Csaba Kovács

Csaba Kovács
Date of birth	March 18, 1984
place of birth	Budapest , Hungary
size	182 cm
Weight	71 kg
position	striker
number	# 21
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1999-2002	Notre Dame Hounds
2002-2016	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
2016-2017	MAC Budapest
since 2017	Újpesti TE

Csaba Kovács ( Hungarian Kovács Csaba ; born March 18, 1984 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Újpesti TE from the MOL league since 2017 .

Career

Csaba Kovács began his career as a hockey player with the Notre Dame Hounds in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. In 2002 he moved back to Hungary and played for Alba Volán Székesfehérvár , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Hungarian ice hockey league in the 2002/03 season . In his rookie year , the attacker became Hungarian champions for the first time with his team . The left-handed shooter was able to repeat this success in the following nine seasons with Alba, where he was on the ice since Alba's inclusion in the 2007/08 season in the Austrian ice hockey league alongside this until 2012 in the Hungarian ice hockey league . In addition, the Hungarian completed a total of 18 games for the Swedish club Grums IK in the 2006/07 season . In 2016 he moved to local rivals MAC Budapest and a year later to Újpesti TE .

International

For Hungary , Kovács initially took part in the U18-B World Championship in 1999 and the European Division I of the U18 World Championship in 2000 and, after the conversion to the current division system, in Division II in 2001 and 2002 as well as Division I in 2000 and the U20 junior World Championships of Division II 2001 , 2002 and 2003 as well as Division I 2004 .

In the senior division, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in Division I in 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 and 2015 as well as in the top division at the World Championships in 2009 and 2016 . He also represented the Magyars at the qualifying tournaments for the Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006 , in Vancouver in 2010 , in Sochi in 2014 and in Pyeongchang in 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

2003 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2004 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2005 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2006 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2007 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár

2008 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2009 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2010 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2011 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2012 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár

International

• 2003 Promotion to Division I at the U20 Junior World Championship of Division II
• 2008 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2015 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.

ÖEHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	9	454	96	136	232	211
Playoffs	4th	21st	1	7th	8th	10

(Status: end of the 2015/16 season)

Web links

• Csaba Kovács at hockeydb.com (English)
• Csaba Kovács at eurohockey.com
• Csaba Kovács at eliteprospects.com (English)