Jakub Vrána

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Jakub Vrána
Date of birth February 28, 1996
place of birth Prague , Czech Republic
size 183 cm
Weight 85 kg
position Left wing
number # 13
Shot hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2013 , 1st round, 23rd position
HK Sibir Novosibirsk
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 13th position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
2009-2011 HC Letci Letňany
2011-2015 Linköpings HC
2015-2017 Hershey Bears
since 2016 Washington Capitals

Jakub Vrána (born February 28, 1996 in Prague ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League since July 2014 . With the team he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs .

Career

Vrána began his career in the youth department of HC Letci Letňany in the Prague district of Letňany and went through numerous ages there. After he had already recorded 29 points in 26 games in the Czech U18 league as a 14-year-old, Vrána moved to the junior division of Linköpings HC in Sweden. There he received a permanent contract in the summer of 2011, although he did not speak Swedish or English, and in the following season he played in the two highest Swedish U18 junior leagues in parallel. On September 24, 2011 Vrána also made his debut for the U20 team Linköpings in the J20 SuperElit as a 15-year-old and played in the team's first attack row. In March 2012 he scored his first goal in the highest Swedish U20 league against Rögle BK . He then moved permanently to the J20 SuperElit the following season and was the third-best scorer of his team with 32 points in as many games.

Jakub Vrána in the Hershey Bears jersey

Finally, on October 27, 2012, Vrána made his professional debut for the men's team of Linköpings HC in the Elitserien , where he formed the second row together with Mattias Weinhandl and Jonas Almtorp . At the age of 16 years and seven months, he made his debut as the youngest foreign player to appear in league history. In the course of the 2012/13 season he came to a total of five missions in which he remained pointless and punished. In the KHL Junior Draft 2013 Vrána was selected in the first round in 23rd position by HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Continental Hockey League . But he decided against a move to Russia and signed a new contract for three years in Linköping. In the following season he played parallel in the J20 SuperElit and the renamed Svenska Hockeyligan , where he also scored his first professional goal in the game against MODO Hockey .

In the summer of 2014, Vrána was selected in the first round in 13th position by the Washington Capitals in the NHL Entry Draft and then signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Capitals. For the 2014/15 season , the Czech was initially loaned back to Linköpings and was able to recommend himself there with 12 goals and 12 assists in 44 games. In April 2015, the attacker finally moved to North America to join the Washington Capitals organization, where he has so far mainly been used by the Hershey Bears farm team in the American Hockey League . In December 2016 he made his debut in the National Hockey League .

At the end of the 2017/18 season, which he spent completely in the NHL for the first time, Vrána won the first Stanley Cup in team history with the Capitals .

International

Jakub Vrána represented the Czech Republic for the first time at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 and was also in the squad at the U18 World Cup in 2012 that same year . There he was the best scorer of his team with four goals and eight points from six games, although at the age of 15 he was by far the youngest player in the Czech Republic. He represented his home country again at the U18 World Championships in 2013 and 2014 , where he was the tournament's top scorer with eight goals and won the silver medal with the Czech Republic.

At the age of 16, the striker was appointed to the Czech team's squad for the 2013 U20 World Cup , making him the youngest player in the entire tournament. In six games he succeeded in making a goal assist. He also took part in the Junior World Championships in 2014 and 2015 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2010/11 HC Letci Letňany U18 CZE U18 26th 19th 10 29 10 - - - - -
2011/12 Linköpings HC U18 J18 elite 21st 16 6th 22nd 2 - - - - -
2011/12 Linköpings HC U18 J18 Allsvenskan 11 12 11 23 4th 3 2 2 4th 12
2011/12 Linköpings HC U20 J20 SuperElit 3 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
2012/13 Linköpings HC U18 J18 Allsvenskan 3 3 2 5 2 2 1 0 1 12
2012/13 Linköpings HC U20 J20 SuperElit 32 20th 12 32 49 5 1 0 1 0
2012/13 Linköpings HC Elitserien 5 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Linköpings HC U18 J18 Allsvenskan 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 4th
2013/14 Linköpings HC U20 J20 SuperElit 24 14th 11 25th 26th - - - - -
2013/14 Linköpings HC SHL 24 2 1 3 2 14th 1 1 2 6th
2014/15 Linköpings HC SHL 44 12 12 24 12 11 4th 1 5 2
2014/15 Hershey Bears AHL 3 0 5 5 0 10 2 4th 6th 2
2015/16 Hershey Bears AHL 36 16 18th 34 20th 21st 8th 6th 14th 2
2016/17 Hershey Bears AHL 49 19th 17th 36 28 7th 0 0 0 4th
2016/17 Washington Capitals NHL 21st 3 3 6th 2 - - - - -
2017/18 Washington Capitals NHL 73 13 14th 27 12 23 3 5 8th 2
2018/19 Washington Capitals NHL 82 24 23 47 27 7th 0 0 0 6th
J20 SuperElit overall 59 35 23 58 77 5 1 0 1 0
Elitserien / SHL overall 73 14th 13 27 14th 25th 5 2 7th 8th
AHL total 88 35 40 75 48 38 10 10 20th 8th
NHL overall 176 40 40 80 26th 30th 3 5 8th 8th

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012 Czech Republic WHC 8th place 5 2 0 2 4th
2012 Czech Republic U18 World Cup 8th place 6th 4th 4th 8th +1 4th
2013 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 0 1 1 +1 2
2013 Czech Republic U18 World Cup 7th place 5 2 0 2 -4 2
2013 Czech Republic Hlinka Memorial 3rd place, bronze 4th 3 1 4th +4 4th
2014 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 6th place 5 1 1 2 -1 2
2014 Czech Republic U18 World Cup Silver medal 7th 8th 2 10 +3 4th
2015 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 6th place 5 2 1 3 +2 2
2019 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 9 4th 1 5 +4 0
Juniors overall 43 22nd 10 32 24
Men overall 9 4th 1 5 +4 0

( 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 Vrána  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lhcidag.se, Tjeckiskt superlöfte till LHC ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
  2. ↑ Jakub Vrána at eliteprospects.com (English)
  3. ↑ Lucie Lobo: Čekal jsem draft spíš do Lva, je zájmem Novosibirsku zaskočený Vrána , Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament , August 2, 2013 (Czech)
  4. ↑ washingtonpost.com First-round pick Jakub Vrana signs with Capitals
Washington Capitals logo
Squad of the Washington Capitals in the season 2019/20

Goalkeeper: Braden Holtby  | Ilja Samsonow  
Defender: John Carlson  ( A ) | Brenden Dillon  | Radko Gudas  | Nick Jensen  | Michal Kempný  | Dmitri Orlov  | Jonas Siegenthaler  
attacker: Nicklas Bäckström  ( A ) | Travis Boyd  | Nic Dowd  | Lars Eller  | Carl Hagelin  | Garnet Hathaway  | Ilya Kovalchuk  | Yevgeny Kuznetsov  | TJ Oshie  | Alexander Ovechkin  ( C ) | Richard Pánik  | Jakub Vrána  | Tom Wilson  
Head Coach:  vacant      Assistant  Coach : Scott Arniel  | Reid Cashman  | Blaine Forsythe    General Manager:  Brian MacLellan

personal data
SURNAME Vrána, Jakub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vrana, Jakub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Czech Republic