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David Vyborny
The Olympic Games or Olympics is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
David Vyborny was born on January 22, 1975 in Jihlava; Czechoslovakia and is a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vyborny first rose to fame playing with HC Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga in 1992. He scored 20 goals and 44 points in 52 games, all as a teenager. The Edmonton Oilers picked Vyborny up in the second round of the 1993 NHL, National Hockey League Entry Draft and he proved that he was not a fluke by scoring 46 points for Sparta in the next season.
Vyborny came over to North America for the 1994-95 season and played for the Cape Breton Oilers of the AHL, American Hockey League. He again performed quite well, scoring 61 points in 76 games, third most on his team and fifth most among AHL rookies. However, he headed back to Europe after only one season in the AHL. Upon his return to Sparta, he scored more than ever. He scored 42 points in 40 games and helped Sparta into the playoffs, where he again scored more than a point per game.
Vyborny spent one more season in Prague and continued to advance with 49 points in 47 games; he added 14 more in the playoffs. He scored 70 points in 52 games and won the Extra League's scoring title by 18 points. In the 2002-2003 NHL season, he scored 46 points and led his team with a 12 plus minus, which set a record for the Blue Jackets. Vyborny improved still more for the 2003-2004 NHL season, and he scored 22 goals and 31 assists, for a total of 53 points.
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