Ján Tabaček (ice hockey player)

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SlovakiaSlovakia  Ján Tabaček Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 7, 1980
place of birth Martin , Czechoslovakia
size 182 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
number # 80
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2001 , 6th round, 170th position
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Career stations
until 2001 MHC Martin
2001-2002 HC Slovan Bratislava
2002-2003 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
Dayton Bombers
2003-2005 HC Slovan Bratislava
2005-2008 HC Sparta Prague
2008–2012 HC Košice
2012-2013 HC Slovan Bratislava
2013-2014 Tappara Tampere
2014-2015 ZSC Lions
GCK Lions
since 2015 MHC Martin

Ján Tabaček (born April 7, 1980 in Martin , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who has been under contract with MHC Martin in the Slovak extra league since 2015 .

Career

Ján Tabaček began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth division of the MHC Martin , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Slovakian extra league in the 1998/99 season . After he and his team had been relegated to the second-class first division in his rookie year , he achieved direct promotion back to the extra league with MHC Martin in the 1999/2000 season. In the 2001 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the sixth round as a total of 170 players by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim . First he spent the 2001/02 season, however, at HC Slovan Bratislava , with whom he was the first Slovak champion . For the 2002/03 season, the left shooter was ordered by the Mighty Ducks to North America , where he played a total of 14 games for their farm teams , the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks from the American Hockey League and the Dayton Bombers from the East Coast Hockey League .

From 2003 to 2005 Tabaček was again under contract with HC Slovan Bratislava, with whom he was again champion in the 2004/05 season, before he stood for three years for HC Sparta Prague in the Czech extra league on the ice. With the capital city, he won the national championship twice in a row in 2006 and 2007 . With HC Sparta Prague, the Slovak also failed in 2008 2: 5 in the final of the IIHF European Champions Cup against Russian rivals HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk . In summer 2008 he was signed by HC Košice from his Slovak homeland, with whom he became champions three times in a row in 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2009 and 2011 he was also elected to the All-Star Team of the Slovak Extra League.

In the 2012/13 season he was active for HC Slovan Bratislava in the KHL , before he was committed in July 2013 by Tappara Tampere from the Finnish SM-liiga . For the Finnish club, he scored one goal and seven assists in 39 games before being signed by the ZSC Lions . With the Lions he won the Swiss championship at the end of the season .

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Extraliga (Czech Republic) main round 3 103 3 12 15th 116
Extraliga (Czech Republic) playoffs 3 34 0 2 2 50
Extraliga (Slovakia) main round 8th 339 37 96 133 380
Extraliga (Slovakia) playoffs 6th 76 7th 20th 27 108

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

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personal data
SURNAME Tabaček, Ján
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tabacek, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Martin , Czechoslovakia