Jan Kovář

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Jan Kovář
Date of birth March 20, 1990
place of birth Písek , Czechoslovakia
size 180 cm
Weight 98 kg
position center
number # 43
Shot hand Right
Career stations
until 2005 IHC Písek
2005-2013 HC Plzeň 1929
2013-2018 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2018 Providence Bruins
2018-2019 HC Plzeň 1929
since 2019 EV train

Jan Kovář (born March 20, 1990 in Písek , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with EV Zug in the Swiss National League since June 2019, where he plays in the center position. His older brother Jakub is an ice hockey goalkeeper .

Career

Beginning in Písek and Plzeň

Jan Kovář comes from the youth division of IHC Pisek in his hometown, for which he played until 2005. At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he ran again for this before moving to the juniors of HC Plzeň in 1929 . In this he went through the U18 and U20 teams, which participated in the respective highest Czech leagues of their age group. In the 2006/07 season he was the top scorer with 79 points and top scorer (40 goals) in the U18 extra league. He was then accepted into the U20 team and was one of the club's best players in this age group. Therefore, he was nominated for the Czech U18 national team and made it back to the top division at the U18 World Cup in Division I, Group A. He contributed 8 points in 5 games to this success.

Before the 2008/09 season he was included in the expanded professional squad of HC Plzeň and completed a large part of the season in the top Czech division, the Extraliga . At the same time, he continued to work with the U20 juniors and with HC Klatovy from the third-class 2nd národní hokejová league .

Championship title in the Czech Republic

From 2009 he was part of the regular team of HC Plzeň and increased his points count from 9 (2008/09) to 13 (2009/10) to 38 points (2010/11). During the 2010/11 season he was temporarily loaned to HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi and won the championship title of the first division with this in 2011 . In addition, he managed with the team from Ústí promotion to the extra league, where he was used in five relegation games. The following season he continued to play for HC Plzeň in 1929, but again received occasional missions with a 1st division team, this time with KLH Chomutov . This won the league championship in 2012.

In the 2012/13 season , HC Plzeň was among the best teams in the league with third place already during the main round, with Milan Gulaš , club partner Martin Straka as captain and Jan Kovář as a constant scorer standing out. In the playoff final, Plzeň defeated the team from PSG Zlín 4-3 and won the Czech championship title for the first time in the club's history . Kovář was with 26 points, including 11 goals, top scorer, top scorer and best template donor of the play-offs and was therefore awarded as the most valuable player of the play-offs. In addition, Kovář was named “Player of the Year”.

Change to the KHL

The performances shown in the extra league aroused the interest of various KHL clubs, after all, Kovář was signed by HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk for three years in April 2013 . Even in the KHL, he kept his style of play and was consequently invited to the KHL All-Star Game . In the main round of the 2013/14 season he was the best assists in the league with 45 assists and had the best plus / minus rating in the league with "+46" . In the play-offs, Metallurg advanced to the final of the Gagarin Cup , in which the team defeated HC Lev Prague 4-3. So Kovář won the championship trophy of the KHL and the Russian championship . To this success he contributed 26 scorer points in 21 playoff games. Together with Sergei Mosjakin and Danis Saripow , he was also recognized as a "striker trio". In 2016, the club repeated winning the Gagarin Cup, with Kovář continuing to be one of the most attacking players in the league and receiving numerous awards. In the 2017/18 season, his point yield decreased somewhat, so that he decided to change clubs.

Intermezzo in North America and return to Europe

In July 2018, Kovář signed a one-year contract with the New York Islanders from the National Hockey League (NHL), which was dissolved in October of the same year without the Czech having played a game. He then received a trial contract with the Providence Bruins from the American Hockey League (AHL). There he was used twelve times up to December. He then returned to his home club in Plzeň, where he ended the 2018/19 season. The Czech signed a one-year contract with EV Zug for the 2019/20 season .

International

Kovar as captain of the national team at the Channel One Cup 2015

After returning to the top division at the U18 World Championship Division I in 2008 , Kovář took part two years later with the Czech U20 team in the U20 Junior World Championship , where they finished seventh. Kovář was used in six games in which he collected six scorer points.

He made his debut for the Czech men's selection on April 7, 2010 in Olten against Switzerland and then completed the LG Hockey Games 2010 .

