Ľubomír Kolník

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SlovakiaSlovakia  Ľubomír Kolník Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 23, 1968
place of birth Nitra , Czechoslovakia
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1990 , 6th lap, 116th position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
until 1987 HK Nitra
1987-1992 HC Dukla Trenčín
1992-1993 JoKP Joensuu
1993-1994 Lukko Rauma
1994-1995 HC Dukla Trenčín
1995-1996 Kiekko-Espoo
1996-2001 HC Slovan Bratislava
2001-2002 HK Nitra
2002-2003 HKm Zvolen
2003-2008 HK Nitra
2008-2009 HK 36 Skalica
HK Nové Zámky

Ľubomír Kolník (born January 23, 1968 in Nitra , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player who was very successful both nationally and internationally during his active time from 1986 to 2009.

Career

Ľubomír Kolník with the shirt for his 300th goal in the Slovak extra league

Ľubomír Kolník began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HK Nitra . For the club's first team, he made his debut in the second-highest Czechoslovak league, the 1st Slovenská národná hokejová league, in the 1986/87 season . In his rookie year he scored 18 goals and 14 assists. For the following season the center moved to HC Dukla Trenčín in the 1st league , the top division of Czechoslovakia in ice hockey. There he was able to assert himself immediately and was able to improve continuously in his first years at his new club. Following the 1989/90 season , in which he had scored 37 goals and 25 assists in 53 games, scouts from North America noticed him. Finally, he was selected in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft in the sixth round as a total of 116 players by the New Jersey Devils , who then did not take him under contract. Instead, he stayed with HC Dukla Trenčín, for whom he set up a new personal record in the 1990/91 season when he scored 79 points in a total of 58 games, including 39 goals. In the following season he won the Czechoslovak championship with his team . Although he was unable to match the points yield of the previous two years in the main round, he was a guarantee for reaching the championship with seven goals and eleven assists in his 18 playoffs.

Following the championship title with Trenčín, Kolník was looking for a new challenge and joined JoKP Joensuu from the I-divisioona , the second Finnish division. In his first season abroad he scored an average of almost two scorer points per game for the Finns and ended the season with 84 scorer points in 44 games. With JoKP he qualified for the relegation for promotion to the SM-liiga , but could not prevail in this with his team. The 1993/94 season began the left-handed shooter at JoKP Joensuu in the I-divisioona, where he scored 40 points in 22 games. So he was able to recommend himself for a contract with Lukko Rauma from the SM-liiga, the highest Finnish league. At Lukko Rauma, he also demonstrated his talent in one of the strongest European leagues. In a total of 34 games he scored 14 goals and ten assists. The Slovakian spent the 1994/95 season in his homeland with his ex-club HC Dukla Trenčín, for whom he was on the ice in the Slovak extra league that was formed after the division of Czechoslovakia . Again he was one of the top scorers both within the team and across the league and contributed 54 scorer points in 36 games. He then took up the challenge SM-liiga again, in which he played for Kiekko-Espoo in the 1995/96 season .

From 1996 to 2001 Kolnik ran for the Slovak top team HC Slovan Bratislava . With the capital city club he won the national championship title in the 1997/98 and 1999/2000 seasons . The final opponents were the TJ VSŽ Košice and the HKm Zvolen . Against Košice, the long-time Slovak national player and Olympic participant from 1994 and 1998 was also only defeated in the 1998/99 season in the playoff final, with Bratislava having home rights. From 2001 to 2003 he played for one year each for his home club HK Nitra and HKm Zvoeln in the Slovakian extra league. From the 2003/04 season he ran permanently for HK Nitra. With this he took first place after the main round in the 2005/06 season , where he had a large share with 28 goals as the top scorer in the league. In the playoffs he was eliminated with Nitra in the semifinals against the eventual master MsHK Žilina with 2: 4 wins in the best-of-seven series. After he had started the 2008/09 season in Nitra, he moved to league rivals HK 36 Skalica . With just one goal and three assists in 20 Extraliga games for both clubs, the veteran remained far behind his previous performances. Therefore, he joined the second division HK Nové Zámky , for whom he scored 20 scorer points in 13 games by the end of the season, including eleven goals. He then ended his career at the age of 41.

International

For the Czechoslovak national team Kolník first played at the 1991 World Cup in Finland . In the course of the tournament, he and his team took sixth place (with eight participants), whereby Czechoslovakia took the fourth of six places in the parallel, last time calculated evaluation for the European ice hockey championship . Only the duels between the European World Cup participants were rated here. He himself scored two goals and one assist in ten games. In August and September of the same year he joined his team at the Canada Cup . At the fifth edition of the tournament, which took place in preparation for the season and therefore, in contrast to the world championships , which collided with the National Hockey League , he did not get past sixth and last place with the Czechoslovak national team. In the only victory of his team in the course of the tournament, he scored the interim 1-0 in a 5-2 win against the Soviet Union . This was also his only goal success in five games.

