Jakub Klepiš

Jakub Klepiš
Date of birth	5th June 1984
place of birth	Prague , Czechoslovakia
size	183 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2002 , 1st round, 16th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2001-2002	Portland Winter Hawks
2002-2004	HC Slavia Prague
2004-2005	Portland Pirates
2005-2007	Washington Capitals
2007-2008	HC Slavia Prague
2008-2010	HK Awangard Omsk
2010-2011	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2011–2012	OHK dynamo
2012-2014	HC Lev Prague
2014	Färjestad BK
since 2014	HC Oceláři Třinec

Jakub Klepiš (born June 5, 1984 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with HC Oceláři Třinec in the Czech extra league since November 2014 .

Career

Jakub Klepiš started his career with the Portland Winter Hawks in the Canadian junior league Western Hockey League , after which he returned to his home country for HC Slavia Prague . In the 2002 NHL Entry Draft , Klepis was selected ( drafted ) as 16th in the first round by the Ottawa Senators .

Without having played a single NHL game, Jakub Klepiš was transferred to the Buffalo Sabers in 2003 in exchange with Václav Varaďa and on March 9, 2004 for Mike Grier to the Capitals. But even there he was initially only used in their farm teams , the Portland Pirates and the Hershey Bears , in the AHL. The 2005/06 season was to be his most successful to date: In addition to his first NHL appearances for Washington, Klepis won the Calder Cup and the AHL championship with the Hershey Bears . Also in the 2006/07 season , the Czech was used in both the NHL and the AHL. During his time in the National Hockey League , he played a total of 66 games for the Washington Capitals . In the middle of the 2007/08 season he moved back to his home country and played for HC Slavia Prague .

Jakub Klepiš at the LG Hockey Games 2008

Between 2008 and 2010 Jakub Klepiš was under contract with HK Awangard Omsk in the KHL, before moving to Salawat Julajew Ufa within the league in July 2010 , with whom he won the Gagarin Cup in the 2010/11 season . In the 2011/12 season he scored three goals and two assists in 15 games for Ufa before his contract was terminated in October 2011. He was then put on the waiver list by Ufa and could be selected by other KHL teams within 48 hours. After he was initially selected by Metallurg Novokuznetsk , the team transferred him hours later against a first-round vote for the KHL Junior Draft to the OHK Dynamo . With Dynamo he won the Gagarin Cup again at the end of the season before moving to the new KHL participant HC Lev Prague in May 2012 . With Lev Prague he reached the KHL play-off final in 2014. After this success, his contract was not extended and Jakub Klepiš moved to Färjestad BK from Svenska Hockeyligan .

Since November 2014 he has been under contract with HC Oceláři Třinec in the Czech Republic and reached the play-off final of the Extraliga with this at the end of the season, in which the team from Třinec lost to HC Litvínov with 2: 4 wins.

Achievements and Awards

2002 CHL Top Prospects Game 2003 Czech champion with HC Slavia Prague 2006 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears 2008 Czech champion with HC Slavia Prague

2009 KHL All-Star Game 2011 Gagarin Cup win with Salawat Julajew Ufa 2012 Gagarin Cup win with the OHK Dynamo 2015 Czech runner-up with HC Oceláři Třinec

International

• 2002 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2010 gold medal at the world championship

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		71	9	21st	30th	28		4th	0	0	0	5
2002/03	HC Slavia Prague	EL (Cz)		38	2	6th	8th	22nd		4th	0	0	0	6th
2003/04	HC Slavia Prague	EL (Cz)		44	4th	9	13	43		17th	5	3	8th	10
2004/05	Portland Pirates	AHL		78	13	14th	27	76		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Hershey Bears	AHL		54	11	20th	31	49		15th	2	6th	8th	4th
2005/06	Washington Capitals	NHL		25th	1	3	4th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Washington Capitals	NHL		41	3	7th	10	28		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Hershey Bears	AHL		31	6th	26th	32	24		19th	7th	7th	14th	14th
2007/08	Hershey Bears	AHL		19th	5	6th	11	9		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	HC Slavia Prague	EL (Cz)		24	5	7th	12	22nd		19th	10	7th	17th	24
2008/09	HK Awangard Omsk	KHL		55	14th	18th	32	76		9	1	4th	5	0
2009/10	HK Awangard Omsk	KHL		56	10	12	22nd	50		3	0	2	2	2
2010/11	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		49	14th	14th	28	16		16	1	4th	5	4th
2011/12	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		15th	3	2	5	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	OHK dynamo	KHL		29	4th	5	9	14th		14th	5	1	6th	6th
2012/13	HC Lev Prague	KHL		45	20th	18th	38	24		4th	0	0	0	0
2013/14	HC Lev Prague	KHL		38	8th	9	17th	22nd		4th	1	0	1	4th
2014/15	Färjestad BK	SHL
WHL overall				71	9	21st	30th	28		4th	0	0	0	5
Extraliga overall				82	6th	15th	21st	65		40	15th	10	25th	40
AHL total				132	24	34	58	125		15th	2	6th	8th	4th
NHL overall				66	4th	10	14th	36		0	0	0	0	0
KHL total				287	73	75	148	185		50	8th	11	19th	16

( 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 : Jakub Klepiš  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jakub Klepiš at eliteprospects.com (English)