Jakub Kovář

Jakub Kovář
Date of birth	July 19, 1988
place of birth	Písek , Czechoslovakia
size	184 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 4th round, 109th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
until 2005	IHC Písek
2005-2007	HC České Budějovice
2007-2008	Oshawa Generals Windsor Spitfires
2008-2013	HC České Budějovice
2013-2016	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2016-2017	Severstal Cherepovets
since 2017	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg

Jakub Kovář (born July 19, 1988 in Písek , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg in the Continental Hockey League since May 2017 . His brother Jan is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Jakub Kovář began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of the IHC Písek . From there, the goalkeeper moved in 2005 to the U20 juniors of HC České Budějovice , for whom he was active in the following two years. During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2006 in the fourth round as a total of 109th player by the Philadelphia Flyers , for which he however never played. Instead, he ran in the 2007/08 season for the Oshawa Generals and Windsor Spitfires in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League .

Jakub Kovář (2010)

For the 2008/09 season he returned to České Budějovice and completed a total of 23 games in the Extraliga and only prevented relegation with his team, which had been top of the main round in the previous year, relegation. At European level, he was in a game of the Champions Hockey League between the posts. He also played three games on loan for SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč in the first division , the second Czech division.

The 2009/10 season Kovář spent alternately at HC České Budějovice in the Extraliga and as a loan player at the second division HC Tábor . In the 2010/11 season , the national player became a regular goalkeeper at HC Mountfield, for whom he was on the ice in a total of 58 games. He was particularly convincing in the play-offs, when he conceded an average of 1.79 goals per game in six games and achieved a catch rate of 94.7 percent.

In January 2013 he extended his contract for two years, but made use of an exit clause in May of the same year and moved to Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg in the Continental Hockey League for two years .

International

For the Czech Republic , Kovář took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championship in 2006 , where he won the bronze medal with his team, and the U20 World Junior Championship in 2007 and 2008 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad for the first time in 2011 at the Euro Hockey Tour . He also represented the Czech Republic at the 2011 World Cup , where he and his team won the bronze medal as a substitute goalkeeper without a commitment.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2011 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2012 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2013 KHL goalkeeper of the month December
• 2014 KHL goalkeeper of the month January

Web links

• Jakub Kovář at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jakub Kovář at eliteprospects.com (English)