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| 1984 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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David Volek
Selected in
10th round
No. 208 overall by New York Islanders
Born
August 16, 1966
 | Position:
Right Wing / Left Wing
Height: 6-0 Weight: 185
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Prague Slavia (Czechoslovakia)
Birthplace:
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Hometown: Prague, Czech Republic |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1983-84 |
Prague Slavia | Czech. |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
European Junior Championships: 1983 (bronze),
1984 (silver) |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 6, 1988 (N.Y. Islanders at
Calgary)
Numbers: 25 (N.Y. Islanders)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Status:
Retired for final time in 1995 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years |
Teams | GP |
G | A |
TP | PIM | | 1988-1994 |
N.Y. Islanders | 396 |
95 | 154 |
249 | 201 |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1990-1994 |
N.Y. Islanders | 15 |
5 | 5 |
10 | 2 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
NHL All-Rookie Team: 1988-89 (N.Y. Islanders)
N.Y. Islanders Playoffs Points Leader: 1990 (5, tie)
N.Y.
Islanders Playoffs Assists Leader: 1990 (4)
Scouting Career:
Named Buffalo amateur scout for Europe prior to 1996-97 season and remained
in that position through 1997-98 season. ... amed Buffalo director of
European amateur scouting prior to 1998-99 season and remained in position
through 2003-04 season.
Miscellaneous: Was represented by player agent Rich Winter when he entered
NHL in 1988. ... Had assist in his first NHL game. ... Missed part of
1988-89 season with separated right shoulder, an injury suffered during N.Y.
Islanders' Oct. 18, 1988, game vs. Vancouver. He did not return to action until N.Y.
Islanders' Oct. 29, 1988, game at Quebec. ... Played left wing for N.Y.
Islanders for most of his rookie season in 1988-89. ... Named NHL
Rookie of Month for November 1988. ... Led all NHL rookies with seven
game-winning goals in 1988-89. ... Finished third among all NHL rookies with
229 shots on goal in 1988-89. ... Finished tied for fifth among all NHL
rookies with 59 points in 1988-89. ... Led N.Y. Islanders with seven
game-winning goals in 1988-89. ... Became first N.Y. Islanders player named
to NHL All-Rookie team when he achieved feat in 1988-89. ... Played right wing for N.Y. Islanders
throughout most of 1989-90 season. ... Led N.Y. Islanders with 19 shots on
goal in 1990 playoffs. ... Openly complained early in 1991-92 season that he
felt he deserved more money than the $160,000 he was due to earn in the
fourth year of a five-year contract. He eventually demanded a trade because
he said the Islanders were stalling on giving him a promised contract
extension. The Islanders claimed they were waiting to complete a pending
sale of the team before making an offer. Finally, the situation was resolved
when Volek signed a two-year contract extension on Feb. 2, 1992.
... Missed part of 1991-92 season with sore lower
back, an injury suffered during N.Y. Islanders' Nov. 16, 1991, game vs. N.Y.
Rangers. He did not return to action until N.Y. Islanders' Nov. 27, 1991,
game vs. Boston. ... Played on line with Pierre Turgeon and Derek King for
second half of 1991-92 season. ... Missed part of 1991-92 season with strained lower back,
an injury suffered during N.Y. Islanders' Feb. 17, 1992, game vs. Winnipeg.
... Missed part of 1991-92 season with pulled muscles in rib cage, an injury
suffered in N.Y. Islanders' March 7, 1992, game at Montreal. He did not return
until N.Y. Islanders' March 12, 1992, game at Pittsburgh. Requested that
N.Y. Islanders trade him early in 1992-93 season because he wanted more
playing time. No trade ever materialized. ... Missed part of
1992-93 season with the flu, an illness suffered in December 1992. ...
Missed remainder of 1992-93 regular season and start of 1993 playoffs with
sore back, re-aggravated for the final time during N.Y. Islanders' April 11,
1993, game at New Jersey. He did not return to action until Game 3 of N.Y.
Islanders' second-round series vs. Pittsburgh on May 6, 1993. ...
