List of Slovaks in the NHL

The following is a list of all Slovak ice hockey players who played, or are playing in the National Hockey League. It is sorted by all-time points scored.

Since the 1958–59 season, 66 Slovak forwards and defencemen have played at least one game in the NHL. Also, four goalies native to Slovakia have appeared in games.

At the top of this list, there is the unranked position of Stan Mikita. Stan Mikita was born in Slovakia, but left at the age of 8. He learned to play hockey in Canada, not Slovakia, so his first place may be disputed by some sources. All other players started their pro-careers in Europe.

Active players are in bold. (At least one game played in 2006–07 season)

All-time scoring leaders

	Player	Teams	Seasons	GP	Gls	Ast	Pts
1	Stan Mikita	Chicago Black Hawks	1958 – 1980	1394	541	926	1467
2	Peter Stastny	Quebec, New Jersey, St.Louis	1980 – 1995	977	450	789	1239
3	Peter Bondra	Washington, Ottawa, Atlanta, Chicago	1990 – 2007	1081	503	389	892
4	Zigmund Palffy	NY Islanders, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh	1993 – 2006	684	329	384	713
5	Jozef Stumpel	Boston, Los Angeles, Florida	1991 – 2007	957	196	481	677
6	Pavol Demitra	Ottawa, St.Louis, Los Angeles, Minnesota Wild, Vancouver Canucks	1993 – 2007	690	269	384	653
7	Miroslav Satan	Edmonton, Buffalo, NY Islanders, Pittsburgh	1995 – 2008	867	321	323	644
8	Anton Stastny	Quebec Nordiques	1980 – 1989	650	252	384	636
9	Marian Hossa	Ottawa, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Detroit Red Wings	1997 – 2008	629	270	312	582
10	Richard Zednik	Washington, Islanders, Montreal, Florida	1995 – 2008	675	183	163	346
11	Robert Svehla	Florida, Toronto	1994 – 2003	655	68	267	335
12	Marian Gaborik	Minnesota Wild	2000 – 2007	408	164	167	331
13	Michal Handzus	St.Louis, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Los Angeles	1998 – 2007	517	115	185	300
14	Marian Stastny	Quebec, Toronto	1981 – 1986	322	121	173	294
15	Ladislav Nagy	St.Louis, Phoenix, Dallas Stars, Los Angeles	1999 – 2007	397	106	179	285
16	Peter Ihnacak	Toronto Maple Leafs	1982 – 1990	417	102	165	267
17	Lubomir Visnovsky	Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers	2000 – 2008	417	62	176	238
18	Zdeno Ciger	N.Jersey, Edmonton, NYR, Tampa Bay	1990 – 1996, 2001–02	352	94	134	228
19	Zdeno Chara	NY Islanders, Ottawa, Boston	1997 – 2007	610	68	150	218
20	Vladimir Orszagh	NY Islanders, Nashville, St.Louis	1997 – 2000, 2001 – 2006	289	54	65	119
21	Lubos Bartecko	St.Louis, Atlanta	1998 – 2003	257	46	65	111
22	Branko Radivojevic	Phoenix, Philadelphia, Minnesota	2001 – 2007	320	45	58	103
23	Juraj Kolnik	NY Islanders, Florida	2000 – 2007	240	46	49	95
24	Ronald Petrovicky	Calgary, NY Rangers, Atlanta	2000 – 2007	342	41	51	92
25	Marek Svatos	Colorado Avalanche	2003 – 2007	131	49	33	82
26	Andrej Meszaros	Ottawa Senators	2005–07	164	17	57	74
27	Lubomir Sekeras	Minnesota Wild, Dallas	2000 – 2004	213	18	53	71
28	Radoslav Suchy	Phoenix, Columbus	1999 – 2006	451	13	58	71
