World Cup .

Career

Radim Vrbata began his career in the offspring of HC Mladá Boleslav , who played in the junior extra league until the end of the 1997/98 season. In the summer of 1998 he decided to move to North America and completed a total of three seasons in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec for the Olympiques de Hull and Cataractes de Shawinigan . During the 1999 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the seventh round by the Colorado Avalanche in a total of 212th place. His first appearance in a men's team was in the AHL play- offs in 2001 when he played a game for the Hershey Bears .

The following season he continued to play with the Bears in the AHL, but was appointed to the NHL Avalanche squad in November 2001. He played his first NHL game on November 20, 2001 against the New York Rangers , where he also scored his first NHL goal. From then on he was a permanent member of the Avalanche squad and reached the second round of the 2002 playoffs with his team . In March 2003, Vrbata was given to the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for Bates Battaglia . During the lockout 2004/05 he played in his home country with Bílí Tygři Liberec and reached third place in the Extraliga , he also completed two second division games for his home club. After returning to the Hurricanes in 2005, he was given over to the Chicago Blackhawks on December 30, 2005 . In Chicago he was able to improve his game and his point yield significantly, but was still sent to the Phoenix Coyotes in the summer of 2007 , who in return gave Kevyn Adams to the Blackhawks.

After a very successful season in Phoenix for Vrbata, he signed a three-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning on July 1, 2008 . However, since he found his way there very poorly and only scored three goals in the first two months of the season, he was released from the Lightning team at his own request and loaned to his home club BK Mladá Boleslav. A few weeks later he loaned him to HC Liberec , where Vrbata ended the season. Since Tampa still had the transfer rights of the Czech, they transferred him back to Arizona on July 21, 2009 to the Coyotes, who in return sent Todd Fedoruk and David Hale to Tampa.

In July 2014, he signed a two-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks as an unrestricted free agent . There he played in the following season with 63 points in 78 games, the highest point season of his NHL career and with 31 goals was the most successful goalscorer within the team. In August 2016, after his contract expired, he returned to the Arizona Coyotes , where he played his 1000th game in the NHL during the 2016/17 season. In July 2017, the Czech joined the Florida Panthers , with whom he spent his final NHL season and finally declared his active career over after the 2017/18 season. In total, Vrbata had completed 1099 games and scored 641 points scorer.

International

Radim Vrbata has participated in four world championships in his career: With the U20 national team , he won the gold medal at the U20 World Championship in 2001 and was used in the 2003 , 2005 and 2008 World Championship for men. He won the gold medal with his team in 2005.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Vrbata in the jersey of the Vancouver Canucks (2015)
Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1997/98 HC Mladá Boleslav U18 extra league 35 42 31 73 4th - - - - -
1998/99 Olympiques de Hull LHJMQ 54 22nd 38 60 16 23 6th 13 19th 6th
1999/00 Olympiques de Hull LHJMQ 59 29 45 74 26th 15th 3 9 12 8th
2000/01 Cataractes de Shawinigan LHJMQ 55 56 64 120 67 10 4th 7th 11 4th
2001/02 Hershey Bears AHL 20th 8th 14th 22nd 8th - - - - -
2001/02 Colorado Avalanche NHL 52 18th 12 30th 14th 9 0 0 0 0
2002/03 Colorado Avalanche NHL 66 11 19th 30th 16 - - - - -
2002/03 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 10 5 0 5 2 - - - - -
2003/04 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 80 12 13 25th 24 - - - - -
2004/05 Bílí Tygři Liberec Extra league 45 18th 21st 39 91 13 3 2 5 0
2004/05 BK Mladá Boleslav 1st League 2 0 1 1 6th - - - - -
2005/06 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 16 2 3 5 6th - - - - -
2005/06 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 45 13 21st 34 22nd - - - - -
2006/07 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 77 14th 27 41 26th - - - - -
2007/08 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 76 27 29 56 14th - - - - -
2008/09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 18th 3 3 6th 8th - - - - -
2008/09 BK Mladá Boleslav Extra league 11 5 3 8th 18th - - - - -
2008/09 Bílí Tygři Liberec Extra league 7th 7th 2 9 2 3 0 1 1 2
2009/10 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 82 24 19th 43 24 7th 2 2 4th 4th
2010/11 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 79 19th 29 48 20th 4th 2 3 5 0
2011/12 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 77 35 27 62 24 16 2 3 5 8th
2012/13 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 34 12 16 28 14th - - - - -
2013/14 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 80 20th 31 51 22nd - - - - -
2014/15 Vancouver Canucks NHL 79 31 32 63 20th 6th 2 2 4th 0
2015/16 Vancouver Canucks NHL 63 13 14th 27 12 - - - - -
2016/17 Arizona Coyotes NHL 81 20th 35 55 16 - - - - -
2017/18 Florida panthers NHL 42 5 9 14th 16 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 168 107 147 254 109 48 13 29 42 18th
Extraliga overall 63 30th 26th 56 111 16 3 3 6th 2
NHL overall 1057 284 339 623 294 42 8th 10 18th 12

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2001 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 1 2 3 4th
2003 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 9 3 3 6th 2
2005 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 3 0 1 1 0
2008 Czech Republic WM 5th place 7th 5 2 7th 4th
2013 Czech Republic WM 7th place 8th 2 1 3 4th
Juniors overall 7th 1 2 3 4th
Men overall 27 10 7th 17th 10

( 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 : Radim Vrbata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sportovci.cz, Radim Vrbata - Kariéra sportovce ( Memento of the original dated December 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportovci.cz
  2. ↑ tsn.ca, Tampa Bay adds Vrbata from Phoenix
personal data
SURNAME Vrbata, Radim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia