Róbert Petrovický (; born 26 October 1973) is a Slovak former professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

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. He played in the

NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

for the

Hartford Whalers The Hartford Whalers were a professional ice hockey team based for most of its 25-year existence in Hartford, Connecticut. The club played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 until 1979, and in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1 ...

Dallas Stars The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas. The Stars compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (NHL), Central Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. The Stars ...

St. Louis Blues The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis. The Blues compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (NHL), Central Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. Th ...

Tampa Bay Lightning The Tampa Bay Lightning (colloquially known as the Bolts) are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. The Lightning compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the ...

and the

New York Islanders The New York Islanders (colloquially known as the Isles) are a professional ice hockey team based in Elmont, New York. The Islanders compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (N ...

. In 2009/2010 season he played for

Dinamo Riga Dinamo Riga () is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It most recently was a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LBTU. The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of a D ...

in the

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; ) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (20), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 23 clubs. It was considered in ...

. He captained team

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...

. Petrovicky was the last Hartford Whaler and Springfield Indian to be active in professional hockey.

Personal life

Robert's son, Rayen, is an ice hockey player for

TUTO Hockey TUTO Hockey (Turun Toverit) is a Finland, Finnish ice hockey team based at the Kupittaan jäähalli (capacity 2,875, inauguration in November 2006). Established in 1929 in sports, 1929, TUTO plays in Turku, Finland, and is one of two clubs in th ...

of the

Mestis Mestis (from , meaning 'Championship series', stylized as MEST1S) is the second-highest men's ice hockey league in Finland. The league was established by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 2000 to replace the I-divisioona ('First Division ...

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

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* 1973 births Chicago Wolves (IHL) players Czechoslovak ice hockey centres Dallas Stars players Detroit Vipers players Dinamo Riga players Grand Rapids Griffins (IHL) players Hartford Whalers draft picks Hartford Whalers players HK Dukla Trenčín players HC Ambrì-Piotta players HC Kometa Brno players HC Slavia Praha players HC Vítkovice players Ice hockey players at the 1994 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics Kalamazoo Wings (1974–2000) players Leksands IF players Living people Modo Hockey players NHL first-round draft picks New York Islanders players Olympic ice hockey players for Slovakia Ice hockey people from Košice SCL Tigers players St. Louis Blues players Slovak ice hockey centres Slovakia men's national ice hockey team coaches Springfield Falcons players Springfield Indians players Tampa Bay Lightning players Worcester IceCats players ZSC Lions players Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Latvia Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Finland 21st-century Slovak sportsmen Long stubs with short prose {{Slovakia-icehockey-bio-stub