Ivan Čiernik

Ivan Čiernik
Date of birth	October 30, 1977
place of birth	Levice , Czechoslovakia
size	183 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 27
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1996 , 9th round, 216th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
1994-1997	MHC Plastika Nitra
1997-1998	Worcester IceCats
1998-1999	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks Adirondack Red Wings
1999-2001	Grand Rapids Griffins
2001-2002	Ottawa Senators
2002-2004	Washington Capitals
2004-2005	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2005-2008	Cologne Sharks
2008-2009	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2009-2011	Cologne Sharks
2011–2012	Malmo Redhawks
2012-2013	Hanover Scorpions
2013-2016	Augsburg panther
2016-2018	Ice pirates Crimmitschau

Ivan Čiernik (born October 30, 1977 in Levice , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player with German nationality who was under contract with the ice pirates Crimmitschau from the DEL2 until April 2018 .

Career

Ivan Čiernik began his ice hockey career in his Slovak homeland at MHC Plastika Nitra . There the winger from 1994 played for three years for both the junior team and the professional team in the extra league . After Čiernik was drafted in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft in 216th place by the Ottawa Senators , he decided a year later to move to North America. In his first season, the attacker was mainly used for the farm team of the Senators in Worcester, but still received initial missions in the NHL. In 1998/99 he played exclusively in the American Hockey League for the Adirondack Red Wings and the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks . The next two years the Slovak played for the Grand Rapids Griffins in the International Hockey League , where he also played sporadic games for the Ottawa Senators.

In the 2001/02 season , Čiernik played a large part of the year in the NHL, first for Ottawa and later for the Washington Capitals . In the following year, the striker got regular missions for the Capitals, with which he failed again early in the play-offs . The 2003/04 season meant a step backwards for Čiernik, as he again had to play a major part of the season in the AHL. After the end in the first play-off round, the Slovak moved back to Europe, where he joined the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg in the DEL . Right off the bat, he developed into one of the best winger in the league and played a major role in the league newcomer's sporting relegation. However, the Wolfsburg had to relegate, which is why Čiernik decided to switch to the Cologne Sharks . There he increased his points yield to 61 points in 51 games in the 2005/06 season , making him one of the best players of the year, which earned him an invitation to the 2006 All-Star Game . In addition, Čiernik was chosen by a jury as the "best winger in the DEL" in the annual vote of the specialist magazine Ice Hockey News . In the regular 2007/2008 season , Ivan Čiernik scored 38 goals for the Haie and was therefore the top scorer for Cologne. He ended the subsequent play-off round with 11 goals as the top scorer of the 2007/08 play-offs .

Although his contract in Cologne ran until 2011, Čiernik launched a move to HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the newly founded Continental Hockey League in summer 2008 , as he was allegedly insulted by Haie coach Doug Mason after the lost final of the 2007/08 season was. After just one year, the Slovak returned to the KEC in the summer of 2009, where he received a one-year contract with an option for another season. For the 2011/12 season, the Slovak moved to the Malmö Redhawks from HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division. After a season in Sweden, the father of two sons returned to Germany and signed a contract with the Hannover Scorpions from the DEL for the 2012/13 season . He then moved to the Augsburg Panthers for the 2013/14 season .

After three years in Augsburg, Čiernik joined the German second division Eispiraten Crimmitschau in August 2016 .

International

For Slovakia , Čiernik took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 1997 and the World Championships in 2006 , 2007 , 2008 and 2010 .

Achievements and Awards

2005 Participation in the DEL All-Star Game 2006 Participation in the DEL All-Star Game 2006 Award for best winger of the 2005/06 season by the specialist magazine Ice Hockey News

2007 participation in the DEL All-Star Game 2008 Participation in the DEL All-Star Game 2008 top scorer in the DEL playoffs

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1994/95	MHC Plastika Nitra	SVK		6th	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	MHC Plastika Nitra	SVK		35	9	7th	16	36		8th	3	3	6th	6th
1996/97	MHC Plastika Nitra	SVK		41	11	19th	30th	78		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Worcester IceCats	AHL		53	9	12	21st	38		1	0	0	0	2
1997/98	Ottawa Senators	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		32	10	3	13	10		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		21st	1	4th	5	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		66	13	12	25th	64		6th	0	6th	6th	2
2000/01	Grand Rapids Griffins	IHL		66	27	38	65	53		10	5	6th	11	26th
2000/01	Ottawa Senators	NHL		4th	2	0	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Ottawa Senators	NHL		23	1	2	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		2	2	1	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Portland Pirates	AHL		26th	10	5	15th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Washington Capitals	NHL		6th	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Washington Capitals	NHL		47	8th	10	18th	24		2	0	1	1	6th
2002/03	Portland Pirates	AHL		13	4th	6th	10	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Portland Pirates	AHL		54	10	21st	31	43		7th	2	1	3	0
2003/04	Washington Capitals	NHL		7th	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		50	26th	22nd	48	91		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Cologne Sharks	DEL		51	29	31	60	86		9	4th	2	6th	30th
2006/07	Cologne Sharks	DEL		47	17th	31	48	58		9	6th	4th	10	18th
2007/08	Cologne Sharks	DEL		56	38	28	66	104		14th	11	2	13	14th
2008/09	HK Sibir Novosibirsk	KHL		50	5	14th	19th	40		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Cologne Sharks	DEL		55	27	30th	57	89		3	3	0	3	2
2010/11	Cologne Sharks	DEL		52	12	23	35	30th		5	1	3	4th	18th
2011/12	Malmo Redhawks	Allsvenskan		41	7th	6th	13	24		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		52	25th	20th	45	46		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Augsburg panther	DEL		52	20th	25th	45	44		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Augsburg panther	DEL		52	16	14th	30th	53		-	-	-	-	-
Extraliga (SVK) overall				82	21st	26th	47	116		8th	3	3	6th	6th
IHL total				66	27	38	65	53		10	5	6th	11	26th
AHL total				201	46	52	98	129		8th	2	1	3	2
NHL overall				89	12	14th	26th	32		2	0	1	1	6th
DEL total				467	210	224	434	601		47	29	14th	43	104
KHL total				50	5	14th	19th	40		-	-	-	-	-
Allsvenskan total				41	7th	6th	13	24		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

Commons : Ivan Čiernik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ivan Čiernik at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Ivan Čiernik at eurohockey.com
• Ivan Čiernik at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eispiraten on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed April 3, 2018]).
2. ↑ hockeyweb.de: Ciernik bester outside , accessed on February 19, 2013
3. ↑ express.de, Perfect! Top striker Ivan Ciernik a shark again ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Ivan Ciernik and Mark Lee reinforce Ice Pirates Storm. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .