Ladislav Ščurko

Ladislav Ščurko
Born	(1986-04-04) April 4, 1986 Gelnica, CS
Height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight	205 lb (93 kg; 14 st 9 lb)
Position	Centre
Shoots	Left
1HL team Former teams	HC 46 Bardejov HC Košice
National team	Slovakia
NHL Draft	170th overall, 2004 Philadelphia Flyers
Playing career	2007–2009 2011–present

Ladislav Ščurko (born April 4, 1986 in Gelnica) is a Slovak professional ice hockey center who currently plays for HC 46 Bardejov of the Slovak 1.Liga. He previously played for HC Košice of the Slovak Extraliga until he confessed to the murder of a referee in 2009.

Playing career

Ščurko started his junior career by playing in 37 games with his junior team, HK VTJ Spisská Nová Ves, in Slovakia. He scored 44 points on 20 goals and 24 assists. Following that season he was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the sixth round, 170th overall, in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. Shortly after, he was drafted seventh overall in the CHL Import Draft by the Seattle Thunderbirds. In his first year in the Western Hockey League (WHL), he scored 42 points, which put him in fifth in the league for points scored by a rookie. Ladislav also set a Thunderbird record with a nine-game point streak from December 11, 2004 through January 12, 2005, during which he scored 12 points. He enjoyed similar success in fewer games the following season.

Murder

Ladislav Ščurko
Born	Ladislav Ščurko (1986-04-04) April 4, 1986 Gelnica
Criminal penalty	Eight years' imprisonment

Conviction(s)	Murder
Killings
Victims	1 killed (Marek Liptaj)
Span of killings	January 2008–
Country	Slovakia
Date apprehended	April 23, 2009 (2009-04-23)

On April 23, 2009, Ščurko confessed to the murder of referee Marek Liptaj in January 2008 at a motorway service area near Kosice.^[1] He admitted that he killed Liptaj by stabbing him fourteen times with a knife.^[1] Liptaj's body was hastily buried in a forest.^[1] No motive has been revealed yet, but police say the crime was not premeditated.^[2]

On July 16, 2012, Ščurko was convicted of the murder; however, because psychiatric examinations found that Ščurko committed the act in a state of diminished sanity, the court sentenced him to the minimum penalty of eight years in prison.

First imprisonment

He served his first sentence from April 2009 to November 2011.

Life after the first release

Ščurko was released from jail on November 8, 2011. He is going to play his first hockey game after the release from prison on December 3, 2011, playing for his boyhood club HK Slovan Gelnica.

Second imprisonment

Ščurko served the rest of his sentence from September 2014 to December 2015 and was finally conditionally released before Christmas in 2015.

Playing career after the second release

He signed a contract with HC 46 Bardejov, which plays in the second-level ice hockey league in Slovakia, only one week after the release. He played his first game for HC 46 Bardejov on Decemeber 22, 2015.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2003–04	HK VTJ Spisská Nová Ves	SVK U20	37	20	24	44	102	6	6	2	8	8
2003–04	HK VTJ Spisská Nová Ves	SVK-2	30	2	3	5	16	2	0	1	1	2
2004–05	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL	67	18	25	43	40	12	5	1	6	10
2005–06	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL	64	17	26	43	41	7	2	4	6	2
2006–07	Tri-City Americans	WHL	12	4	6	10	18	—	—	—	—	—
2007–08	HC Košice	SVK	32	0	2	2	30	—	—	—	—	—
2007–08	HK VTJ Trebišov	SVK-2	17	7	4	11	48	—	—	—	—	—
2008–09	HC Košice	SVK	52	7	5	12	38	—	—	—	—	—
SVK totals			84	7	7	14	68	—	—	—	—	—
WHL totals			143	39	57	96	99	19	7	5	12	12

International

Ladislav Ščurko
Medal record

Competitor for Slovakia
Men's ice hockey
World U18 Championships
	2003 Yaroslavl

Year	Team	Event	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2003	Slovakia Jr.	WJC U18	7	0	2	2	2
2004	Slovakia Jr.	WJC U18	6	0	3	3	6
2005	Slovakia Jr.	WJC	6	0	0	0	6
2006	Slovakia Jr.	WJC	6	2	0	2	16

Records

Seattle Thunderbirds' franchise record for longest point streak: 9 games (12 points, from 11 December 2004 to 12 January 2005)

References

1 2 3 Panaccio, Tim (2009-04-24). "Flyers Prospect Accused of Murder". CSNPhilly.com. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
↑ "HC Kosice Player Confesses to Murder of Referee". 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2009-04-24.

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