29	Robert Petrovicky	Hartford, Dallas, St.Louis, Tampa B., NYI	1992 – 1997, 1998 – 2001	208	27	38	65
30	Marcel Hossa	Montreal, NY Rangers Phoenix Coyotes	2001 – 2008	237	31	30	61
31	Tomas Surovy	Pittsburgh Penguins	2002 – 2006	126	27	32	59
32	Radovan Somik	Philadelphia Flyers	2002 – 2004	113	12	20	32
33	Milan Jurcina	Boston Bruins, Washington	2005–08	196	11	21	32
34	Ivan Majesky	Florida, Atlanta, Washington	2002 – 2006	202	8	23	31
35	Marian Cisar	Nashville Predators	1999 – 2002	73	13	17	30
36	Ivan Ciernik	Ottawa, Washington	1997–98, 2000 – 2004	90	12	14	26
37	Igor Liba	NY Rangers, Los Angeles	1988–89	37	7	18	25
38	Branislav Mezei	NY Islanders, Florida	2000 – 2008	240	5	19	24
39	Martin Cibak	Tampa Bay Lightning	2001–02, 2003 – 2006	154	5	18	23
40	Richard Lintner	Nashville, NY Rangers, Pittsburgh	1999 – 2001, 2002–03	112	8	12	20
41	Miroslav Ihnacak	Toronto, Detroit	1985 – 1987, 1988–89	56	8	9	17
42	Milan Bartovic	Buffalo, Chicago	2002 – 2004, 2005–06	50	3	14	17
43	Stefan Ruzicka	Philadelphia Flyers	2005–07	55	4	13	17
44	Martin Strbak	Los Angeles, Pittsburgh	2003–04	49	5	11	16
45	Robert Dome	Pittsburgh, Calgary	1997–98, 1999–00, 2002–03	53	7	7	14
46	Dusan Pasek	Minnesota North Stars	1988–89	48	4	10	14
47	Jiri Bicek	New Jersey Devils	2000 – 2004	62	6	7	13
48	Tomas Kopecky	Detroit Red Wings	2005–08	104	6	7	13
49	Peter Sejna	St.Louis Blues	2002 – 2007	49	7	4	11
50	Andrej Sekera	Buffalo Sabres	2007–08	39	2	6	8
51	Peter Bartos	Minnesota Wild	2000–01	13	4	2	6
52	Peter Smrek	St.Louis Blues, NY Rangers, Nashville	2000 – 2002	28	2	4	6
53	Jozef Balej	Montreal, NY Rangers, Vancouver	2003 – 2006	18	1	5	6
54	Andrej Nedorost	Columbus Blue Jackets	2001 – 2004	28	2	3	5
55	Kristian Kudroc	Tampa Bay, Florida	2000 – 2002, 2003–04	26	2	2	4
56	Miroslav Zalesak	San Jose Sharks	2002 – 2004	12	1	2	3
57	Lubomir Vaic	Vancouver Canucks	1997–98, 1999–00	9	1	1	2
58	Jergus Baca	Hartford Whalers	1990 – 1992	10	0	2	2
59	Tomas Malec	Carolina, Ottawa	2002 – 2007	46	0	2	2
60	Andrej Podkonicky	Florida, Washington	2000–01, 2003–04	8	1	0	1
61	Roman Tvrdon	Washington Capitals	2003–04	9	0	1	1
62	Ivan Droppa	Chicago Blackhawks	1993–94, 1995–96	19	0	1	1
63	Ivan Baranka	New York Rangers	2007–08	1	0	1	1
64	Stanislav Gron	New Jersey Devils	2000–01	1	0	0	0
65	Jozef Cierny	Edmonton Oilers	1993–94	1	0	0	0
66	Jaroslav Obsut	St.Louis Blues, Colorado	2000 – 2002	7	0	0	0
68	Ladislav Karabin	Pittsburgh Penguins	1993–94	9	0	0	0
69	Radoslav Hecl	Buffalo Sabres	2002–03	14	0	0	0
70	Boris Valabik	Atlanta Thrashers	2007–2009	14	0	0	0
71	Vladimir Mihalik	Tampa Bay Lightning	2008–2009	2	0	0	0

Stats at the end of regular season 2006/07

Goalies

• Peter Budaj: 151 Games - 8 368 minutes - 72W-48L-17OTL - 6 Shutouts
• Rastislav Stana: 6 Games - 211 minutes - 1 win - 0 Shutouts
• Jan Lasak: 6 Games - 267 minutes - 0 wins - 0 Shutouts
• Jaroslav Halak: 30 games - 1 642 minutes - 15W-10L-2OTL - 2 shutouts

See also

• List of NHL players
• List of NHL statistical leaders by country
• Slovakia national ice hockey team