Scored winning goal on a slap shot at 5:16 of overtime in Game 7 of N.Y. Islanders'
second-round series at Pittsburgh on May 14, 1993. The goal, which beat
Pittsburgh goaltender Tom Barrasso, gave the Islanders an improbable series upset of the two-time defending Stanley Cup
champions. ... Missed part of 1993-94 season with strained hip flexor,
suffered during N.Y. Islanders' Dec. 2, 1993, game at Boston. ... Missed
remainder of 1993-94 season and entire 1995 season with herniated disc, an
injury aggravated for the final time during N.Y. Islanders' Jan. 8, 1994,
game at Hartford. Attempting to come back from the injury, Volek chose to
end his season and try to rehabilitate himself with physical therapy. He was
unable to do so, and at age 28 he opted to retire from the NHL on Sept. 1,
1994, prior to corrective surgery. After the surgery, he attempted a brief
comeback in the Czech Republic at the start of the 1995-96 season
before he retired for good. | | NHL SALARY HISTORY |
Contract signed with N.Y. Islanders on Aug. 31, 1988
(Five years, $750,000. Two-way at $50,000/yr. for minor-league play) | |
1988-89: $130,000 |
1990-91: $150,000 |
Renegotiated contract signed on Feb. 2, 1992 | |
1989-90: $140,000 |
1991-92: $160,000 |
1992-93: $170,000
(renegotiated, never paid) |
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Contract signed with N.Y. Islanders on Feb. 2, 1992
(Two years, $800,000) | |
1992-93: $400,000 |
1993-94: $400,000 |
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| Total NHL Earnings: $1,380,000 |
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| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams:
Prague Sparta (Czechoslovakia)
Olympics: 1988 (sixth place)
Canada Cup: 1987 (fourth place)
World Championships: 1987 (bronze
medal), 1991 (sixth place)
World Junior Championships: 1986 (bronze medal)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Coaching Career: Named Prague Sparta (Czech
Republic) assistant coach on July 18, 2005.
Miscellaneous: Led Prague Sparta
(Czechoslovakia) with 30 points in 1987-88.
Personal: Also known
as Dave Volek during his NHL career.
IIHF Suspension: In August 1988,
the International Ice Hockey Federation placed Volek on a six-month
suspension after he tested positive for steroids during the Czechoslovakian
playoffs in April 1988. The suspension was announced during the summer, not
long after Volek defected from Czechoslovakia to Canada via West Germany
(where he had gone with permission to visit his parents) on
July 25, 1988. Volek, accompanied out of the country by his fiancee, Alice
Henysova, was helped to defect by agent Rich Winter. Following the
suspension, Winter argued against the IIHF action, claiming that the steroid
charges were false allegations by the Czech hockey authorities that were
designed to keep Volek from defecting to North America. He said Volek had
never used steroids, and that the Czechs had only tested him for drugs as
insurance against the possibility of his leaving after the season (since he
was due to enter the army and the rest of his family had already left three years earlier). Winter
said that the Czechs figured that if they could
taint Volek's image, they might hurt his chances of ever playing in the NHL.
Winter also said Volek was nothing more than a "political pawn" whose
suspension status would be used in talks between the NHL and IIHF. In the
wake of the suspension, while Volek was spending time in Edmonton with his
agent, the New York Islanders offered Volek his first NHL
contract, which he signed on Aug. 31, 1988. Fortunately for Winter and Volek, the
Islanders and NHL did not feel entirely obligated to honor the IIHF suspension by
keeping Volek out of the league. On Sept. 7, 1988, Volek joined the
Islanders for the opening of their 1988 training camp, and three weeks
later, after Volek had played in several exhibition games, NHL president
John Ziegler announced that Volek could open the season in the NHL because
the IIHF had failed to produce enough evidence to prove that Volek had ever
failed a drug test for steroids. |
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SNAPSHOT '84 | | Total Selected: |
250 | | Forwards: |
142 | | Defense: |
88 | | Goaltenders: |
20 | | Major Junior: |
110 | | Tier II/Jr. B: |
16/9 | | College Players: |
23 | | High School: |
47 | | Midget: |
4 | | U.S. Junior B: |
1 |
| Canadian: |
145 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
2 | | USA Citizens: |
62 | | U.S.-Born: |
63 |
| European: |
41 |
| Reached NHL: |
102 |
| Stanley Cup: |
20 | | Hall of Fame: |
1 |
| All-Star Game: |
18 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
7 |
| Olympians: |
31 |
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