Rastislav Pavlikovský

Rastislav Pavlikovský
Date of birth	March 2nd 1977
place of birth	Dubnica nad Váhom , Czechoslovakia
size	180 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1998 , 9th lap, 246th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
until 1997	HC Dukla Trenčín
1997-1998	Utah grizzlies
1998-2000	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
2000	Jokerit Helsinki
2000-2002	HV 71 Jönköping
2002-2003	Houston Eros
2003-2004	Leksands IF
2004-2005	Mora IK
2005-2006	MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik
2006-2008	ZSC Lions
2008-2009	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2009	HC Litvínov
2009-2010	Örebro HK
2010-2011	AIK Solna
2011	Mora IK
since 2011	AIK Solna

Rastislav Pavlikovský (born March 2, 1977 in Dubnica nad Váhom , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with AIK Solna in the Swedish Elitserien since December 2011 .

Career

Pavlikovský comes from the offspring of HC Dukla Trenčín , for whom he made his debut in the 1993/94 season in the Slovak Extra League. He remained loyal to his hometown club until 1997 and moved to the American minor leagues during the 1997/98 season . There he went on the ice for various teams in the International Hockey League and American Hockey League . During the 1998 NHL Entry Draft was Pavlikovský by the Ottawa Senators in the ninth round in a total of 246 office drafted , but only got the farm team of the Senators, the Grand Rapids Griffins , are used. In 2000 he returned to Europe and joined the Elitserien club HV 71 Jönköping . Further stations in Sweden's top division were Leksands IF , Mora IK and MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik .

For the season 2002/03 he moved again to North America and signed a contract with the Houston Eros from the AHL, with whom he reached the AHL championship at the end of the season. Then he returned to Sweden. The Slovak joined the ZSC Lions before the 2006/07 season and played there in two seasons 73 NLA games, in which he scored a total of 53 points.

For the 2008/09 season he signed the management of HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Continental Hockey League . After the season he was initially without a club before he was hired as a test player by HC BENZINA Litvínov in November 2009 . After two games for the club, he left it again. In December of the same year he was signed by the Swedish second division club Örebro HK . He spent the 2010/11 season in the Elitserien at AIK Solna . The Slovakian signed for the Swedish second division team Mora IK the following season before returning to AIK Solna in December 2011.

International

Pavlikovský began to represent his home country in international tournaments early in his career. First he played for the U18 and U20 juniors of Slovakia before he was appointed to the squad for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . In the same year he took part in the World Cup, where he won the gold medal with the Slovak national team. Further World Cup participations followed in 2004 and 2006 , as well as participation in the World Cup of Hockey 2004 .

Achievements and Awards

• 1995 Top scorer in the European Junior B Championship
• 1997 Slovak champion with HC Dukla Trenčín
• 1997 Best assists in the Junior World Championship (together with Ľubomír Vaic )
• 1998 IHL All-Star Game
• 2002 gold medal at the world championship
• 2003 Calder Cup win with the Houston Eros

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	1	46	5	12	17th	56
KHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Elitserien main round	6th	233	55	96	151	356
Elitserien Playoffs	3	21st	4th	6th	10	30th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Rastislav Pavlikovský at hockeydb.com (English)
• Rastislav Pavlikovský at eurohockey.com
• Rastislav Pavlikovský at eliteprospects.com (English)