Michal Sersen

{{short description|Slovak ice hockey player}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|12|28|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Gelnica, Czechoslovakia

| ntl_team = SVK

| position = Defence

| shoots = Left

| league = Slovak

| team = HC Slovan Bratislava

| former_teams = Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
HC Sparta Praha
HC Lev Praha
HC ’05 Banská Bystrica

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 2

| weight_lb = 203

| draft = 130th overall

| draft_year = 2004

| draft_team = Pittsburgh Penguins

| career_start = 2002

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Michal Sersen (born December 28, 1985) is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for HC Slovan Bratislava of the Slovak Extraliga. Sersen was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins 130th overall in the 5th round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career

Sersen began his professional career with Bratislava at age 17 in 2002. During the 2002–03 season he had five goals and four assists in 33 games with the junior team before being promoted to the top-level Extraliga team. At the end of the season he entered the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Import Draft and was selected first overall by the Rimouski Océanic, where he was teammates with the Sidney Crosby, the Penguins' first selection in 2005. In his first season, he scored 25 points in 45 games and 6 points in 9 playoff games.{{cite web |url=http://www.hockeysfuture.com/prospects/michal_sersen |title=Michal Sersen |publisher=Hockey's Future |date=October 2, 2008 |accessdate=October 2, 2008}} He played the 2005–06 season for the Quebec Remparts, scoring 79 points in 63 games, and 21 points in 23 playoff games. That season he was on the Memorial Cup All-Star team, second-team QMJHL for the regular season and the 2005–06 QMJHL Plus-Minus champion.

After failing to earn a spot on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins roster in 2006, Sersen returned to Slovakia to again play for Bratislava.{{cite web |url=http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articles/9611/penguins_european_prospect_season_review |title=Penguins European Prospect Season Review |publisher=Hockey's Future |first=Jason |last=Seidling |date=April 27, 2007 |accessdate=December 6, 2008}} Pittsburgh traded the rights to Sersen to the Tampa Bay Lightning in October 2008.

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalSilver | 2012 Finland/Sweden | }}

{{MedalCompetition|World U18 Championships}}

{{MedalSilver | 2003 Russia | }}

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Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! colspan="5" | Regular season

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! colspan="5" | Playoffs

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! Season

! Team

! League

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

2001–02

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK U18

| 30

6111754

| 8

17814
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2001–02

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK U20

| 7

1232

| 1

0000
2002–03

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK U18

| 7

1126

| 6

0118
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2002–03

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 17

0000

| —

2003–04

| Rimouski Océanic

| QMJHL

| 45

7182530

| 9

1566
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2004–05

| Rimouski Océanic

| QMJHL

| 67

9334274

| 13

08818
2005–06

| Québec Remparts

| QMJHL

| 63

22577976

| 23

3182136
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2006–07

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 42

14528

| 14

0112
2007–08

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 54

991858

| 18

1236
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2008–09

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 40

4121649

| —

2009–10

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 41

381132

| 15

281028
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2010–11

| Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg

| KHL

| 51

381148

| —

2011–12

| HC Sparta Praha

| ELH

| 52

6192559

| 5

1126
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2012–13

| HC Lev Praha

| KHL

| 12

1016

| —

2012–13

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| KHL

| 29

17818

| 4

0114
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2013–14

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| KHL

| 33

3111428

| —

2014–15

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| KHL

| 59

5172279

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2015–16

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| KHL

| 57

481257

| 4

00029
2016–17

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| KHL

| 22

17810

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2016–17

| HC ’05 iClinic Banská Bystrica

| SVK

| 10

2460

| 15

15612
2017–18

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| KHL

| 29

45912

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2017–18

| HC ’05 iClinic Banská Bystrica

| SVK

| 2

0000

| —

2018–19

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| KHL

| 62

491333

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2019–20

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 54

5141926

| —

2020–21

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 43

1151632

| 10

02210
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2021–22

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 45

45916

| 16

17810
2022–23

| HC Slovan Bratislava

| SVK

| 50

16753

| 6

0220
bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | SVK totals

! 398

! 30

! 77

! 107

! 294

! 94

! 5

! 27

! 32

! 68

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | KHL totals

! 354

! 26

! 72

! 98

! 291

! 8

! 0

! 1

! 1

! 33

=International=

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ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! Year

! Team

! Event

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

2003

| Slovakia

| WJC18

| 7

0118
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2011

| Slovakia

| WC

| 1

0000
2012

| Slovakia

| WC

| 10

0004
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2013

| Slovakia

| WC

| 8

0226
2015

| Slovakia

| WC

| 7

1122
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2016

| Slovakia

| WC

| 4

0112
2017

| Slovakia

| WC

| 7

0114
bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | Senior totals

! 37

! 1

! 5

! 6

! 18

Awards and honors

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! Award

! Year

!

colspan="3"|Slovak
Champion

| 2003, 2007, 2008, 2017, 2022

|

References

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