The Career of Petr Nedved

[@jeffspilger6205]

As a Pens fan, I’ll always remember that 4OT goal in the 1996 playoffs.

[@avery4743]

Whenever I needed a goal in NHL 98, I called upon Petr Nedved

[@1bert719]

Same for me in NHL 2014, always a go too guy.

[@whosafraidoferiknrding4470]

My brother and I in Nova Scotia watched every minute of the 1996 Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals four overtime marathon in Game 4, after Mario Lemieux was ejected from the game from an altercation with Mark Tinordi. Ken Wregget stopped a penally shot in overtime that game, if I recall correctly, and, of course, he of the missing 'e', Petr Nedved, scored the winner. One of my top-10 favourite games of all time.

[@jessiegandhi4340]

live long and prosper is a great way to start a video, dont let anyone tell you otherwise.. of course great content as always

[@ryanross3643]

Trekkie 🤢🤮

[@ryanross3643]

May the force be with you sounds better lol

[@jessiegandhi4340]

@@ryanross3643 maybe 🤔

[@ryanross3643]

@Atheos B. Sapien I’m a muggle, I don’t believe in magic, lol. Just Jedi hocus pocus.

[@ryanross3643]

@Atheos B. Sapien two many big wurd for simple minded children like me.

[@t.s.3628]

I love that Shannon keeps changing his intro just to mess with us hahaha

[@damets]

I had season tickets during the Czechmates years. Hlavac-Nedved-Dvorak was a bright spot during some dark years.

[@samuelfrick3475]

Every Pens fan famously remembers his 4OT playoff goal against the Capitals in 1996. Steve Levy’s call aka Mr. Overtime still gives me goosebumps. Heck even the 🐐, Mike Lange’s, call made Nedved’s goal even more memorable.

[@edalder2000]

As a Capitals fan, I hated that with every fiber of my being. I watch the WHOLE game....just pain.

[@himhim3344]

Mike lange is absolutely awful

[@66scores31]

I do

[@swy334]

@@himhim3344 best announcer ever imo

[@himhim3344]

@@swy334 he's cringey af

[@johnholeman8127]

I was a season ticket holder that year for thunder birds. That team was loaded with talent. He was very good.

[@lussier1958]

Hello Shannon, some things to add about Nedved. Prior to game 6 in LA which the Canucks were facing elimination, Nedved went to the Kings practice earlier that day and asked and received Gretzky's autograph as reported by Dan Russell's Sportstalk radio show. Nedved then did his getting Gretzky's stick on the ice after the Canucks were eliminated. When interviewed after the game and asked if he wanted to come back to Vancouver, Nedved answered, "Hum haw, I don't know." Negotiations with the Canucks proved to be difficult with George McPhee stated Nedved's agent, Tony Kondel was trying get bonuses for scoring the first goal of the game or in the third period, etc. Nedved's public response was the Canucks were insulting his agent and he would never play for the Canucks again. Later it was reported by some of the newspaper reporters who travelled on Canucks flights during road games that during the 91-92 season Nedved had complained about his ice time and had asked for a trade. So it wasn't always about the money with Nedved in Vancouver and he wasn't being particularly honest with Canucks fans. When he held out in Pittsburgh he actually came back to the Rangers at less money than what the Penguins had offered him so he really did hurt himself financially. Then he fired Tony Kondel as his agent. Petr Nedved will always be Petr Pan, the boy hockey player who never grew up. p.s. Back in the spring of 1992 I almost hit a jaywalker crossing the middle of Como Lake Avenue in Coquitlam. This individual with his head in the clouds stepped off the curb in the middle of the street as far away from an intersection or crosswalk as one could be and didn't look in either direction. I thought, "Who is this idiot?" and then I did a double take. Yes, it was Petr Nedved. He was boarding with a Coquitlam family at the time.

[@subraxas]

:-D

Check out the comment I made above.

[@smithryansmith]

basically the trivia question to who was the Czech taken ahead of Jagr in the draft.

[@bertdozer44]

And Nedved even told them to take Jagr instead.

[@nhlvan]

Sucks because everyone knew how good Jagr was, but Jagr apparently told every team besides the Pens to not draft him because he won't play for them. Apparently he wanted to play with Lemieux.

[@OcarinaofKillingTime]

@@nhlvan the way the story is usually told, he didn't say that he wouldn't come over ever, he just told other teams he would stay in Czechoslovakia for a while. That's not what he told the Penguins.

