Jaka Ankerst

Jaka Ankerst
Date of birth	March 27, 1989
place of birth	Kranj , SFR Yugoslavia
size	184 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2003-2010	HK MK Bled
2010	HDK Maribor
2010-2011	Diables Rouges de Briançon
2011–2012	HK Jesenice
2012-2013	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2013-2015	Diables Rouges de Briançon
2015	HDD Jesenice
2015-2016	HC Amiens Somme
2016-2017	HDD Jesenice
since 2017	Lyon Hockey Club

Jaka Ankerst (born March 27, 1989 in Kranj , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Slovenian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Lyon Hockey Club in Ligue Magnus since 2017 .

Career

Jaka Ankerst began his career at HK MK Bled , for whom he played in the Slovenian U20 league as a 14-year-old. In the 2007/08 season he made his debut in the Slovenian men's league for the club . In the 2009/10 season he played with the club in the Slohokej League , but moved to HDK Maribor before the playoffs , with whom he won the play-off finals against HK Partizan Belgrade . After this success he moved to France to the Diables Rouges de Briançon , for which he was on the ice for a season in the Ligue Magnus . He returned to Slovenia in 2011 and played for HK Jesenice in the Austrian ice hockey league . When the club from Oberkrain had to stop playing in 2012 for financial reasons, he moved to league rivals HDD Olimpija Ljubljana . With the capital city club, he missed the playoffs in the Austrian ice hockey league, but became Slovenian national champion for the first time in his career . In 2013 he went to the Diables Rouges de Briançon again. With the red devils from the western Alps , Ankerst won their first French championship in 2014 . After another year in Briançon, he returned to Slovenia in the summer of 2015, where he played for HDD Jesenice in the Inter-National League . But already in October 2015 Ligue Magnus pulled him back to HC Amiens Somme . After his contract there was no longer renewed in summer 2016, he joined HDD Jesenice for the second time in December of that year, for which he now appeared in the Alps Hockey League . He was also used in the playoffs of the Slovenian ice hockey league and won the Slovenian championship with the club in 2017. He then moved again to the French Ligue Magnus, where he plays for the Lyon Hockey Club , with which he won the Coupe de France in 2018 .

International

In the junior division, Ankerst played for Slovenia at the U18 World Championships in 2006 and 2007 as well as the U20 World Championships in 2008 and 2009 in Division I.

For the 2011 World Cup , he was appointed to the men's national team for the first time , but could not prevent relegation from the top division. He then only played for his colors again at the 2014 World Cup and managed to move up from Division I to the top division with the Slovenes.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 won the Slohokej League with the HDK Maribor
• 2013 Slovenian champion with the HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
• 2014 French champion with the Diables Rouges de Briançon
• 2017 Slovenian champion with the HDD Jesenice
• 2018 French cup winner with the Lyon Hockey Club

International

• 2014 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Slohokej main round	1	24	17th	21st	38	27
Slohokej playoffs	1	6th	2	2	4th	4th
Ligue Magnus main round	5	128	30th	54	84	60
Ligue Magnus playoffs	5	38	6th	19th	25th	14th
ÖEHL main round	2	81	11	15th	26th	28
ÖEHL playoffs	0	0	0	0	0	0

(Status: end of the 2016/17 season)

Web links

• Jaka Ankerst at eliteprospects.com (English)