His first major men's tournament was the 2013 Men's Ice Hockey World Championship , in which the Czechs finished seventh. At the world championship a year later , Kovář scored his first scorer point at a men's world championship and reached fourth place with the selection. Further appearances followed at the three following World Championships in 2015, 2016 and 2017. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea , he finished fourth with the Czech national team. In total, Kovář had completed 111 international matches by 2018, in which he scored 21 goals.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2014 KHL scorer trio ( with Sergei Mosjakin and Danis Saripow )
  • 2014 Gagarin Cup winner and Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  • 2016 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
  • 2016 Gagarin Cup winner and Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  • 2016 First All-Star Team of the KHL and best assists in the KHL playoffs
  • 2017 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
  • 2017 First All-Star Team of the KHL and top scorer of the KHL playoffs
  • 2017 KHL Iron Man Award ( player with most games in a row )

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 IHC Písek U18 extra league 47 16 4th 20th 44 - - - - -
2005/06 HC Plzeň 1929 U18 extra league 40 10 23 33 28 6th 2 5 7th 8th
2006/07 HC Plzeň 1929 U18 extra league 41 40 39 79 79 8th 2 3 5 18th
2006/07 HC Plzeň 1929 U20 extra league 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2007/08 HC Plzeň 1929 U20 extra league 45 24 34 58 60 5 2 4th 6th 2
2008/09 HC Plzeň 1929 U20 extra league 13 13 13 26th 24 - - - - -
2008/09 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 44 2 7th 9 18th 17th 2 5 7th 6th
2008/09 HC Klatovy 2nd league 4th 3 1 4th 4th - - - - -
2009/10 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 38 4th 9 13 26th 6th 1 6th 7th 2
2009/10 KLH Chomutov 1st League - - - - - 2 2 0 2 2
2010/11 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 50 19th 19th 38 38 4th 0 2 2 4th
2010/11 HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi 1st League - - - - - 6th 2 4th 6th 4th
2011/12 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 52 18th 33 51 52 12 2 6th 8th 8th
2011/12 KLH Chomutov 1st League - - - - - 1 0 3 3 0
2012/13 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 52 17th 34 51 66 20th 11 15th 26th 12
2013/14 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 54 23 45 68 46 21st 8th 18th 26th 16
2014/15 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 60 24 44 68 50 10 2 7th 9 16
2015/16 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 58 20th 32 52 61 23 8th 15th 23 10
2016/17 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 59 23 40 63 22nd 18th 10 15th 25th 22nd
2017/18 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 54 8th 28 36 80 11 4th 4th 8th 4th
2018/19 Providence Bruins AHL 12 4th 6th 10 10 - - - - -
2018/19 HC Plzeň 1929 Extra league 28 7th 26th 33 32 14th 3 10 13 28
U18 extra league overall 128 66 66 132 151 14th 4th 8th 12 26th
U20 extra league overall 63 39 51 90 86 5 2 4th 6th 2
1st league overall - - - - - 9 4th 7th 11 6th
Extraliga overall 264 67 128 195 232 73 19th 44 63 62
KHL total 285 97 189 286 259 83 32 59 91 68

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2008 Czech Republic U18 World Championship Div. I. 1st place 5 1 7th 8th 2
2010 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 7th place 6th 3 3 6th 2
2013 Czech Republic WM 7th place 6th 0 0 0 2
2014 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 10 0 1 1 27
2015 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 10 3 6th 9 6th
2016 Czech Republic WM 5th place 8th 1 4th 5 4th
2017 Czech Republic WM 7th place 8th 2 3 5 0
2018 Czech Republic Olympia 4th Place 6th 3 2 5 0
2019 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 10 5 5 10 6th
Juniors overall 11 4th 10 14th 4th
Men overall 58 14th 21st 35 45

( 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 : Jan Kovář  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ice Hockey News , Pilsens Jan Kovar Top Player of the Season and Playoff MVP , May 2, 2013
  2. ↑ hokej.hattrick.cz, Kovář míří z Plzně do Magnitky , April 25, 2013
  3. ↑ thehockeynews.com, The best players in the world you've never heard of ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 26, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thehockeynews.com
  4. ↑ hokej. hansal.cz, Česká hokejová reprezentace v sezóně 2009-2010
  5. ↑ hokej. hansal.cz, Hráči kteří reprezentovali Českou republiku
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personal data
SURNAME Kovář, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kovar, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Písek , Czechoslovakia