[@radekdickinson5772]

Greetings from the Czech Republic. Thank you for your great content :)

[@ssmith87]

Peter Nedved, I automatically remember the 4 OT goal in game 4 in Washington in 1996. I was hardcore struggling to stay awake on a school night, I think it was like 2:40am when it ended. Oh yeah Ken Wregget was an absolute animal in those playoffs too, in that same game 4 he had to stop Joe Juneau on a penalty shot. People were talking about that game for a few days at school.

[@jahmanoog461]

Good skills, good skater, European style playmaker. I enjoyed his play for the PENS.

[@a01252]

As a kid he was my favorite forward. I viewed him as very skilled.

[@busupshot83]

Career videos are my favorite!!!!

[@whatisawitch2550]

You could have touched on his immigration story as well. Nedved was in Canada with a Czechoslovak junior team at the age of 17. With 20 bucks in his pocket, he decided he was not going to return to his home country (still an oppressive communist regime at the time), didn't turn up at the airport with the team and stayed in Canada.

[@rebekah7635]

I didn't know he defected!

[@BrotherAlpha]

Petr Nedved was a very talented player, but he was also a pain in the ass when it came to contract negotiations and that really, really hurt his career.

[@JeffKing310]

Yo, I'm loving the video openers.

[@wilseph1]

Playing for Canada at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer was cool!

[@Kabequah]

On the Gretzky stick thing, this is just a hypothesis, but in football (soccer) players often trade jerseys after final games. It’s a sign of respect. I wasn’t alive when Nedved asked Gretzky for his stick, but it may have come from that tradition in European football.

[@vojtechkloz7387]

He is legend in Liberec(CZE), he even played at Olympic in 2014 aged 42.

[@trismaster]

Las Vegas Thunder legend! Saw him play for them during my first ever hockey game.

[@ZeusMcCormick]

These career videos and the history videos are my favorites on your channel. Entertaining and informative.

[@Rometiklan]

Saw Nedved get drafted at BC Place stadium in 1990...great draft with Owen Nolan, and Jagr. Nedved was extremely talented, but really only looked out for #1. His defection was really just the first step. At the time, he had one of the best wrist shots in the game. I would say I wish his time in Vancouver had worked out, but without Nedved leaving, they probably don't make the Finals in 1994.

[@jakubsichta2177]

After return to Czech republic he was even captain of national team for a while, now he is GM. Very complicated person too …

[@nicka83]

I'm from Vancouver and the defining moment of Nedved for me is going to a Rangers game at Madison Square Garden in 2001 on a trip to New York and the Ranger fans booing Nedved every time he touched the puck.

[@subraxas]

Why did they do that? He was like one of only two or three bright lights on that sXXXty would-be team they had there at the time, overfilled with overpaid former superstars who were past their zenith and constantly underperforming.

[@nicka83]

​@@subraxas It was 20 years ago but I'm pretty sure I asked someone next to me and they said "because he's a bum. He's useless they should trade him." It was around this time I remember Habs fans booing Patrice Brisbois I never really understood that either. Shannon should do a video of notable players that got booed by their own fans I'm sure there's more.

[@MarkVrem]

@@nicka83 Bruins fans are in the majority that Tukka Rask sucks, and everyone is always like WTF? It's just a thing sometimes.

[@subraxas]

@@nicka83 Larry Murphy back in Toronto. So they eventually traded him to the Red Wings and he won there 2 Cups and was an integral part of those winning teams. That's the way to go, Maple Leafs!! :-D

[@allsystemsgo8678]

@@nicka83 I think with Brisbois it was because he was such a big guy and never threw a hit. The game was so much more physical and he always played a very lackadaisical style

[@razdower]

NHL2k6...Nedved and Bondra were the core to the start of my franchise

[@BHolmes721]

Hey Shannon, would love to see a career video of Brad Richards. A fellow Islander and a player a lot of us from PEI are proud of. He had a pretty interesting career

[@christhornycroft3686]

Quinn would lowball Cliff Ronning too. He had a habit of doing that and then signing guys like Messier to huge contracts. Good coach but a mixed bag as a GM.

[@sibbyeskie]

Randomly woke up a couple days ago wondering about Petr Nedved. Hadn’t thought of the guy in years. No idea why. Thought about the moment he asked Gretzky for his stick, and how he nearly put up 100 in Pittsburgh. All in all, it was a decent career, though at times frustrating.

