Jiří Šlégr

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Jiří Šlégr


Born	(1971-05-30) 30 May 1971 Jihlava, TCH
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	210 lb (95 kg; 15 st 0 lb)
Position	Defence
Shot	Left
Played for	Vancouver Canucks Edmonton Oilers Pittsburgh Penguins Atlanta Thrashers Detroit Red Wings Boston Bruins
National team	Czech Republic
NHL Draft	23rd overall, 1990 Vancouver Canucks
Playing career	1988–2012

Jiří Šlégr (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈʃlɛːɡr̩] ( listen); born 30 May 1971) is a retired Czech professional ice hockey defenceman, playing his last season for HC Litvínov of the Czech Extraliga in 2009-2010. In 2010, Šlégr, a candidate of the Czech Social Democratic Party, was elected into the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

He is the estranged son of former Vancouver Canucks defenceman Jiří Bubla. He legally changed his surname from Bubla to his stepfather's surname of Slegr as a child.

Šlégr was drafted 23rd overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft.

Professional Hockey career

Šlégr played parts of three seasons with the Canucks, before being traded to the Edmonton Oilers for Roman Oksiuta, where he played for parts of two seasons. He spent the 1996–97 season playing in Södertälje SK in Sweden. He then returned to the NHL, where he had been traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a 3rd round draft pick, and played three and a half seasons there. In January 2001, he was traded to the Atlanta Thrashers for a 3rd round draft pick. Atlanta traded Šlégr to the Detroit Red Wings for Yuri Butsayev and a 3rd round draft pick in March 2002. He won a Stanley Cup with the Red Wings that season. He signed as a free agent with Vancouver in September 2003, but was traded to the Boston Bruins in January 2004 for a conditional pick after falling out of favor with Vancouver Canucks coach Marc Crawford. Šlégr spent the 2004–05 NHL lockout season with HC Litvínov in the Czech Republic before returning to the Boston Bruins for the 2005–06 season. He then played with HC Litvínov, and the starting in March 2007 for the playoffs with the Swiss team EHC Biel.

International Hockey career

Olympic medal record
Men's ice hockey
Bronze	1992 Albertville	Ice hockey
Gold	1998 Nagano	Ice hockey

Šlégr won a gold medal in the 2005 World Championships and 1998 Olympics for the Czech Republic, and a bronze medal in the 1992 Olympics for Czechoslovakia. Along with the Stanley Cup, this means that Šlégr won all three major trophies in ice-hockey, and thus he is a member of the prestigious Triple Gold Club.

Political career

In the 2010 elections, Šlégr was elected into the Chamber of Deputies as a candidate of the Czech Social Democratic Party in the Ústecký kraj, a region in northern Bohemia. Although the Social Democrats won the elections, they found themselves isolated and a right-wing government led by Petr Nečas was formed instead, forcing the Social Democratic Chairman, Jiří Paroubek, to resign. Šlégr, loyal to Paroubek, followed the former chairman in 2011 when he left the Social Democrats and founded a new party, the National Socialists – 21st Century Left. Since he had refused to resign, Šlégr remained in the Parliament as an unaffiliated MP.

Šlégr announced on June 14, 2013 that he was "going back to the clean environment among athletes" and stepped down from his position.^[1]

Career statistics

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1992–93	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	41	4	22	26	109	5	0	3	3	4
1993–94	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	78	5	33	38	86	—	—	—	—	—
1994–95	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	19	1	5	6	32	—	—	—	—	—
1994–95	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	12	1	5	6	14	—	—	—	—	—
1995–96	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	57	4	13	17	74	—	—	—	—
1996-97	Södertälje SK	Elitserien	30	4	14	18	62	—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	73	5	12	17	109	6	0	4	4	2
1998–99	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	63	3	20	23	86	13	1	3	4	12
1999–00	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	74	11	20	31	82	10	2	3	5	19
2000–01	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	42	5	10	15	60	—	—	—	—	—
2000–01	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL	33	3	16	19	36	—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL	38	3	5	8	51	—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Detroit Red Wings	NHL	8	0	1	1	8	1	0	0	0	2
2003–04	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	16	2	5	7	8	—	—	—	—	—
2003–04	Boston Bruins	NHL	36	4	15	19	27	7	1	1	2	0
2005–06	Boston Bruins	NHL	32	5	11	16	56	—	—	—	—	—
NHL totals			622	56	193	249	838	42	4	14	18	39

References

↑ Petr Bilek (June 12, 2013). "Šlégr zase na ledě. Zatím je to zájmová činnost, zní z Litvínova" (in Czech). hokej.cz. Retrieved June 16, 2013.

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v t e Triple Gold Club

Components	Stanley Cup (champions) Ice Hockey World Championships (medalists) Ice hockey at the Olympic Games (medalists)

Players	Patrice Bergeron Rob Blake Viacheslav Fetisov Peter Forsberg Alexei Gusarov Jaromír Jágr Tomas Jonsson Valeri Kamensky Niklas Kronwall Igor Larionov Nicklas Lidström Håkan Loob Vladimir Malakhov Fredrik Modin Alexander Mogilny Mats Näslund Scott Niedermayer Chris Pronger Joe Sakic Mikael Samuelsson Brendan Shanahan Jiří Šlégr Eric Staal Jonathan Toews Henrik Zetterberg

Coaches	Mike Babcock

Persondata
Name	Slegr, Jiri
Alternative names
Short description	Ice hockey player
Date of birth	30 May 1971
Place of birth	Jihlava, TCH
Date of death
Place of death

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