Erik Černák

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Erik Černák
Date of birth May 28, 1997
place of birth Košice , Slovakia
size 192 cm
Weight 102 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2014 , 1st round, 14th position
HC Slovan Bratislava
NHL Entry Draft 2015 , 2nd round, 43rd position
Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
2012-2013 HC Slovan Bratislava
2013-2015 HC Košice
2015-2017 Erie Otters
since 2017 Syracuse crunch
since 2018 Tampa Bay Lightning

Erik Černák (* 28. May 1997 in Košice ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who since February 2017 with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League is under contract and in parallel for their farm team , the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League for use comes.

Career

Erik Černák was born in Košice and ran there in his youth for the youth departments of HC Košice . For the 2012/13 season he moved to HC Slovan Bratislava , who should select him in the KHL Junior Draft 2014 in 14th position. Before that, however, the defender returned to HC Košice after a year in the Slovak capital, for whose professional team he finally made his debut in the Extra League in the 2013/14 season . At the same time, he continued to play for the Slovak U20 national team, which took part in the Extraliga under the name of HK Orange 20 and with whom he had already played in the second-class first division last year. At the end of the 2013/14 season he won the Slovak championship with Košice , which he was able to defend with the team the following year.

Then considered him Los Angeles Kings in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft , so that it for season 2015/16 to North America in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the Erie Otters changed. Černák had previously signed an entry-level contract with the Kings in July 2015 . With the Erie Otters, the defender won the J. Ross Robertson Cup in the 2017 playoffs , before the team reached the final in the subsequent Memorial Cup and lost to the Windsor Spitfires . For the season 2017/18 the Slovak eventually switched in North America in the professional sector, where he has been for the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League comes (AHL) is used, the farm team of the Tampa Bay Lightning . The Lightning had received him and his compatriot Peter Budaj and two voting rights in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft - one conditional and one in the seventh round - from the LA Kings in February 2017 , while Ben Bishop and a five-round right to vote in the same draft by lot Angeles switched. For Tampa, Černák finally made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in November 2018 and has been regularly on the ice there ever since.

International

At the international level, Černák gained his first experience in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2013 before taking part in the U18 World Championships in 2013 and 2014 . However, he missed the medal ranks with the Slovak selection. The defender then took part in four consecutive U20 World Championships with the U20 national team of his home country between 2014 and 2017 , with the team winning the bronze medal in 2015 .

The defender made his debut for the Slovak national team during the 2017/18 season. He completed his first major international tournament with the 2019 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Černák in the national team jersey

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012/13 HC Slovan Bratislava U20 Slovakia U20 30th 4th 6th 10 +9 18th 12 0 1 1 -5 8th
2012/13 HK Orange 20 1st League 8th 2 0 2 18th - - - - - -
2013/14 HC Košice U20 Slovakia U20 8th 1 3 4th -1 16 - - - - - -
2013/14 HK Orange 20 Extra league 20th 2 1 3 –7 2 - - - - - -
2013/14 HC Košice Extra league 13 0 0 0 ± 0 0 7th 0 0 0 -3 2
2014/15 HC Košice Extra league 43 5 8th 13 +7 16 7th 0 1 1 +6 6th
2015/16 Erie Otters OHL 41 4th 11 15th +7 35 13 0 6th 6th +4 10
2016/17 Erie Otters OHL 50 3 18th 21st +31 53 22nd 1 8th 9 +17 10
2017 Erie Otters Memorial Cup 5 0 2 2 ± 0 2
2017/18 Syracuse crunch AHL 71 5 13 18th +30 70 7th 1 1 2 ± 0 4th
2018/19 Syracuse crunch AHL 9 2 5 7th −1 14th - - - - - -
2018/19 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 58 5 11 16 +25 58 4th 0 3 3 −2 0
Slovakia U20 overall 38 5 9 14th +8 34 12 0 1 1 -5 8th
Extraliga overall 76 7th 9 16 ± 0 18th 14th 0 1 1 +3 8th
OHL total 91 7th 29 36 +38 88 35 1 14th 15th +21 20th
AHL total 80 7th 18th 25th +29 84 7th 1 1 2 ± 0 4th

International

Represented Slovakia at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2013 Slovakia U17-WHC 10th place 5 0 0 0 8th
2013 Slovakia U18 World Cup 9th place 6th 0 2 2 -2 8th
2014 Slovakia U20 World Cup 8th place 5 0 0 0 -5 4th
2014 Slovakia U18 World Cup 8th place 5 0 0 0 +2 6th
2015 Slovakia U20 World Cup Bronze medal 6th 0 2 2 +1 4th
2016 Slovakia U20 World Cup 7th place 4th 0 0 0 +1 2
2017 Slovakia U20 World Cup 8th place 5 0 1 1 -3 2
2019 Slovakia WM 9th place 7th 3 2 5 +3 8th
Juniors overall 36 0 5 5 34
Men overall 7th 3 2 5 +3 8th

( 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 )

Personal

His cousin Christián Jaroš is also active as an ice hockey player in the NHL.

Web links

Commons : Erik Černák  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kings Sign Defenseman Erik Cernak To Three-Year Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, July 14, 2015, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ Bolts acquire Budaj, Cernak, and picks from Kings. nhl.com, February 27, 2017, accessed December 30, 2018 .
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Squad of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Černák, Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cernak, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Košice , Slovakia