The Most Interesting Resume In Hockey

[Locke]

I read this and thought it was interesting enough to worth sharing.

When I printed Jarrod Skalde’s career stats they rolled out in two pages, with the ink drifting past the middle of the second sheet. It's an understatement to say the list contained a lot of numbers, a lot of teams and a lot of leagues.

Mike Sillinger owns the distinction of playing on the most NHL teams, touching 12. Four players have played for 10 teams, 14 players have suited up for nine, and you’ll find Skalde in the jumble of 40-or-so players who’ve dressed for eight.

While impressive, it’s not Skalde’s eight teams or his 115 games at hockey’s highest level that make him unique. He stands out thanks to the unparalleled breadth of his sweeping professional resume as a whole, which saw him play for 27 teams throughout six countries in eight leagues over 18 seasons for a total of 1,125 games.

http://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/627964

Absolutely amazing. And of course, he played for the Flames in 95/96.

[Itse]

Cool story, although that stat is inflated by him playing 9 games in two different countries for his last season.

Also, what's up with HK Jesenice playing both in the Austrian and the Slovenian league? How's that work?

In any case, strip that outlier and it's four countries and six leagues, which probably isn't that unique. Esa Tikkanen did five countries and seven leagues. Also, what's cool about his story is his stint in Korea, where he played 30 games as a player-coach, three years after his retirement Plus he played in the olympics and of course has six Stanley Cup rings.

[devo22]

Originally Posted by Itse

Also, what's up with HK Jesenice playing both in the Austrian and the Slovenian league? How's that work?

well around 2000 a couple of Austrian teams went bankrupt and the league had problems to find enough teams ... from 2003 to 2005, there were only 7 teams in the league, so they eventually decided to let foreign teams join the league. Slovenian team HK Jesenice was the first team to do so in 2006, with Olimpija Ljubljana (also from Slovenia) and Szekesfehervar (from Hungary) joining a year later. Slovenia still had a league on their own though, and they decided that Jesenice and Ljubljana would automatically be qualified for the Slovenian playoffs as well. Generally, those two teams were clearly superior to the teams of the Slovenian league and battled it out for the Slovenian championship every year (Jesenice won it 9 times, Ljubljana 14 times ... no one else has won it so far). And that kids is the story of how Jarrod Skalde managed to play for the same team in the two different leagues.

HK Jesenice folded in 2012 by the way. They had massive financial problems during their final years and were forced to rely on youth players a lot. They became a bottom dweller because of that and eventually had to give up completely.