Richard Stehlík

Richard Stehlík
Date of birth	June 22, 1984
place of birth	Skalica , Czechoslovakia
size	195 cm
Weight	110 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 3rd round, 76th position Nashville Predators
Career stations
until 2002	HK 36 Skalica
2002-2003	Castors de Sherbrooke
2003-2004	Lewiston MAINEiacs
2004-2005	HK 36 Skalica
2005	HC Dukla Trenčín
2005-2007	HC Sparta Prague
2007-2008	Milwaukee Admirals HC Sparta Prague
2008-2010	HC Vítkovice Steel
2010-2011	HC Kometa Brno
2011–2012	Salawat Yulayev Ufa Atlant Mytishchi
2012	MODO hockey
2012-2016	HC Vítkovice Steel
since 2016	HC Oceláři Třinec

Richard Stehlík (born June 22, 1984 in Skalica , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with HC Oceláři Třinec in the Czech extra league since January 2016 .

Career

Richard Stehlík began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of the HK 36 Skalica , for whose professional team he was active in the Slovak extra league from 2000 to 2002 . Then defender played for one year each in the Canadian Junior League QMJHL for the Castors de Sherbrooke and after their relocation for their successor Lewiston MAINEiacs . During this period he was selected in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft in the third round as a total of 76 players by the Nashville Predators . First, however, he returned to his Slovak homeland for the 2004/05 season , where he began the season with his hometown club from Skalica in the Extraliga, before finishing it with league rivals HC Dukla Trenčín .

Richard Stehlík (left) in the jersey of Salawat Julajew Ufa

In the summer of 2005, Stehlík received a contract with HC Sparta Prague from the Czech extra league . With the capital city club he was Czech champions twice in a row in the 2005/06 and 2006/07 seasons . He then moved to the organization of his draft team Nashville Predators, in which he began the following season with Nashville's farm team Milwaukee Admirals in the American Hockey League . After only 14 completed games, he decided to return to HC Sparta Prague, with which he took second place in the IIHF European Champions Cup at European level . From 2008 to 2010 the Slovak was on the ice for HC Vítkovice Steel in the Czech Republic. With the team he was runner- up in the 2009/10 season. In the following season , the left shooter HC Kometa Brno joined, with whom he only succeeded in relegation to relegation.

For the 2011/12 season Stehlík was committed by Salawat Yulayev Ufa from the Continental Hockey League . For the team he scored four goals and one assist in 24 games before his contract was terminated prematurely at the end of December 2011. In early January 2012, Stehlík was signed by Atlant Mytishchi .

From July 2012 he was under contract with MODO Hockey before returning to HC Vítkovice in December of the same year.

On January 28, 2016 he was signed by the Austrian club EC VSV as a replacement for Matt Kelly and ran for Villach with the number 38. He played his first game for the new club on January 29 against the EC Graz 99ers , which was won 3-2. He then used a contract release clause to switch to the Czech extra division HC Oceláři Třinec .

International

For Slovakia , Stehlík took part in the junior division in the U18 Junior World Championships in 2001 and 2002 and the U20 Junior World Championships in 2002 , 2003 and 2004 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2006 and 2007 World Championships .

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2006 Czech champion with HC Sparta Prague
• 2007 Czech champion with HC Sparta Prague
• 2011 Most goals by a defender of the Extraliga

International

• 2002 All-Star Team of the U18 Junior World Championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Extraliga (Slovakia) main round	3	133	11	9	20th	87
Extraliga (Slovakia) playoffs	2	15th	3	3	6th	64
Extraliga (Czech Republic) main round	6th	238	31	37	68	332
Extraliga (Czech Republic) playoffs	5	58	2	6th	8th	64
Extraliga (Czech Republic) delegation	1	9	3	1	4th	33

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Richard Stehlík at hockeydb.com (English)
• Richard Stehlík at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ SAAM obliges defenders. In: kleinezeitung.at =. January 28, 2016, accessed April 17, 2020 .