Richard Zedník
Date of birth | January 6, 1976 |
place of birth | Banska Bystrica , Czechoslovakia |
size | 185 cm |
Weight | 89 kg |
position | Right wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1994 , 10th lap, 249th position Washington Capitals |
Career stations | |
until 1994 | SK Banská Bystrica |
1994-1996 | Portland Winter Hawks |
1996-2001 | Washington Capitals |
2001-2006 | Canadiens de Montréal |
2006-2007 | Washington Capitals |
2007 | New York Islanders |
2007-2009 | Florida panthers |
2009-2010 | Yaroslavl locomotive |
2010-2011 | HC 05 Banská Bystrica |
2011 | AIK Solna |
Richard Zedník (born January 6, 1976 in Banská Bystrica , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player and coach , who played 793 games for the Washington Capitals , Canadiens de Montréal , New York Islanders and in the course of his active career between 1994 and 2011 Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . Zedník celebrated his greatest career success in the jersey of the Slovak national team by winning the bronze medal at the 2003 World Cup . Most recently he was assistant coach at HC 05 Banská Bystrica between 2014 and 2018 .
Career
Player career
Richard Zedník started his career in his hometown at SK Banská Bystrica . He had his first appearance in the men's team in the 1993/94 season in the second-rate first division of Slovakia. Zedník made the scouts of the NHL for the first time at the Junior European Championships in 1993 and 1994 when he represented his home country there. In the 1994 NHL Entry Draft , the Washington Capitals selected him in the tenth round as 249th. He immediately moved overseas and played for the Portland Winter Hawks in the Western Hockey League .
Shortly before the end of the 1995/96 season , he made his debut for the Capitals in the NHL. After playing with the Portland Pirates in the AHL the following year , he made his final breakthrough in the NHL in the 1997/98 season thanks to his speed and precise shot. After nine goals in the regular season, he scored seven times in 17 playoff games . In March 2001, the Capitals gave him together with Jan Bulis and a first-round draft right to the Canadiens de Montréal and received Trevor Linden , Dainius Zubrus and a draft right in return. In Montréal, among other things, he was an asset to the team with his physical game. He improved his stats year after year, scoring over 30 goals for the first time in the 2002/03 season .
For the 2006/07 season he returned to the Washington Capitals, but before the end of the season he moved to the New York Islanders . For the following season he signed as a free agent with the Florida Panthers . He spent the 2009/10 season with Lokomotive Yaroslavl in the Continental Hockey League . He then signed a contract in his home country with HC 05 Banská Bystrica , before Zedník moved to AIK Ishockey in the Elitserien in January 2011 . At the end of the season, his contract was not extended and he has been without a club since then.
Neck injury
On February 10, 2008 in the game of Buffalo Sabers against the Florida Panthers , Zedník was seriously injured. During the final third, he cut his carotid artery after being badly hit by his falling teammate Olli Jokinen's skate . Zedník then ran under his own steam and bleeding heavily to the players' bench, where he was treated immediately. After it became known that Zedník's health was stabilized on the way to the hospital, the NHL decided to continue the game. The cut was later treated surgically in a hospital in Buffalo.
In the following days, Zedník's injury put the safety of the players' equipment in question and sparked a discussion about the introduction of protection for the neck area. Almost a month and a half after the injury, on March 19, Zedník returned to the ice for the first time and ran a few laps for about five to ten minutes before the actual training of the Panthers.
International
Richard Zedník has represented his home country in international championships since 1993. He received his first appointment to the European U18 Junior Championship in 1993. In the following three years he took part in another U18 European and a U20 World Championship. He made his first appearance in the Slovak men's national team at the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 . He also took part in the 2001 , 2003 and 2005 World Championships . Another highlight was the appointment to the national team for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .
Coaching career
From 2011 Zedník coached the youth team of HC Slovan Trstena. In the winter of 2011, Zednik went to HK Altis Námestovo as a youth coach and narrowly escaped a disaster when the roof of the ice rink there collapsed on January 25, 2012. At the time of the collapse, he was leading his team's second training session and, at the first signs of the imminent collapse, he called the children off the ice with his presence of mind.
Between 2014 and 2018, Zedník was assistant coach at HC 05 Banská Bystrica .
