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==Playing career== ==Playing career==

Revision as of 23:51, 30 July 2006

Ice hockey player
Petr Sýkora
File:Petr Sykora.jpg
Born November 19, 1976
Plzen, CS
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb)
Position Right Wing
Shoots Left
NHL team
Former teams		 Edmonton
New York Rangers
Anaheim Ducks
New Jersey Devils
NHL draft 18th overall, 1995
New Jersey Devils
Playing career 1992–present
For other people named Petr Sykora, see Petr Sykora (disambiguation).

Petr Sýkora (born November 19, 1976 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia) is an ice hockey player, recently signed with the Edmonton of the National Hockey League.

Playing career

Sykora was a first-round pick of the New Jersey Devils, 18th overall, in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. Among that draft class, only Jarome Iginla has scored more points.

Sykora began his NHL career in 1995 with the New Jersey Devils. He won a Stanley Cup with the Devils (2000), and was a game away from winning a second Cup in 2001. That year, Sykora has career highs in goals (35), assists (46), and points (81). Sykora, along with linemate Patrik Elias, developed into solid NHL regulars.

Traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 2002 for Jeff Friesen and Oleg Tverdovsky, Sýkora was instrumental in carrying the Mighty Ducks to the Stanley Cup Finals the following year, when they lost to the Devils and his former teammates. He scored the game-winning overtime goal in the fourth-longest playoff game in NHL history on April 24, 2003.

While the NHL lockout was in effect, Sykora played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Russian Super League, scoring 31 points in 45 games.

During the 2005-06 NHL season, he and the management of the Mighty Ducks no longer saw eye-to-eye and Sykora called Rangers general manager Glen Sather, asking to join the Rangers via trade. The trade was eventually agreed to and executed on January 9, 2006 with the Rangers getting Sykora in exchange for young defenceman Maxim Kondratiev and the return of a 4th round draft pick the Rangers had previously traded to Anaheim.

It was announced on July 7, 2006 that Petr would not return to the Rangers for the 2006-07 season.

Petr Sykora signed with the Oilers but was swiftly traded to New Mexico for a bag of chips

Career highlights

  • Youngest player ever to (1998-99 through 2003-04)

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