Kukumberg joins the 100 Club

Slovakia’s 3:0 victory over the Czech Republic at the Slovnaft Arena saw Kukumberg reach the 100 appearance mark, with him having scored 21 goals in the jersey with the dual cross. The national record holder is defenceman Martin Štrbák, who has played 162 games for his country. The top scorer in the history of the Slovak national team is Miroslav Šatan, who has found the back of the net 80 times in 159 games.

Kukumberg made his debut for Slovakia in 4:3 defeat to the Czech Republic in Plzen on November 5^th 2002. His first goal for Slovakia came six weeks later in Moscow, as he scored the lone goal in Slovakia’s 1:3 loss to Russia in the Baltika Cup on December 21^st 2002.

Slovak hockey players with at least 100 games in the national team – as of April 20^th 2013:

1. Martin Štrbák 162 games(13 goals), 2. Miroslav Šatan 159 (80), 3. Ľubomír Sekeráš 152 (29), 4. Peter Pucher 144 (23), 5. Ľubomír Višňovský 141 (18), 6. Richard Kapuš 136 (16), 7. Dominik Graňák 130 (6), 8. Stanislav Jasečko 128 (9), 9. Tomáš Starosta 126 (5), 10. Ladislav Čierny 123 (11), 11. Ján Pardavý 120 (45), 12. Vlastimil Plavucha 119 (44), 13. Jozef Daňo 117 (45) and Branislav Jánoš 117 (37), 15. Ľubomír Kolník 109 (59), 16. Zdeno Cíger 108 (34), 17. Ľubomír Bartečko 107 (22), 18. Branko Radivojevič 106 (17) and Marcel Hossa 106 (26), 20. Richard Lintner 105 (14), 21. Róbert Petrovický 100 (28), Jozef Stümpel 100 (22) and Roman Kukumberg 100 (21)