Richard Pánik

Slovakia Richard Pánik


Date of birth	February 7, 1991
place of birth	Martin , Czechoslovakia
size	188 cm
Weight	92 kg

position	Right wing
number	# 14
Shot hand	Left

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2009 , 3rd round, 69th position Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 2nd round, 52nd position Tampa Bay Lightning

Career stations

until 2006	MHC Martin
2006-2009	HC Oceláři Třinec
2009-2010	Windsor Spitfires
2010	Belleville Bulls
2010-2011	Guelph Storm
2011–2012	Norfolk Admirals
2012-2013	Syracuse crunch
2013-2014	Tampa Bay Lightning Syracuse Crunch
2014-2016	Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Marlies
2016-2018	Chicago Blackhawks
2018-2019	Arizona Coyotes
since 2019	Washington Capitals

Richard Pánik (born February 7, 1991 in Martin , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League since July 2019 and plays for them in the position of right winger .

Career

Pánik in the Tampa Bay Lightning jersey (2014)

Richard Pánik began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of the MHC Martin , where he was active until 2006. He then moved to the youth department of HC Oceláři Třinec , for whose professional team he was on the ice from 2007 to 2009 in the Czech extra league . Subsequently, the winger was selected in the third round of the KHL Junior Draft in the third round as a total of 69th player by Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg and in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in the second round as the 52nd player of the Tampa Bay Lightning . The Slovak finally decided on the Tampa Bay Lightning offer and went to North America, where he was active from 2009 to 2011 for the Windsor Spitfires , Belleville Bulls and Guelph Storm in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League . He also played five games for Tampa's farm team Norfolk Admirals from the American Hockey League in the 2009/10 season , for which he played exclusively in the 2011/12 season. He spent the following season at the same time with the Lightning and their new farm team, the Syracuse Crunch . For the 2013/14 season , Pánik then made the permanent jump into the NHL squad.

In October 2014, the Lightning wanted to send him to Syracuse via the waiver , although he was obliged by the Toronto Maple Leafs . In the 2014/15 season, the Slovak completed 76 NHL games for the Maple Leafs, but was unable to defend this regular place in the following season and was given to the Toronto Marlies in October 2015 . After he was not called back to the NHL squad in the first half of the season, the Maple Leafs gave him to the Chicago Blackhawks in January 2016 , with Jeremy Morin moving to Toronto in return .

After two years in Chicago, the attacker and Laurent Dauphin were transferred to the Arizona Coyotes in January 2018 , with the Blackhawks receiving Anthony Duclair and Adam Clendening . In Arizona, Pánik was active until the end of the 2018/19 season when he signed a four-year contract with Washington Capitals as a free agent in July 2019 , which should earn him an average annual salary of $ 2.75 million.

International

For Slovakia , Pánik took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in 2007 and 2008 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 2009 , 2010 and 2011 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad for the first time at the 2010 World Cup in Germany . Further nominations followed for the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2014 , 2015 and 2019 World Championships .

Achievements and Awards

2012 Calder Cup win with the Norfolk Admirals
2013 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2007/08	HC Oceláři Třinec	Extra league	6th	0	0	0	-3	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HC Havířov Panthers	1st League	3	2	1	3	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HC Oceláři Třinec	Extra league	15th	1	1	2	-4	4th	4th	0	0	0	-1	0
2009/10	Windsor Spitfires	OHL	33	9	9	18th	+15	19th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Belleville Bulls	OHL	27	12	11	23	-12	36	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Norfolk Admirals	AHL	5	0	1	1	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Belleville Bulls	OHL	27	14th	17th	31	± 0	33	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Guelph Storm	OHL	24	13	12	25th	–6	42	6th	1	2	3	-4	10
2011/12	Norfolk Admirals	AHL	64	19th	22nd	41	+13	62	18th	5	1	6th	+4	23
2012/13	Syracuse crunch	AHL	51	22nd	19th	41	+17	81	16	9	5	14th	+3	59
2012/13	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	25th	5	4th	9	-2	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Syracuse crunch	AHL	13	3	8th	11	+1	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	50	3	10	13	–9	21st	2	0	0	0	-2	4th
2014/15	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	76	11	6th	17th	-8th	49	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Toronto Marlies	AHL	33	9	16	25th	+5	34	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	30th	6th	2	8th	+4	6th	6th	0	3	3	± 0	6th
2016/17	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	82	22nd	22nd	44	+14	58	4th	0	1	1	-3	2
2017/18	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	37	6th	10	16	+3	26th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	35	8th	11	19th	+4	12	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	75	14th	19th	33	-3	44	-	-	-	-	-	-
Extraliga overall			21st	1	1	2	–7	4th	4th	0	0	0	-1	0
OHL total			111	48	49	97	-3	130	6th	1	2	3	-4	10
AHL total			166	53	66	119	+35	185	34	14th	6th	20th	+7	82
NHL overall			410	75	84	159	+3	220	12	0	4th	4th	-5	12

International

Represented Slovakia at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2007	Slovakia	U18 World Cup	5th place	6th	0	2	2	-1	2
2008	Slovakia	U18 World Cup	7th place	6th	4th	6th	10	+4	0
2009	Slovakia	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	2	3	5	-1	4th
2010	Slovakia	U20 World Cup	8th place	6th	6th	2	8th	± 0	2
2010	Slovakia	WM	12th place	6th	0	2	2	+3	6th
2011	Slovakia	U20 World Cup	8th place	6th	7th	2	9	+1	12
2014	Slovakia	Olympia	11th place	4th	0	0	0	-2	0
2014	Slovakia	WM	9th place	7th	0	0	0	-5	2
2015	Slovakia	WM	9th place	7th	0	2	2	-2	2
2019	Slovakia	WM	9th place	6th	1	6th	7th	+3	2
Juniors overall				31	19th	15th	34	+3	20th
Men overall				30th	1	10	11	-3	12

( 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 : Richard Pánik - collection of images, videos and audio files

Player biography on the Washington Capitals website
Richard Pánik at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Blackhawks acquire panic. blackhawks.nhl.com, January 3, 2015, accessed January 4, 2015 .
^ Coyotes Acquire Panik, Dauphin from Chicago for Duclair, Clendening. nhl.com, January 10, 2018, accessed on January 11, 2018 .

Squad of the Washington Capitals in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Pánik, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Panic, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH	Martin , Czechoslovakia

[1] Blackhawks acquire panic. blackhawks.nhl.com, January 3, 2015, accessed January 4, 2015 .

[2] Coyotes Acquire Panik, Dauphin from Chicago for Duclair, Clendening. nhl.com, January 10, 2018, accessed on January 11, 2018 .