[@subraxas]

That is being called.... D E S T I N Y ! ! ! :-)

[@DUDE72341]

A regular at the Roxy nightclub in Vancouver. Lived in North burnaby for awhile..was always very friendly to everyone..I think how he got out of Czech is a better story, defecting in Calgary at 17 while in an international hockey tournament.. no family, he .. turned himself in at a Calgary police station..not many of us at 17 would throw caution to the wind, take a chance like that, and chase our dreams, him asking for more money..absolutely!

[@freedom_fighter4317]

In the spring of 1992 the Canucks were facing elimination at home. I walk into a bar in Burnaby the night before the game and Nedved and Robert Kron are pounding back beers and watching strippers. What dedication and professionalism. Good to see these players focused on giving every once of their soul to win and stay alive in the playoffs.

[@sibbyeskie]

Weren’t many bars like that other than in New West. Right off skytrain so at least they didn’t drink and drive. Funny story though.

[@lussier1958]

@@sibbyeskie The North Burnaby Inn, aka the NBI or in the days Don Cherry lived there while playing for the WHL Canucks the Admiral, at the time of Nedved had the lovely ladies shedding their laundry. PN spent a lot of time in and around Hastings in Burnaby, bought a house there after he left Vancouver and had his parents and brother move in to it. He would spend his off season in Burnaby and frequented Kensington Pitch and Putt and the Mountain Shadow pub with his brother and numerous attractive puck bunnies. Freedom fighter, Nedved showed the same dedication and professionalism before the LA games 6 elimination chasing after Gretzky for his autograph in 1993.

[@subraxas]

You should have taken a picture of them in there with your smartphone. :-D

[@freedom_fighter4317]

@@subraxas lol.... up until 1995 I was still using a rotary dial home phone. Hadn't even graduated to push button dialing yet : (

[@subraxas]

@@freedom_fighter4317 WOW!! That sounds really futuristic. :-D P.S. - I still buy music on CDs, mostly. :-)

[@andrewjmschroeder]

Love these career and history videos, Shannon! Would love to see ones for Bernie Federko and Tomas Vokoun! Both underrated players, in my opinion.

[@subraxas]

Interesting choices. Federko is like that 100-points-per-season superstar Hall-of-Famer that no-one knows about. :-) Another super-overlooked guy like this is Steve Larmer, though he did not end up in the HHOF.

[@scottt.455]

His last season in Vancouver was one for the ages - 38 goals scored with only 2 on the PP. It’s true that the pieces Vancouver received for him helped build a near Cup winner. But wonder too what he could have done here long term playing alongside the high end talent.

[@williamm1981]

Imagine Nedved and Bure

[@sierramodre1]

Love the career/retrospective videos Shannon; very enjoyable… thanks so much!👍🏻👏🏻

[@judgejimbobrowntown7600]

One of my favorite pens us as kids used to tuck in half our shirt and let half out all the time cuz he wore his jersey like that

[@Zamppa86]

Those high scoring seasons he had while in Vancouver and Pittsburgh probably were mainly results of playing with Bure, Lemieux, Jagr and so on. Nice career though.

[@vanadam8096]

I always liked Nedved as a player but liked him even more as a person. Great wrist shot too

[@rebekah7635]

I think you should try "ahoy-ahoy" like Mr Burns

[@LeftyGretzky]

8:20 the Czech Posse Nedved, Hlavec, and Dvorak

[@thestone9134]

THG should open the video like Krusty the Clown with HEY HEY!

[@subraxas]

:-D :-D :-D

[@patch8376]

Or Dr. Nick? "Hi, everybody!"

[@thestone9134]

@@patch8376 with the accent too :D

[@danieldosso2455]

I only knew Nedved from NHL06 when he was in Phoenix at the end of his career.

[@holoholopainen1627]

He was The Talk of TOWN - Where ever He WENT !

[@curtyg49]

Jim Sandlak gave up his number 19 for Nedved he had the weirdest wrist shot, his hands were about a foot apart but he got a lot of speed off it! If I remember Mogilny played for team Canada alsoat yr.

Mogilny never played for Canada, nor did he ever obtain Canadian citizenship.

