Roman Kukumberg

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Roman Kukumberg
Date of birth April 8, 1980
place of birth Bratislava , Czechoslovakia
size 184 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2004 , 4th round, 113th position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1996-1999 SHK Danubia Bratislava
1999-2000 MHC Nitra
2000-2004 HC Dukla Trenčín
2004-2005 Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2005-2006 Toronto Marlies
2006-2007 HC Slovan Bratislava
2007-2008 Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2008-2009 HC Slovan Bratislava
2009-2010 HK Lada Tolyatti
2010 Ak Bars Kazan
HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2010-2011 Amur Khabarovsk
2011-2014 HC Slovan Bratislava
since 2014 Mountfield HK

Roman Kukumberg (born April 8, 1980 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with Mountfield HK in the Czech extra league since July 2014 .

Career

Roman Kukumberg began his career as an ice hockey player at SHK Danubia Bratislava for whose junior team he was active from 1996 to 1999. He also took part in the 1997/98 and 1998/99 seasons in the first division of the Danubian professional team . After he was in the 1999/2000 season at MHC Nitra also in both the junior and the professional team on the ice, he moved to HC Dukla Trenčín , for whom he played the following four seasons in the Slovak extra league, and with whom he was Slovak champion for the first time in the 2003/04 season . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2004 in the fourth round as a total of 113th player from the Toronto Maple Leafs . First, however, he played a season in the Russian Super League for Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk before he scored a total of eight scorer points in 54 games in the 2005/06 season for the farm team of the Maple Leafs, the Toronto Marlies from the American Hockey League .

After a year in North America, Kukumberg returned to his Slovak homeland, where he received a contract with HC Slovan Bratislava , with which he became Slovak champion for the second time in his career in the 2007/08 season . Despite the success, the center left Bratislava to play for his ex-club Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the Russian super league.

After only one year he returned to Slovan Bratislava, with whom he took part in the newly founded Champions Hockey League in the 2008/09 season , in which he was used in all four group games of his team and scored two goals. With Slovan he also reached the playoff semifinals of the Extraliga . In May 2009, Kukumberg was signed by HK Lada Tolyatti from the Continental Hockey League . This transferred him to league rivals Ak Bars Kazan at the end of January 2010 , with whom he won the Gagarin Cup at the end of the season .

In June 2010 he was committed by HK tractor Chelyabinsk , for which he completed 17 KHL games before he left the club in mid-October of the same year and was committed by Amur Khabarovsk . For the 2011/12 season he returned one more time to HC Slovan Bratislava in the Extraliga. At the end of the season he won another Slovak championship with the club before HC Slovan was included in the Continental Hockey League (KHL) for the following season . In the following two playing years, Kukumberg completed over 90 KHL games for Slovan before he was signed by Mountfield HK from the Czech extra league in July 2014 .

International

For Slovakia , Kukumberg took part in the junior division exclusively in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2000 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2004 , 2007 and 2010 World Championships .

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
KHL main round 4th 188 35 32 67 95
KHL playoffs 2 24 6th 1 7th 10
Super League main round 2 66 10 12 22nd 42
Super League Playoffs 2 6th 0 0 0 6th

(Status: end of the 2013/14 season)

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personal data
SURNAME Kukumberg, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Czechoslovakia