Július Supler

Július Šupler (born October 27, 1950 in Poprad , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player and today's coach . Most recently he was the head coach of the Ukrainian HK Donbass Donetsk in the Continental Hockey League in the 2012/13 season .

Career

As a player

Július Šupler began his career as a hockey player in his hometown with TJ Lokomotíva Vagónka Stavbár Poprad , for which he also competed in the second Czechoslovak division , as then for the Partizan Liptovský Mikuláš . From 1970 to 1972 he was finally for Slovan CHZJD Bratislava and from 1972 to 1976 for VSŽ Košice in the 1st division , the highest Czechoslovak division, on the ice. He then ended his active career at the age of 26.

As a trainer

Július Supler
Coaching stations
1979-1987	TJ LVS Poprad
1987-1989	Partizan Liptovský Mikuláš
1989-1992	HC Dukla Trenčín
1993-1996	Slovak national team
1996-1998	Portland Winter Hawks
1998	HC Sparta Prague
1999-2002	HC Dukla Trenčín
2002-2003	HC Slovan Bratislava
2003-2004	HK Dinamo Minsk locomotive Yaroslavl
2004-2006	HK Riga 2000
2006-2008	Slovak national team
2008-2011	Dinamo Riga
2011–2012	HK CSKA Moscow
2012-2013	HK Donbass Donetsk

From 1979 to 1985, Šupler was an assistant coach at his hometown club from Poprad and then head coach for two years.

In the 1991/92 season he was Czechoslovakian champion with HC Dukla Trenčín . From 1993 to 1996 he was the first coach of the Slovak national ice hockey team, which was newly established after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia . At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he led his team to sixth place. Within two years he was promoted to the A world championship with Slovakia, which initially had to start in the C world championship.

From 1996 to 1998 Šupler worked as an assistant coach for the Canadian junior team Portland Winter Hawks from the Western Hockey League . With these he was able to win in the 1997/98 season first the WHL championship, the President's Cup and then the championship of the Canadian Hockey League , the Memorial Cup . For the 1998/99 season he was signed as head coach of HC Sparta Prague from the Czech extra league . As an assistant coach, František Výborný stood by his side during his engagement in the Czech capital . During the current season Šupler resigned and was replaced by Pavel Richter .

In the 2002/03 season he was Slovakian champion with the Slovak capital club HC Slovan Bratislava . Following this success, he became head coach at the Belarusian club HK Dinamo Minsk in July 2003 , before he was committed in November for the remainder of the 2003/04 season by Lokomotive Yaroslavl from the Russian Super League .

In the following years he moved to Latvia, where he was in charge of HK Riga 2000 in the Belarusian extra league and the Latvian ice hockey league from 2004 to 2006 . He won the Latvian championship title with the Latvians in 2005 and 2006 and took second place in the IIHF Continental Cup with the team in the 2005/06 season at European level .

From 2006 to 2008 he returned to the position of main responsible for the Slovak national team. He was able to win the Deutschland Cup with the team in November 2006 , but was replaced by his compatriot Ján Filc after two disappointing world championships in June 2008 . He then accepted the contract offer from Dinamo Riga from the newly founded Continental Hockey League , where he was head coach from the 2008/09 season . With Dinamo he immediately reached the playoffs in the first two KHL seasons and retired with his team in the first and second playoff rounds.

After the 2010/11 season, Šupler left Dinamo Riga and was signed by HK CSKA Moscow as head coach. There he was under contract until February 2012, before his contract was terminated and he was replaced by his assistant coach Vyacheslav Buzayev . In April 2012 he was introduced as the head coach of the KHL newcomer HK Donbass Donetsk and received a three-year contract, which was dissolved after the 2012/13 season.

Successes and awards (as a trainer)

• 1992 Czechoslovak champion with HC Dukla Trenčín
• 1994 Promotion to the B world championship at the C world championship with Slovakia
• 1995 Promotion to the A world championship at the B world championship with Slovakia
• 1998 President's Cup win with the Portland Winter Hawks
• 1998 Memorial Cup win with the Portland Winter Hawks
• 2003 Slovak champion with HC Slovan Bratislava
• 2005 Latvian champion with HK Riga 2000
• 2006 Latvian champion with the HK Riga 2000
• 2006 2nd place in the IIHF Continental Cup with the HK Riga 2000
• 2006 Germany Cup win with Slovakia
• 2013 IIHF Continental Cup -Win with HK Donbass Donetsk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hokej.sme.sk, Július Šupler priviedol Slovensko medzi hokejovú elitu
2. ^ RIA Novosti , CSKA Moscow Fire Coach Supler

Web links

• Július Šupler at hockeydb.com (English)
• Július Šupler at eliteprospects.com (English)