[@tomchamberlain4329]

Always loved watching him once hockey was on TV in the UK. Prior to that I only knew him as a Blue in NHL 95

[@BoyNamedSue4]

Someone has to say it Welcome back

[@ll7868]

Nedved was a frustrating guy to watch, he coasted around the blue line a lot looking for breakaways but he didn't have the speed or agility of a Pavel Bure to really make that work. His defensive play was spotty, inconsistent, -21 one season to a +20 2 seasons later with Vancouver, has a +37 season in Pittsburgh followed by a -2 season. I actually liked him in Pittsburgh, looked like he found his game but then...nope, back to coasting with the Rangers. Yeah he was frustrating.

[@allsystemsgo8678]

He's one of the guys who really hurt the reputation of European players with not always showing up, not playing physical, holdouts. He came off as a mercenary and not a guy who cared about winning.

[@subraxas]

Damn!! For a second I thought that you were typing about Alexei Yashin. :-D

[@allsystemsgo8678]

@@subraxas lol. Or Alex Mogilny, Alexei Kovalev Vlad Malakov...

[@subraxas]

@@allsystemsgo8678 Well, Idk about these two guys. I still remember Mogilny's playing pretty well in the play-offs for both the Devils and Maple Leafs during multiple seasons, and Malakhov was fantastic and indispensable at least for the Islanders during their 1993 Cinderella run. Later in his career, he ended up with both of his knees basically destroyed, so I guess that he wasn't just "hiding" on the ice all the time.

[@allsystemsgo8678]

@@subraxas Malakov had a ridiculous amount of talent and squandered it. The fact that Mogilny isn't in the hall of fame also shows you that he took way too many nights off. Not sure sure why Malakov having bad knees means he played physical or didn't take nights off

[@marknilsson6808]

Career video suggestions: Tony Amonte Jason Allison Craig Simpson Paul MacLean Ray Ferraro Kevin Stevens Steve Thomas David Perron Marc Savard Andrew Cassels

[@subraxas]

@@mannyoliveira776 Cristiano Ronaldo :-)

[@shanielcabral]

Love the career videos

[@swy334]

So good for Pittsburgh

[@benellison5668]

I got your opening, "pleasant good evening to the shutins, the blind, those who don't get out to regular nhl hockey games...."

[@nernins]

Can you do a series on great lines in Hockey? like the Czeck line, the Production line, the Grind line, the French Connection, the West Coast Express, the Legion of Doom etc

[@subraxas]

This is a SUPERB IDEA FOR A VIDEO SERIES ! ! ! Please, Shannon, take note of this!!

[@Gagne87Fixxer]

When thinking about polarizing players that went to Vancouver, Alexander Mogilny came to mind as well.

[@JayLewisNYR1994]

since you made the video for the career of Petr Nedved, please consider finishing up the Czech Line with Radek Dvorak and Jan Hlavac.

[@VanillaLoaf]

Defining memory of Nedved for me is him getting wrecked by Lindros on a regular basis as a Ranger.

[@russellmingus2590]

When I was 10 I had an awards picture with him when he was with the Tbirds, and I was just disappointed that it wasn't Glen Goodall.

[@subraxas]

Whoooo?!

[@russellmingus2590]

@@subraxas Glen Goodall was a superstar. Granted exceptional status, he still holds the WHL career goals record, 2nd in points. The only number the Seattle Thunderbirds have ever retired, #10. And I'm pretty sure was having tea time with my best friend's mom. He was considered too small for the NHL at the time at 5'8". At the time I didn't give AF about Petr Nedved. I only realize it was him in the picture years later.

[@bradcrawford5314]

#1 Center of my all-time Czech Republic

[@jon-eriksuermann9844]

I would be really interested in a video on my all time favorite player Al MacInnis

[@subraxas]

He already did him. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIHbiJ2gdqhrmsU

[@c71score]

Nedved not only held-out that season+, but his demands were "I want Jagr money". Although he scored the 4OT winner, and I am forever grateful for that, he will always be known to me as Petr Greedved. Aside from the scumbag on and/or off the ice types(the Matt Cookes and Slava Voynovs of the world), he will probably always be my least favorite player of all time. Oh, and I just wish someone would love me the same way Mike Keenan loved Brian Noonan.

[@subraxas]

Keenan-Noonan . . . . that rhymes and chimes. :-)

[@InsignificantNick]

"Petr Nedved" should be the new "Welcome back"

[@J_Aaron_L]

Sorry Shannon but you misspelled John LeClair 😉

[@kevinbudzinski9576]

It was actually the 89-90 season when he played for the Seattle Thunderbirds

[@defaultuser1447]

Blues writer Jeff Gordon once referred to Nedved as "the debonair ice-dancer".

