Damian Kapica

Damian Kapica
Date of birth	July 18, 1992
place of birth	Nowy Targ , Poland
size	176 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2006-2011	Podhale Nowy Targ
2011–2012	HC Oceláři Třinec
2012-2014	JKH GKS Jastrzębie
2014-2015	Podhale Nowy Targ
since 2015	KS Cracovia

Damian Kapica (born July 18, 1992 in Nowy Targ ) is a Polish ice hockey player who has been under contract with KS Cracovia in the Ekstraliga since 2015 .

Career

Club

Damian Kapica began his career in the youth department of Podhale Nowy Targ , for whose second team he played in the second-class I league as a 14-year-old . In the 2009/10 season he moved to the first team of the Polish record champions and was able to win his first championship title with them in the same season . In 2011 he moved to HC Oceláři Třinec for a year , where he was used in the Czech U20 league. After two years at the Upper Silesian JKH GKS Jastrzębie , with whom he won the Polish Cup in 2013 , he returned to Nowy Targ in his hometown of Malopolskie for a year and became the top scorer in the Ekstraliga in 2015 . He has been playing at KS Cracovia since 2015 . With the club from the traditional university town, he won the Polish championship in 2016 and 2017 and the cup competition in 2016.

International

For Poland, Kapica took part in Division I of the U18 World Championships in 2008 , 2009 , when he was the best preparer of the tournament and also had the best plus / minus balance, and in 2010 , when he was voted the best player on his team, in the junior division . as well as the U20 World Championships in 2010 and 2012 , when the top scorer and top scorer - he scored all of his six goals in the 9-1 victory over the Croatian youngsters - and had the best plus / minus balance.

He made his debut in the men's national team at the Division I games of the 2012 World Cup . In the following years he was repeatedly used in the Polish national team, but his second World Cup participation was only in 2017 in Division I, in which he also played in 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 Polish champion with Podhale Nowy Targ
• 2013 Polish cup winner with the JKH GKS Jastrzębie
• 2015 top scorer of the Ekstraliga
• 2016 Polish champion and cup winner with KS Cracovia
• 2017 Polish champion with KS Cracovia

International

• 2009 Best assists in the U18 World Cup in Division I, Group A.
• 2009 Best plus / minus balance of the U18 World Cup in Division I, Group A.
• 2012 Topscorer of the U20 World Cup in Division I, Group B
• 2012 Top scorer of the U20 World Cup in Division I, Group B
• 2012 Best plus / minus balance of the U20 World Cup in Division I, Group B
• 2019 top scorer of the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2019 Top scorer of the World Cup in Division I, Group B (together with Filip Komorski and Vitaly Ljalka )
• 2019 Best plus / minus balance of the World Championship of Division I, Group B (together with Marcin Kolusz )

Ekstraliga statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	8th	285	117	147	264	156
Playoffs	7th	88	40	29	69	86

(As of the end of the 2017/18 season)

Web links

• Damian Kapica at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Damian Kapica at eurohockey.com