Achievements and Awards
- 1994 Promotion to the U18 Junior B European Championship at the U18 Junior C European Championship
- 2003 bronze medal at the world championship
- 2017 Slovak champion with HC 05 Banská Bystrica (as assistant coach)
- 2018 Slovak champion with HC 05 Banská Bystrica (as assistant trainer)
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1992/93 | Iskra Smrečina Banská Bystrica | 1. SNHL | ||||||||||||
1993/94 | ŠK Iskra Banská Bystrica | 1st League | 25th | 3 | 6th | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
1994/95 | Portland Winter Hawks | WHL | 65 | 35 | 51 | 86 | 89 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20th | ||
1995/96 | Portland Winter Hawks | WHL | 61 | 44 | 37 | 81 | 154 | 7th | 8th | 4th | 12 | 23 | ||
1995/96 | Portland Pirates | AHL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 21st | 4th | 5 | 9 | 26th | ||
1995/96 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1996/97 | Portland Pirates | AHL | 56 | 15th | 20th | 35 | 70 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6th | ||
1996/97 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 11 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1997/98 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 65 | 17th | 9 | 26th | 28 | 17th | 7th | 3 | 10 | 16 | ||
1998/99 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 49 | 9 | 8th | 17th | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1999/00 | ŠaHK Iskra Banská Bystrica | 1st League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1999/00 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 69 | 19th | 16 | 35 | 54 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2000/01 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 62 | 16 | 19th | 35 | 61 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2000/01 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 12 | 3 | 6th | 9 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2001/02 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 82 | 22nd | 22nd | 44 | 59 | 4th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 6th | ||
2002/03 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 80 | 31 | 19th | 50 | 79 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2003/04 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 81 | 26th | 24 | 50 | 63 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 2 | ||
2004/05 | HKm Zvolen | Extra league | 36 | 15th | 19th | 34 | 56 | 17th | 9 | 10 | 19th | 12 | ||
2005/06 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 67 | 16 | 14th | 30th | 48 | 6th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4th | ||
2006/07 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 32 | 6th | 12 | 18th | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2006/07 | New York Islanders | NHL | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
2007/08 | Florida panthers | NHL | 54 | 15th | 11 | 26th | 43 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2008/09 | Florida panthers | NHL | 70 | 17th | 16 | 33 | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2009/10 | Yaroslavl locomotive | KHL | 37 | 6th | 12 | 18th | 56 | 17th | 3 | 5 | 8th | 22nd | ||
2010/11 | HC 05 Banská Bystrica | Extra league | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2010/11 | AIK Solna | Elitserien | 18th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
1st league overall | 26th | 3 | 6th | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
Extraliga overall | 38 | 15th | 19th | 34 | 56 | 17th | 9 | 10 | 19th | 12 | ||||
WHL overall | 126 | 79 | 88 | 167 | 243 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 22nd | 43 | ||||
AHL total | 57 | 16 | 21st | 37 | 70 | 26th | 5 | 5 | 10 | 32 | ||||
NHL overall | 745 | 200 | 179 | 379 | 563 | 48 | 16 | 10 | 26th | 41 |
International
Represented Slovakia at:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1993 | Slovakia | U18-C-EM | 2nd place | 4th | 8th | 2 | 10 | 6th | |
1994 | Slovakia | U18-C-EM | 1st place | 6th | 8th | 12 | 20th | 10 | |
1996 | Slovakia | U20 World Cup | 7th place | 6th | 5 | 2 | 7th | 10 | |
1996 | Slovakia | World cup | 7th place | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2001 | Slovakia | WM | 7th place | 7th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 14th | |
2003 | Slovakia | WM | 9 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 6th | ||
2004 | Slovakia | World cup | 7th place | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2005 | Slovakia | WM | 5th place | 7th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |
2006 | Slovakia | Olympia | 5th place | 6th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | |
2010 | Slovakia | Olympia | 4th Place | 7th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 6th | |
2011 | Slovakia | WM | 10th place | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
Juniors overall | 16 | 21st | 16 | 37 | 26th | ||||
Men overall | 48 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 50 |
( 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 )
Others
From 2002 to 2009 he was in a relationship with the French-Canadian actress Jessica Welch . During this period, the couple were married from 2005 to 2008 and from the bond they have a daughter who was born in 2003.
Web links
- Richard Zedník at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Richard Zedník at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b spox.com, Horror Injury Shadows Sabers Game , February 11, 2008, accessed May 8, 2014
- ↑ nhl.com, Gruesome Zednik injury sparks talk of neck protection for NHLers
- ↑ nhl.com, Zednik skates briefly for first time since neck surgery following on-ice accident
- ↑ Na Orave sa zrútil štadión, bol tam aj Rišo Zedník ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2012 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.
- ↑ Slovakia: No injuries when the roof of the hall collapses ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dráma na Orave: Hala sa skoro zrútila na Zedníka s deťmi! (Czech), accessed December 30, 2012
- ↑ Jessica Welch - ktotoje.sk - celebrity a osobnosti na jednom mieste (Slovak), accessed December 30, 2012
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zedník, Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zednik, Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Banska Bystrica , Czechoslovakia |