[@mattblom3990]

Take a drink every time Nedved holds out or threatens to.

[@TriggermanEst91]

Ok, how long till he runs out of odd intros? You started this Shannon

[@faceballheadshot]

I love this leave him 🤣😂🤣😂

[@AzureReborn]

Career of Marian Hossa? (Sorry if you've already done one)

[@PJPremiere]

Looking at that whiteboard those Rangers teams still stand out to me. They were trying to duplicate what the Red Wings had been doing and it just wasn't working for them. So much skill, so much money, and a serious lack of chemistry equaled no playoffs for so many years.

[@MayorTerwilliger]

That Robitaille & Samuelsson for Zubov & Nedved deal backfired on the Rangers. Messier & Verbeek then left and then the Rangers had a talent shortage. Probably Neil Smith's worst deal other than the Norstrom & Ray Ferraro to LA deal.

[@subraxas]

THIS ONE ^

[@faunbudweis]

let us not forget he (a Czech) represented Canada at the 94 Olympics..

[@xTechHockey]

Career videos are the best

[@Eric-zq6sb]

Nedved had his flaws and was inconsistent season to season, but his career points totals are actually pretty decent!!

[@dibs0equiped]

try "Salutations" next lol

[@campbellrockfarms168]

I remember when Edmonton traded for him and he came in hot picking the the top corners . I was pumped Edmonton finally had a pure shooter and then his wife noped moving to Edmonton. Then she divorced him a couple years later . And the oilers got him back but he was done by then

[@daledemanchuk7920]

used to call him 'peter nitwit' for all the holdouts....

[@subraxas]

:-D :-D

[@theresas14]

It's funny. I don't remember any of the drama. I just remember he was a good player.

[@djbryanladd]

I have his first black Penguins Road Jersey, Game worn.

[@sportsballnation415]

I've honestly maybe heard maybe 1 or 2 people who actually liked Nedved. Dude was hated massively

[@gamergod3378]

Jussi markkanen mentioned, lets meet at the market place perkele

[@subraxas]

:-D

[@BoyNamedSue4]

I’ll say this. He has a fun name to say

[@subraxas]

Devden, backwards. :-)

[@FalseCredential]

Really hoping for a Bobby Clarke video.

[@subraxas]

Dirty player . . . . just dirty!!

[@victorm3237]

I know I keep asking but please do à Craig Janney career video if you can!

[@vincentbassman]

can you do a Mats Sundin video please?

[@Yeayeayeayeayeayeayeayea]

I kinda wanna see one on Drury speaking of Rangers

[@subraxas]

Ted Drury? :-)

[@Yeayeayeayeayeayeayeayea]

@@subraxas No

[@t65-e4k]

Pls make a vid about the carrer of darius kasparaitis

[@johnyoung8745]

Totally forgot he played for the flyers (well all flyers fans want to forget those first few post lockout years)

[@noelsaloranta2702]

Speaking of polarizing players, could you do a Career of -of Alex Kovalev?

[@christopherhigbee]

All hail our lord and master...."THE HOCKEY GUY!!!!!"

[@TomasCyr]

I never disliked nedved as a rangers fan, but I didn't like giving up Kovelav for him. And he was never really the same after Lindros trucked the life out of him #LGR

[@hasekfan2450]

I am your biggest fan second to Hasek, sorry THG!

[@kevinhesspschamp8889]

Wait I wanna live long and prosper :(

[@kylespencer7756]

Has he used "what's crack-a-lackin" or "what's pop-a-loppin" yet?

[@CosmoConstant]

Robataille really struggled as a Ranger, as did Ulf.

[@MarquisdeSuave]

Petr "Don't Get Too Attached" Nedved

[@MadC-pu5or]

Chemistry is everything in any sport. Petr Nedved was good at playing the system for more money is all it was

[@oilers4life780]

Live long and prosper 🖖

[@videogamenoob100]

You should do a video on the career of Alex Kovalev

[@subraxas]

AK47

[@zachhirschler]

I don’t see anything wrong with asking Gretzky for his stick

[@lussier1958]

Not the full story, see my comment to Shannon.

[@robertkennett83]

Bondra next!

[@faw9148]

Ah, the face of the brutal god awful late 90-early 2000's Rangers teams

[@OttawaNow]

Peter Bondra and Keith Tkachuk