List of Slovaks in the NHL

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The following is a list of all slovak ice hockey players which played, or are playing in the National Hockey League. It is sorted by all-time points scored.

Since the 1958-59 season, 66 slovak forwards and defencemen have played at least one game in the NHL. Also, there has appeared three goalies native from Slovakia.

At the top of this list, there is the unranked position of Stan Mikita. Stan Mikita was born in Slovakia, but left Slovakia (Czechoslovakia) at the age of 8. He learned to play hockey in Canada, not Slovakia, so his first place may be disputed by some sources. All other players started their pro-careers in Europe.

Active players are in bold. (At least one game played in 2005-06 season)

[edit] All-time scoring leaders

	Player	Teams	Seasons	GP	Gls	Ast	Pts
	Stan Mikita	Chicago Black Hawks	1958 - 1980	1394	541	926	1467
1	Peter Stastny	Quebec, New Jersey, St.Louis	1980 - 1995	977	450	789	1239
2	Peter Bondra	Washington, Ottawa, Atlanta	1990 - 2006	1044	498	380	878
3	Zigmund Palffy	NY Islanders, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh	1993 - 2006	684	329	384	713
4	Anton Stastny	Quebec Nordiques	1980 - 1989	650	252	384	636
5	Jozef Stumpel	Boston, Los Angeles, Florida	1991 - 2006	832	166	434	600
6	Miroslav Satan	Edmonton, Buffalo, NY Islanders	1995 - 2006	786	294	291	585
7	Pavol Demitra	Ottawa, St.Louis, Los Angeles	1993 - 2006	611	241	340	581
8	Marian Hossa	Ottawa, Atlanta	1997 - 2006	547	227	255	482
9	Robert Svehla	Florida, Toronto	1994 - 2003	655	68	267	335
10	Richard Zednik	Washington, Montreal	1995 - 2006	579	161	138	299
11	Marian Stastny	Quebec, Toronto	1981 - 1986	322	121	173	294
12	Michal Handzus	St.Louis, Phoenix, Philadelphia	1998 - 2006	509	112	180	292
13	Marian Gaborik	Minnesota Wild	2000 - 2006	360	134	140	274
14	Peter Ihnacak	Toronto Maple Leafs	1982 - 1990	417	102	165	267
15	Ladislav Nagy	St.Louis, Phoenix	1999 - 2006	317	94	136	230
16	Zdeno Ciger	N.Jersey, Edmonton, NYR, Tampa Bay	1990 - 1996, 2001-02	352	94	134	228
17	Lubomir Visnovsky	Los Angeles Kings	2000 - 2006	348	44	136	180
18	Zdeno Chara	NY Islanders, Ottawa	1997 - 2006	530	57	118	175
19	Vladimir Orszagh	NY Islanders, Nashville, St.Louis	1997 - 2000, 2001 - 2006	289	54	65	119
20	Lubos Bartecko	St.Louis, Atlanta	1998 - 2003	257	46	65	111
21	Ronald Petrovicky	Calgary, NY Rangers, Atlanta	2000 - 2006	311	38	48	86
22	Branko Radivojevic	Phoenix, Philadelphia	2001 - 2006	238	34	45	79
23	Lubomir Sekeras	Minnesota Wild, Dallas	2000 - 2004	213	18	53	71
24	Radoslav Suchy	Phoenix, Columbus	1999 - 2006	451	13	58	71
25	Juraj Kolnik	NY Islanders, Florida	2000 - 2006	176	35	35	70
26	Robert Petrovicky	Hartford, Dallas, St.Louis, Tampa B., NYI	1992 - 1997, 1998 - 2001	208	27	38	65
27	Tomas Surovy	Pittsburgh Penguins	2002 - 2006	126	27	32	59
28	Marek Svatos	Colorado Avalanche	2003 - 2006	65	34	18	52
29	Andrej Meszaros	Ottawa Senators	2005-06	82	10	29	39
30	Marcel Hossa	Montreal, NY Rangers	2001 - 2006	123	20	15	35
31	Radovan Somik	Philadelphia Flyers	2002 - 2004	113	12	20	32
32	Ivan Majesky	Florida, Atlanta, Washington	2002 - 2006	202	8	23	31
33	Marian Cisar	Nashville Predators	1999 - 2002	73	13	17	30
34	Ivan Ciernik	Ottawa, Washington	1997-98, 2000 - 2004	90	12	14	26
35	Igor Liba	NY Rangers, Los Angeles	1988-89	37	7	18	25
36	Martin Cibak	Tampa Bay Lightning	2001-02, 2003 - 2006	154	5	18	23
37	Vaclav Nedorost	Colorado, Florida	2001 - 2004	99	10	10	20
38	Richard Lintner	Nashville, NY Rangers, Pittsburgh	1999 - 2001, 2002-03	112	8	12	20
39	Miroslav Ihnacak	Toronto, Detroit	1985 - 1987, 1988-89	56	8	9	17
40	Milan Bartovic	Buffalo, Chicago	2002 - 2004, 2005-06	50	3	14	17
41	Branislav Mezei	NY Islanders, Florida	2000 - 2006	138	3	14	17
42	Martin Strbak	Los Angeles, Pittsburgh	2003-04	49	5	11	16
43	Robert Döme	Pittsburgh, Calgary	1997-98, 1999-00, 2002-03	53	7	7	14
44	Dusan Pasek	Minnesota North Stars	1988-89	48	4	10	14
45	Jiri Bicek	New Jersey Devils	2000 - 2004	62	6	7	13
46	Milan Jurcina	Boston Bruins	2005-06	51	6	5	11
47	Peter Sejna	St.Louis Blues	2002 - 2006	27	4	3	7
48	Peter Bartos	Minnesota Wild	2000-01	13	4	2	6
49	Peter Smrek	St.Louis Blues, NY Rangers, Nashville	2000 - 2002	28	2	4	6
50	Jozef Balej	Montreal, NY Rangers, Vancouver	2003 - 2006	18	1	5	6
51	Andrej Nedorost	Columbus Blue Jackets	2001 - 2004	28	2	3	5
52	Kristian Kudroc	Tampa Bay, Florida	2000 - 2002, 2003-04	26	2	2	4
53	Miroslav Zalesak	San Jose Sharks	2002 - 2004	12	1	2	3
54	Lubomir Vaic	Vancouver Canucks	1997-98, 1999-00	9	1	1	2
55	Jergus Baca	Hartford Whalers	1990 - 1992	10	0	2	2
56	Tomas Malec	Carolina, Ottawa	2002 - 2006	45	0	2	2
57	Andrej Podkonicky	Florida, Washington	2000-01, 2003-04	8	1	0	1
58	Roman Tvrdon	Washington Capitals	2003-04	9	0	1	1
59	Ivan Droppa	Chicago Blackhawks	1993-94, 1995-96	19	0	1	1
60	Tomas Kopecky	Detroit Red Wings	2005-06	1	0	0	0
60	Stefan Ruzicka	Philadelphia Flyers	2005-06	1	0	0	0
60	Stanislav Gron	New Jersey Devils	2000-01	1	0	0	0
60	Jozef Cierny	Edmonton Oilers	1993-94	1	0	0	0
61	Jaroslav Obsut	St.Louis Blues, Colorado	2000 - 2002	7	0	0	0
62	Ladislav Karabin	Pittsburgh Penguins	1993-94	9	0	0	0
63	Radoslav Hecl	Buffalo Sabres	2002-03	14	0	0	0