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| Position | Left wing |
| Shoots | Left |
| Height Weight |
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 195 lb (89 kg) |
| NHL Team | New Jersey Devils |
| Nationality | CZE |
| Born | April 13 1976 , Třebíč, CS |
| NHL Draft | 51st overall, 1994 New Jersey Devils |
| Pro Career | 1995 – present |
Patrik Elias (born April 13, 1976) is a Czech professional hockey left winger and alternate captain for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League. He has garnered much popularity for his puck-handling ability and ability to strike from any place on the ice. A long-time Devil, Eliáš is the franchise's all-time leading scorer, while also holding franchise records for most points in a season (96) and most career game-winning goals (60). Eliáš is also tied with Mats Sundin, Sergei Fedorov, and fellow Czech Jaromír Jágr for the most overtime goals scored in the NHL (15).
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Eliáš was drafted by the New Jersey Devils 51st overall (2nd round) in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.
As part of the A Line with Petr Sýkora and Jason Arnott, he helped lead the team to the 1999–2000 Stanley Cup championship. He assisted on Arnott's Cup-clinching goal in double overtime in Game 6 at Dallas. The following year he scored a team record 96 points in the regular season, third best in the league. He also played a key role in helping New Jersey win the Stanley Cup in 2002–03.
During the 2004–05 NHL lockout, he played hockey in Russia, where he contracted Hepatitis A from the food he ate while there. His bout with the disease severely weakened him, resulting in a weight loss of 30 pounds and being confined to a bed for 4 weeks. It kept him out of NHL action until after the lockout was resumed.
Three months into the 2005–06 season, he made his first appearance of the season on January 3, 2006, against the Florida Panthers, resuming his role as an alternate captain (replacing Alexander Mogilny). He picked up where he left off, scoring eight points in his first four games and helping the Devils win his first nine games back with the team. Paired with Brian Gionta and Scott Gomez to form the "EGG Line", Eliáš helped the team instrument a historic comeback and win the Atlantic Division title, despite being 19 points out of first place when he returned in January. In the first game of the 2006 playoffs against the New York Rangers, he became the 10th player to score six points in an NHL playoff game, with two goals and four assists. Eliáš' 2006 postseason campaign was spectacular, even though the Devils were eliminated by eventual Cup champions, Carolina, in the second round. Eliáš scored 6 goals and added 10 assists for an impressive 16 points in just 9 games.
He was named the Devils new captain on October 5, 2006, becoming the seventh captain in team history. The previous captain of the Devils was Canadian born defenceman Scott Stevens, now retired. He is also the first European born captain in the history of the franchise.
At the start of the 2007–08 season, Eliáš was stripped of the captaincy by new coach Brent Sutter. The Devils named Jamie Langenbrunner captain on December 5, 2007.
Sutter later placed Eliáš on a top scoring line which consisted of Dainus Zubrus and Brian Gionta. Eliáš is also known to work well with Devils superstar Zach Parise, with whom he occasionally plays with on "heroes line" and frequently plays with on the power-play unit.
On March 17, 2009, Eliáš became the New Jersey Devils' all-time leading scorer by recording his 702nd regular season point, an assist on Brian Gionta's shorthanded goal. Gionta's goal was the game-winner in a 3-2 win over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks, giving the edge for Martin Brodeur's record-breaking 552nd win as a goaltender to pass Patrick Roy, who held the former record at 551 wins. Chants of "Pa-trik E-li-as" were heard as Devils' PA announcer Kevin Clark confirmed to the crowd that Eliáš had broken John MacLean's record. Eliáš was the second star of the night, only behind Brodeur. He saluted the crowd wearing a green tophat in honor of St. Patrick's Day.
Eliáš married Petra Volakova in 2007; they currently reside in New Jersey.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1992–93 | HC Rabat Kladno | Czecho | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 | HC Rabat Kladno | CzEx | 15 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 1994–95 | HC Rabat Kladno | CzEx | 28 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 37 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | ||
| 1995–96 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 74 | 27 | 36 | 63 | 83 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1995–96 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1996–97 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 57 | 24 | 43 | 67 | 76 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
| 1996–97 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 17 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | ||
| 1997–98 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997–98 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 74 | 18 | 19 | 37 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1998–99 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 74 | 17 | 33 | 50 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 1999–00 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 72 | 35 | 37 | 72 | 58 | 23 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 9 | ||
| 1999–00 | HC Pardubice | CzEx | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 31 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2000–01 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 82 | 40 | 56 | 96 | 51 | 25 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 10 | ||
| 2001–02 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 75 | 29 | 32 | 61 | 36 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | ||
| 2002–03 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 81 | 28 | 29 | 57 | 22 | 24 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 26 | ||
| 2003–04 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 82 | 38 | 43 | 81 | 44 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 2004–05 | HC JME Znojemští Orli | CzEx | 28 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 65 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2004–05 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | RSL | 17 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2005–06 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 38 | 16 | 29 | 45 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 4 | ||
| 2006–07 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 75 | 21 | 48 | 69 | 38 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 4 | ||
| 2007–08 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 74 | 20 | 35 | 55 | 38 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 2008–09 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 77 | 31 | 47 | 78 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| NHL totals | 822 | 295 | 411 | 706 | 403 | 133 | 40 | 73 | 113 | 77 | ||||
| Olympic medal record | ||
| Men's ice hockey | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bronze | 2006 Turin | Ice hockey |
Eliáš played his first game in the national squad in 1998, and has played 20 times for the national team (as of April 2009).
| Year | Team | Competition | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Czech Republic | W.Champ | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2002 | Czech Republic | Oly | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2004 | Czech Republic | W.Cup | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | |
| 2006 | Czech Republic | Oly | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2008 | Czech Republic | W.Champ | 7 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | |
| Senior int'l totals | 20 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 18 | |||
| Preceded by Chris Pronger |
Co-winner of the NHL Plus/Minus Award (with Joe Sakic) 2001 |
Succeeded by Chris Chelios |
| Preceded by Scott Stevens Scott Niedermayer |
New Jersey Devils captains 2006–07 |
Succeeded by Jamie Langenbrunner |
| This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Patrik Elias. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Ice Hockey Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
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