Eduard Novák

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Eduard Novák (born November 27, 1946 in Buštěhrad , Czechoslovakia ; † October 21, 2010 ) was a Czech ice hockey player who played for Poldi SONP Kladno and the Czechoslovak national team on the right wing for many years . After retiring, he worked as an ice hockey coach and ran a sporting goods store.

Career as a player

Eduard Novák completed during his time in the top division of Czechoslovakia 560 league games in 16 seasons and scored 306 goals. He began his career with Poldi Kladno and later played one season each for Dukla Kosice (1965/66), Dukla Pisek (1966/67) TJ Gottwaldov (1980/81). He won five Czechoslovak championship titles with Kladno (1975-78 and 1980). After these successes, Novák received permission to move to western countries. His first position abroad was EC Klagenfurt (1981/82), later he moved to the Japanese club Furukawa Denko (1982-84) and finally to Duisburger SC in the 1984/85 season.

In addition to his career at club level, Eduard Novák also had great success in international championships. With the Czechoslovak men's selection , he won two medals at the Olympic Winter Games and five medals at world championships . He received his first appointment to the national team for the ice hockey world championship in 1971 (winning the silver medal) and from then on he regularly took part in the world championship. A year later he was appointed to the squad for the 1972 Winter Olympics and won the bronze medal. 1976 followed another Olympic participation, in which he won the silver medal with the Czechoslovak selection. In the national jersey, he scored 48 goals in 113 international matches for Czechoslovakia.

Career as a coach

Since the end of his career, Novák worked as a coach. In the 1986/87 season he trained his hometown club Poldi Kladno. At the beginning of the season 1988/89 he took over the TJ Gottwaldov and looked after this club for two years. He later returned to Kladno before he was at the end of the 1992/93 season on the gang of HC Škoda Plzeň . During the 1993/94 season he took over the coaching position at EV Duisburg and thus returned to his last player position. His engagement with the Füchsen ended during the following season, but he returned in the course of the 1997/98 season. After his first engagement in Duisburg, Novák briefly trained the Schalke Haie . He also looked after his sporting goods store, which he ran together with František Kaberle senior . In the 1996/97 season he was again head coach at HC Zlín. In December 1997 he resigned and took over the second division HC Kralupy nad Vltavou in summer 1999 . But he was not employed there for long either, but returned to Kladno in December 1999 and coached the HC Kladno team until the end of the 2000/01 season. Since then he has run an ice hockey school in Mariánské Lázně together with František Kaberle senior . Novák died in his sleep on October 21, 2010 as a result of a heart attack . He was buried in Kladno on October 28, 2010.

Achievements and Awards

  • Czechoslovak championship title 1975-78 and 1980
  • Gold medal at the 1976 and 1977 World Championships
  • Silver medal at the World Championships in 1971, 1975
  • Bronze medal at the 1973 World Championships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Novak est décédé ( Memento of October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
  2. ↑ azhockey.com, Novák, Eduard ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ derwesten.de, obituary
  4. ↑ hrajemehokej.cz, Eduard Novák profile
personal data
SURNAME Novák, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Novak, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Buštěhrad , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2010