After the division of Czechoslovakia , Kolník ran for the newly founded Slovak national team . With six points, including four goals, in four games in the qualifying tournament, he played a decisive role in Slovakia reaching the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , Norway . At the Olympic Winter Games, he was also able to convince with four goals and one assist in five games and achieved a respectable sixth place with the Slovak national team, which had only been founded a year earlier. At the World Championships, however, the team had to start again in the last World Cup stage, as the Czech national ice hockey team officially succeeded the Czechoslovak selection. Here the striker and his teammates managed to march straight through to the A-World Championship in the 1994 and 1995 events . At the A-World Championships itself Kolník finished with Slovakia in the tournaments in 1996 , 1997 and 1999 in each case a placement in the lower midfield. In addition, he joined his team in 1996 at the World Cup of Hockey , the successor to the Canada Cup tournament on. There Slovakia was allocated to the North American Pool together with Russia and lost all three games. In the narrow 3-2 defeat against the eventual finalists Canada , he achieved the interim 2-1 lead. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , he finished tenth with Slovakia. He himself remained pointless in four games and received two penalty minutes.

Kolník played a total of 61 official internationals for Czechoslovakia and Slovakia. He scored 19 goals and prepared 15. He also received a total of 22 penalty minutes.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
1986/87 HK Nitra 1. SNHL 18th 14th 32
1987/88 HC Dukla Trenčín 1st League 42 14th 8th 22nd 10
1988/89 HC Dukla Trenčín 1st League 27 7th 5 12 8th 9 3 2 5
1989/90 HC Dukla Trenčín 1st League 53 37 25th 62
1990/91 HC Dukla Trenčín 1st League 52 38 37 75 12 6th 1 3 4th 0
1991/92 HC Dukla Trenčín 1st League 37 19th 12 31 12 7th 11 18th
1992/93 JoKP Joensuu I-divisioona 44 46 38 84 26th
1993/94 JoKP Joensuu I-divisioona 22nd 23 17th 40 14th
1993/94 Lukko Rauma SM-liiga 25th 10 10 20th 10 9 4th 0 4th 2
1994/95 HC Dukla Trenčín Extraliga Svk 36 31 23 54 24
1995/96 Kiekko-Espoo SM-liiga 47 13 12 25th 43
1996/1997 HC Slovan Bratislava Extraliga Svk 48 34 29 63 12
1997/1998 HC Slovan Bratislava Extraliga Svk 45 24 26th 50 8th
1998/1999 HC Slovan Bratislava Extraliga Svk 48 27 27 54 10
1999/00 HC Slovan Bratislava Extraliga Svk 66 33 26th 59 34
2000/01 HC Slovan Bratislava Extraliga Svk 56 28 24 52 24
2001/02 HK Nitra Extraliga Svk 52 24 10 34 22nd
2002/03 HKm Zvolen Extraliga Svk 54 24 26th 50 20th
2003/04 HK Nitra Extraliga Svk 54 18th 13 31 18th
2004/05 HK Nitra Extraliga Svk 53 19th 18th 37 31 5 2 1 3 0
2005/06 HK Nitra Extraliga Svk 54 28 20th 48 42 13 5 3 8th 16
2006/07 HK Nitra Extraliga Svk 54 22nd 19th 41 62 6th 1 2 3 2
2007/08 HK Nitra Extraliga Svk 54 12 13 25th 73
2008/09 HK Nitra Extraliga Svk 10 1 3 4th 6th
2008/09 HK 36 Skalica Extraliga Svk 10 0 0 0 4th
2008/09 HK Nové Zámky 1st league Svk 13 11 9 20th 34
SM-liiga total 72 23 22nd 45 53 9 4th 0 4th 2
I-divisioona total 66 69 55 124 40 - - - - -
1st league (Cze) overall 211 115 87 202 30th 27 11 16 27 0
Extraliga (Svk) total 691 325 277 602 390 24 8th 6th 14th 18th

International

Represented Czechoslovakia in:

Represented Slovakia at:

year team event GP G A. Pts PIM
1991 Czechoslovakia A-WM 10 2 1 3 0
1991 Czechoslovakia CC 5 1 0 1 2
1993 Slovakia Olympic torment. 4th 4th 2 6th 0
1994 Slovakia Olympia 8th 4th 1 5 2
1994 Slovakia C-WM 1 0 0 0 0
1995 Slovakia B-WM 7th 6th 5 11 0
1996 Slovakia A-WM 5 0 2 2 4th
1996 Slovakia WCup 3 1 0 1 0
1997 Slovakia A-WM 8th 2 2 4th 4th
1998 Slovakia Olympia 4th 0 0 0 2
1999 Slovakia A-WM 6th 3 2 5 8th
Men overall 61 19th 15th 34 22nd

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Kolník, Ľubomír
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolnik, Lubomir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Nitra , Czechoslovakia