Jakub Štěpánek

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Jakub Štěpánek
Date of birth June 20, 1986
place of birth Vsetín , Czechoslovakia
size 187 cm
Weight 71 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 33
Catch hand Left
Career stations
until 2001 HC Vsetín
2001-2008 HC Sareza Ostrava
2008-2010 HC Vítkovice Steel
2010–2012 SKA Saint Petersburg
2012-2013 HC Lev Prague
2013-2015 Severstal Cherepovets
2015-2016 SC Bern
2016-2017 HC Dynamo Pardubice
Lukko Rauma
2017-2019 HC Slovan Bratislava
since 2019 HC Dynamo Pardubice

Jakub Štěpánek (born June 20, 1986 in Vsetín , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with HC Dynamo Pardubice from the Czech extra league since 2019 .

Career

Jakub Štěpánek in the SKA Saint Petersburg jersey

Jakub Štěpánek began his career as a hockey player in the youth of HC Vsetín , for whom he was active in the U18 extra league until 2001. He then moved to HC Sareza Ostrava and played for its junior team until 2005. At the end of the 2004/05 season he made his debut for the men's team of the same club in the 1st division . Two years later he was appointed to the squad of the partner club, the HC Vítkovice Steel , for the first time and came to a total of five appearances in the top Czech division, the Extraliga . Also in the following season he mostly played for Sareza, but was also used for 230 minutes in the extra league.

From the 2008/09 season he was a permanent member of the HC Vítkovice Steel squad and was able to replace Marek Pinc as a regular goalkeeper during the season . Especially in the playoffs, he impressed with a good catch rate of 94.35% and an average goal against goals of 1.85. These achievements earned him the award rookie of the year and the appointment to the national team .

In the summer of 2010, Štěpánek was signed by SKA Saint Petersburg from the Continental Hockey League and was the goalkeeper of the army sports club for the following two seasons. In October 2012, the SKA signed Sergei Bobrowski an NHL goalkeeper, so that Štěpánek was no longer used. Therefore, he moved to HC Lev Prague at the end of October within the KHL . But even at HC Lev Štěpánek could not prevail, so that he signed a contract with Severstal Tscherepowez in May 2013 .

In December 2015, he was loaned to SC Bern until the end of the season after Cherepovets no longer had a chance of reaching the play-offs. Štěpánek was then used as a regular goalkeeper and in April 2016 with SC Bern Swiss champions .

In July 2017 he returned to the KHL when he signed a contract with HC Slovan Bratislava . He played there until 2019, after which he returned to HC Dynamo Pardubice .

International

From 2003 Štěpánek belonged to the extended circle of the Czech junior selection, but was not used in any major international tournament. It was not until 2009 that he was nominated for his first men's world championship and played the opening game against Denmark, where he achieved a shutout .

At the 2010 World Cup he won the gold medal with the national team, and the bronze medal in 2011 and 2012 .

Achievements and Awards

International

Web links

Commons : Jakub Štěpánek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The KHL cancels its two league games in New York in January. Ice Hockey News , October 26, 2012, accessed November 29, 2012 .
  2. ↑ The last hope is called Stepanek. In: bernerzeitung.ch . December 21, 2015, accessed January 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ hokej.cz, profile of Jakub Štěpánek
  4. ↑ radio.cz, Růžička: We want a medal and something to celebrate after the World Cup
personal data
SURNAME Štěpánek, Jakub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stepanek, Jakub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Vsetín , Czechoslovakia