Dominik Kubalík

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Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Dominik Kubalík Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 21, 1995
place of birth Pilsen , Czech Republic
size 187 cm
Weight 81 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2013 , 7th round, 191st position
Los Angeles Kings
KHL Junior Draft 2016 , 1st round, 20th position
Salawat Julajew Ufa
Career stations
to 2012 HC Plzeň 1929
2012-2014 Sudbury Wolves
2014 Kitchener Rangers
2014-2017 HC Plzeň 1929
2017-2019 HC Ambrì-Piotta
since 2019 Chicago Blackhawks

Dominik Kubalík (born August 21, 1995 in Pilsen ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League since May 2019 and plays for them in the position of left winger . His older brother Tomáš Kubalík is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Kubalík learned to play ice hockey in his native Pilsen at the local traditional club HC Plzeň in 1929 , for which he initially played in the youth department until the end of the 2011/12 season. As a 16-year-old, the winger was a regular in the U20 team and collected 20 points in 26 games this season . In the summer of 2012 Kubalík dared to take the next step in his career and, after being selected in the CHL Import Draft, moved to North America in the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League for the 2012/13 season . There the Czech played in 112 games for the Sudbury Wolves until January 2014 . He then moved within the league in exchange for his compatriot Radek Faksa for the Kitchener Rangers . The Rangers ended his time in North America in the summer of 2014, during which he was selected in the seventh round in the seventh round of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings from the National Hockey League .

For the 2014/15 season , Kubalík returned to his home club in Pilsen, where he made the leap to the professional team. In addition to 39 appearances for the club in the extra league , the rookie also appeared 20 times for the U20 team and played six games on loan in the 1st and 2nd league . In the following year Kubalík was the top scorer in the league with 25 goals. He successfully defended the title of top scorer in the 2016/17 season with an improvement to 29 goals. The attacker then signed a contract in May 2017 with the Russian club Salawat Julajew Ufa from the Continental Hockey League , which had secured its transfer rights in the KHL Junior Draft 2016 . However, before he played a game for the KHL club, he was committed in August of the same year by the Swiss club HC Ambrì-Piotta for the following three years. The management of the HCAP immediately loaned the offensive player to his ex-club in Plzeň for cost reasons, where Kubalík played 20 games up to November and again proved his scoring risk with 16 hits to date. He then strengthened Ambrì-Piotta in the National League and was able to avert relegation to the second-rate Swiss League with the team in the playout final . In the 2018/19 season , the Czech advanced to the league's top scorer and led the club to fifth place in the table with 57 points and 25 goals. At the end of the season he received the awards for best striker and most valuable player . His NHL transfer rights from the Los Angeles Kings were acquired by the Chicago Blackhawks at the beginning of 2019 in exchange for a five-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . The Blackhawks finally provided the attacker with an entry-level contract in May 2019 , which initially applies to the 2019/20 season . On October 5, 2019, he made his NHL debut for the Blackhawks as part of the NHL Global Series in Prague .

International

For his home country, Kubalík was on the ice in the junior division at the U18 Junior World Championship 2013 and the U20 Junior World Championship 2015 for the Czech junior national teams. The striker made his first appearances in the 2010/11 season in the U16 national team. As part of the two world championship tournaments Kubalík came to ten missions, in which he scored six times. He scored his only goal for the Czech U20 national team .

The attacker made his debut in the senior national team as part of the Euro Hockey Tour in the 2015/16 season . However, it was not until 2018 that he was nominated for a major international tournament, when he represented his national colors at both the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the 2018 World Cup in Denmark . Kubalík also played at the 2019 World Cup in Slovakia .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2011/12 HC Plzeň 1929 U20 U20 extra league 24 11 6th 17th 22nd 2 1 2 3 0
2011/12 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 8th 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2012/13 Sudbury Wolves OHL 67 17th 17th 34 25th 9 3 3 6th 4th
2013/14 Sudbury Wolves OHL 36 13 10 23 35 - - - - -
2013/14 Kitchener Rangers OHL 23 5 1 6th 11 - - - - -
2014/15 HC Plzeň 1929 U20 U20 extra league 16 18th 9 27 14th 4th 3 2 5 2
2014/15 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 35 3 4th 7th 35 4th 1 1 2 2
2014/15 BK Havlíčkův Brod 1st League 4th 1 1 2 4th - - - - -
2014/15 HC Klatovy 2nd league 2 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2015/16 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 48 25th 15th 40 20th 11 1 3 4th 8th
2016/17 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 51 29 19th 48 22nd 11 3 2 5 2
2017/18 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 20th 16 8th 24 2 - - - - -
2017/18 HC Ambrì-Piotta NL 25th 10 17th 27 39 10 1 1 6th 7th 4th
2018/19 HC Ambrì-Piotta NL 50 25th 32 57 18th 5 1 5 6th 6th
OHL total 126 35 28 63 71 9 3 3 6th 4th
U20 extra league overall 40 29 15th 44 36 6th 4th 4th 8th 2
Extraliga overall 162 74 46 120 79 26th 5 6th 11 12
National League overall 75 35 49 84 57 5 1 5 6th 6th

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2013 Czech Republic U18 World Cup 7th place 5 0 5 5 14th
2015 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 6th place 5 1 0 1 0
2018 Czech Republic Olympia 4th Place 5 2 0 2 2
2018 Czech Republic WM 7th place 8th 3 5 8th 0
2019 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 10 6th 6th 12 0
Juniors overall 10 1 5 6th 14th
Men overall 23 11 11 22nd 2

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kubalik from now on at Ambri-Piotta. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. Aargauer Zeitung , November 16, 2017, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ RELEASE: Blackhawks acquire Dominik Kubalík. Chicago has traded Los Angeles a 2019 fifth-round pick, in exchange for forward Dominik Kubalík. In: nhl.com. Chicago Blackhawks , January 25, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kubalik Makes NHL debut in Front of Family, Friends. In: nhl.com. October 5, 2019, accessed October 8, 2019 .
Squad of the Chicago Blackhawks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Kubalík, Dominik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kubalik, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsen , Czech Republic