Drahomír Kadlec

Drahomír Kadlec
Date of birth	November 29, 1965
place of birth	Příbram , Czechoslovakia
size	181 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1988 , 12th lap, 245th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1984-1986	TJ Poldi SONP Kladno
1986-1988	ASD Dukla Jihlava
1988-1990	TJ Poldi SONP Kladno
1990-1993	HIFK Helsinki
1993	TJ Poldi SONP Kladno
1993-1997	ESV Kaufbeuren
1997	HC Zlín
1997-1998	HC Litvínov
1998-1999	HC Slezan Opava
1999	Tappara Tampere
1999-2003	EC Bad Toelz
2003-2006	HC Neumarkt

Drahomír Kadlec (born November 29, 1965 in Příbram , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player .

Career

Drahomír Kadlec began his career as an ice hockey player with TJ Poldi SONP Kladno , for whose senior team he made his debut in the 1. ČNHL , the Czech relay of the second highest Czechoslovak division, in the 1984/85 season . With his team he immediately achieved promotion to the first division . After a year with Kladno in the top Czechoslovakian league, he had to do his military service and therefore played from 1986 to 1988 for the army sports club ASD Dukla Jihlava . He then returned to Kladno for another two years. From 1990 to 1993 the defender for HIFK Helsinki was on the ice in the Finnish SM-liiga . The 1993/94 season he began with his parent club from Kladno in the Czech Extra League, which was held for the first time after the division of Czechoslovakia , but left the club after only eleven games to play for ESV Kaufbeuren in the ice hockey Bundesliga . When the German ice hockey league , a new top division, was introduced in Germany for the 1994/95 season , the two-time Olympian stayed with Bayern for another two and a half years before finishing the 1996/97 season at HC Zlín in the Czech extra league .

From 1997 to 1999 Kadlec played one season each for the Extraliga participants HC Litvínov and HC Slezan Opava . For the 1999/2000 season he received a contract with Tappara Tampere from the SM-liiga, but left the Finns after only five point-free and punishable games and spent the following four years at EC Bad Tölz in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . Most recently, the Czech competed for HC Neumarkt in the Italian Serie A1 and Serie A2 from 2003 to 2006 , before ending his career at the age of 40.

International

For Czechoslovakia , Kadlec took part in the World Championships in 1987 , 1989 , 1990 and 1992 . In 1987 he was also in Czechoslovakia's squad for the Canada Cup and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . In all of his four World Cup appearances for Czechoslovakia, he and his team won bronze medals as well as at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

For the Czech Republic he took part in the World Championships in 1993 , 1994 and 1996 . He also represented his homeland at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and in 1996 the World Cup of Hockey . At the 1993 World Cup he won the bronze medal with the Czech Republic and the gold medal at the 1996 World Cup.

Achievements and Awards

• 1985 Promotion to the 1st division with TJ Poldi SONP Kladno

International

• 1985 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 1987 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1989 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1990 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1992 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 1992 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1993 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1996 gold medal at the world championship

Web links

• Drahomír Kadlec at hockeydb.com (English)
• Drahomír Kadlec at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Drahomír Kadlec at eurohockey.com
• Drahomír Kadlec in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )