Tomáš Záborský

Tomáš Záborský
Date of birth	November 14, 1987
place of birth	Trenčín , Czechoslovakia
size	181 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 5th lap, 137th position New York Rangers
Career stations
until 2006	HC Dukla Trenčín
2006-2008	Saginaw Spirit
2008-2009	Hartford Wolf Pack Charlotte Checkers Dayton Bombers
2009–2012	Ässät Pori
2012-2013	HK Awangard Omsk
2013-2014	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2014-2016	Helsingfors IFK
2016-2017	Brynäs IF
since 2017	Tappara

Tomáš Záborský (born November 14, 1987 in Trenčín , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with Tappara in the Finnish Liiga since 2017 .

Career

Tomáš Záborský began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HC Dukla Trenčín , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Slovakian extra league in the 2005/06 season . In his rookie year he remained pointless in four games and received two penalty minutes. In addition, he completed five games as a loan player for HK 95 Považská Bystrica in the first division , the second Slovak division. Then the winger was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2006 in the fifth round as a total of 137th player by the New York Rangers . First, however, he played for two years for the Saginaw Spirit in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , before he came towards the end of the 2007/08 season in two games for the Rangers farm team Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League , where he was used prepared a gate. In the following season he appeared in parallel for Hartford in the AHL and the Charlotte Checkers and Dayton Bombers in the ECHL .

For the 2009/10 season Záborský returned to Europe and signed a contract with Ässät Pori from the Finnish SM-liiga . There he was able to improve every year in the following years before he achieved his final breakthrough in the 2011/12 season . First he was elected Player of November and December, before he won the Lasse Oksanen Trophy as the best player in the main round, the Kultainen kypärä as the best player in the SM-liiga season and the Aarne Honkavaara Trophy as the best main round at the end of the season - Goalscorer received.

Because of these successes, Záborský was taken in early June 2012 by HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League under contract, where he immediately advanced to the club's top scorer. In mid-October 2013, the management of Awangard swapped him for Štefan Ružička from Salawat Julajew Ufa . In his second KHL year he was unable to build on the performance shown and therefore returned to the Finnish Liiga in summer 2014, this time to the HIFK .

International

For Slovakia , Záborský took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2007 . During the tournament he scored one goal and two assists in six games.

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 SM-liiga player of the month November
• 2011 SM-lliga player of the month December
• 2012 Lasse Oksanen Trophy
• 2012 Kultainen kypärä
• 2012 Aarne-Honkavaara-Trophy (top scorer of the SM-liiga)
• 2012 All-Star- Team of the SM-liiga
• 2013 KHL All-Star Game

SM liiga statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	142	67	51	118	114
Playoffs	1	6th	0	0	0	0

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

• Tomáš Záborský at eliteprospects.com (English)