height_ft former_teams weight_lb shoots birth_place draft_year team career_end position draft_team league height_in birth_date article_title draft ntl_team career_start
6 edmonton oilers minnesota wild 190 left olomouc , tch 1994 cze 2013 defence edmonton oilers serie a 2 25 march 1975 ladislav benýšek
 266th overall cze 1992
ladislav benýšek

ladislav benýšek -lrb- born march 25 , 1975 in olomouc , czechoslovakia -rrb- is a czech professional ice hockey defenceman who has played parts of four seasons at the national hockey league level , with the edmonton oilers and minnesota wild .
he currently plays for hc asiago in italy 's serie a -lrb- ice hockey -rrb- .
benýšek was selected by the oilers in the 11th round of the 1994 nhl entry draft , 266th overall , after spending the previous season with his hometown hc olomouc of the czech league .
following the draft , benýšek came over to north america , and spent the 1994 -- 95 season with the cape breton oilers , edmonton 's ahl farm team .
benýšek returned to europe for the next two seasons , playing for olomouc and sparta praha .
electing to again spend a season in north america , benýšek played his first nhl hockey in the 1997 -- 98 season , going pointless in two games .
aside from that brief stint , however , benýšek was again confined to the ahl , where he played for the hamilton bulldogs .
despite eventually being claimed off waivers by the mighty ducks of anaheim , benýšek would spend the next three seasons back with sparta praha .
it was not until the 2000 nhl expansion draft , when the newly formed minnesota wild selected benýšek from the ducks that he got the opportunity to play regular minutes .
for the next two seasons , benýšek was an integral part of the wild blueline .
in his third season with the wild , benysek played only 14 games before being assigned to the ahl 's houston aeros .
following the completion of the season , benýšek returned to europe , where he joined hifk in finland 's sm-liiga and also had a spell in sweden with leksands if .
in 2006 , benýšek rejoined sparta praha for a third spell which lasted just one season before he moved to france 's ligue magnus for dragons de rouen .
in 2008 , benýšek moved to denmark 's oddset ligaen with totempo hvik .
