Robert Kron

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Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Robert Kron Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 27, 1967
place of birth Brno , Czechoslovakia
size 178 cm
Weight 79 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1985 , 5th lap, 88th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
1984-1988 Zetor Brno
1988-1990 Dukla Trenčín
1990-1993 Vancouver Canucks
1993-1997 Hartford Whalers
1997-2000 Carolina Hurricanes
2000-2002 Columbus Blue Jackets
2002-2003 Rauman Lukko

Robert Kron (born February 27, 1967 in Brno , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current scout . The left winger played over 700 games for the Vancouver Canucks , Hartford Whalers , Carolina Hurricanes and Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League between 1990 and 2002 . With the Czechoslovak national team he won the bronze medal at the world championships in 1989 and 1990 and took part in the Canada Cup in 1991 .

Career

Robert Kron spent the first years of his professional career in his hometown Brno, only briefly with Lokomotiva Ingstav Brno in the second-class 1st Česká národní hokejová league and then with Zetor Brno in the 1st division , the top division of Czechoslovakia. In the season 1987/88 he led the team as team captain , but could not prevent relegation, so he moved to Dukla Trenčín for the following season within the 1st division . The winger was active there for two years and increased his personal statistics significantly to 44 scorer points from 39 games before he returned to Zetor Brno towards the end of the 1989/90 season to take part in the relegation round with the team, which has meanwhile been promoted again. There, despite seven goals in ten games by Kron, the team had to return to the second division.

For the 1990/91 season, the Czech moved to the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League (NHL), which had already selected him in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft in 88th position. As a rookie , he scored 32 points in 76 games, but subsequently failed to establish himself permanently in the Canucks squad. As a result, he was given in March 1993, including a third-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 1993 to the Hartford Whalers , while in return Murray Craven and a five-round vote in the same draft moved to Vancouver. In his first full season in Hartford, Kron scored his personal career record of 50 points with 24 goals and 26 assists, which he should achieve again in 1995/96. He then moved the franchise to Raleigh , where it was henceforth known as Carolina Hurricanes .

The attacker was active for the Hurricanes for three more years until he was selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2000 NHL Expansion Draft . The newly accepted into the NHL team should be his last career station in North America, as he returned to Europe after two seasons there and let his career end with Rauman Lukko in the Finnish SM-liiga . In total, he had played 771 NHL games and recorded 338 points scorer.

After his active career, Kron settled in Raleigh with his family and returned to the Carolina Hurricanes, for which he has been a scout since the 2008/09 season .

International

At U18 level, Kron took part with the Czechoslovak selection at the European Championships in 1984 and 1985 , where they won a silver and a bronze medal. He then represented the U20 national team of his home country at the Junior World Championships in 1985 , 1986 and 1987 . The team won the silver medal in 1985 and 1987, while in 1987 Kron was honored as the best attacker of the tournament.

The winger made his debut for the senior national team of Czechoslovakia at the 1989 World Cup , where the selection won the bronze medal as well as the following year . Kron's last international tournament was the 1991 Canada Cup , in which the team only finished sixth and last.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1983/84 Lokomotiva Ingstav Brno 1. ČNHL 3 0 1 1 0 - - - - - -
1984/85 Zetor Brno 1st League 40 6th 8th 14th 6th - - - - - -
1985/86 Zetor Brno 1st League 44 5 6th 11 - - - - - -
1986/87 Zetor Brno 1st League 34 18th 11 29 10 - - - - - -
1987/88 Zetor Brno 1st League 44 14th 7th 21st 30th - - - - - -
1988/89 Dukla Trenčín 1st League 32 21st 15th 36 26th 11 7th 4th 11
1989/90 Dukla Trenčín 1st League 39 22nd 22nd 44 - - - - - -
1989/90 Zetor Brno 1st League - - - - - - 10 1 7 1 2 1 9 1 2 1
1990/81 Vancouver Canucks NHL 76 12 20th 32 –11 21st - - - - - -
1991/92 Vancouver Canucks NHL 36 2 2 4th –9 2 11 1 2 3 ± 0 2
1992/93 Vancouver Canucks NHL 32 10 11 21st +10 14th - - - - - -
1992/93 Hartford Whalers NHL 13 4th 2 6th -5 4th - - - - - -
1993/94 Hartford Whalers NHL 77 24 26th 50 ± 0 8th - - - - - -
1994/95 Hartford Whalers NHL 37 10 8th 18th -3 10 - - - - - -
1995/96 Hartford Whalers NHL 77 22nd 28 50 -1 6th - - - - - -
1996/97 Hartford Whalers NHL 68 10 12 22nd -18 10 - - - - - -
1997/98 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 81 16 20th 36 -8th 12 - - - - - -
1998/99 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 75 9 16 25th -13 10 5 2 0 2 +2 0
1999/00 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 81 13 27 40 -4 8th - - - - - -
2000/01 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 59 8th 11 19th +4 10 - - - - - -
2001/02 Syracuse crunch AHL 6th 2 4th 6th +1 5 - - - - - -
2001/02 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 59 4th 11 15th -14 4th - - - - - -
2002/03 Rauman Lukko SM-liiga 23 4th 8th 12 ± 0 6th - - - - - -
1st league overall 233 86 69 155 21st 14th 6th 20th
NHL overall 771 144 194 338 -72 119 16 3 2 5 +2 2

International

Represented Czechoslovakia in:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1984 Czechoslovakia U18 European Championship Silver medal 5 2 2 4th 6th
1985 Czechoslovakia June World Cup Silver medal 7th 3 5 8th 4th
1985 Czechoslovakia U18 European Championship Bronze medal 5 3 4th 7th 0
1986 Czechoslovakia June World Cup 5th place 7th 3 1 4th 6th
1987 Czechoslovakia June World Cup Silver medal 5 1 2 3 4th
1989 Czechoslovakia WM Bronze medal 10 2 2 4th 2
1990 Czechoslovakia WM Bronze medal 10 0 1 1 0
1991 Czechoslovakia Canada Cup 6th place 4th 0 0 0 0
Juniors overall 29 12 14th 26th 20th
Men overall 24 2 3 5 2

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Smith: Where in the World is Robert Kron? nhl.com, November 19, 2012, accessed January 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kron, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and scout
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Czechoslovakia