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Zednik, Richard
NHL, the National Hockey League is a premier professional North American Sports League played in indoor stadiums. It’s divided into two conferences, each comprising of three divisions of ice hockey teams. The league was established in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec and it is composed of 30 teams out of which 24 teams based in U.S. and 6 in Canada. They have a regular season and playoffs leading to the Stanley Cup, which is the NHL Championship final.
Zednik, Richard is well known hockey player. He was born on 6th January 1976 in Bystrica, Slovakia. His height is six feet with weight 200 pounds. He is positioned as right wing player and plays for Washington Capitals team. Richard Zednik showed promise as a speedy centre with the potential to produce offensively in the NHL while representing Slovakia in the 1993 and 1994 European Junior Hockey Championships. He was the Washington Capitals 10th choice, 249th overall in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft and moved to North America to play with the WHL's Portland Winter Hawks in 1994-95, scoring 35 goals in his rookie year. He increased his offensive numbers in his sophomore year, earning Second Team All-Star honours.
Zednik represented Slovakia at the 1996 World Junior Championships and in August 1996 he played in the World Cup of Hockey tournament. Sandwiched in between these events was his NHL debut with the Capitals, on April 13, 1996, his only NHL game that season. The following season he scored his first NHL goal in a game against the Chicago Blackhawks, but spent most of the season in the AHL, American Hockey League with the Portland Pirates.
Zednik, Richard speed, shot and goal-scorers instinct led to his being compared with teammate Peter Bondra, but due to injury troubles it wasn't until the 1997-98 season that Zednik stuck with the Capitals on a full-time basis. On December 5, 1997, he scored the first-ever goal at the new Center and in the playoffs he scored seven times as the Capitals went all the way to the Stanley Cup finals. Following a solid season in Montreal, Zednik was named to Slovakia's World Cup team. Aside from his World Junior and World Cup experiences, Zednik has also represented his homeland at the World Championship in 2001, 2003 and 2005.
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