Jan Snopek

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Jan Snopek
Date of birth June 21, 1976
place of birth Prague , Czechoslovakia
size 193 cm
Weight 101 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1995 , 5th lap, 109th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1993-1997 Oshawa Generals
1997 Saint John Flames
1997-1998 VIK Västerås HK
1998-2000 HC Energie Karlovy Vary
2000-2002 HC Slavia Prague
2002-2004 HC Znojemští Orli
2004-2009 HC Pardubice
2009-2011 HC České Budějovice
2011-2013 Kärpät Oulu
2013 Milano Rossoblu
WSV Sterzing Broncos

Jan Snopek (born June 21, 1976 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who now works as a youth coach.

Career

Jan Snopek began his career as a hockey player with the Oshawa Generals , for whom he was active from 1993 to 1997 in the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League . In the 1996/97 season he and his team won the J. Ross Robertson Cup , the OHL championship. In the Memorial Cup that followed, he was elected to the All-Star Team. During his junior years, the defender was selected in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in the fifth round as a total of 109th player by the Edmonton Oilers , for whom he never played. Instead, he started the 1997/98 season with the Saint John Flames from the American Hockey League , for which he only played two games before he spent the rest of the season at VIK Västerås HK in the Swedish Elitserien . He then returned to his Czech homeland, where he was on the ice for two years for HC Karlovy Vary , HC Slavia Prague and HC Znojemští Orli in the Extraliga .

For the 2004/05 season Snopek was obliged by HC Pardubice , with whom he won the Czech championship title straight away . He contributed to this success with 29 scorer points, including seven goals, in a total of 66 games. From 2007 to 2009 the right-shooter was even the team captain in Pardubice. Nevertheless, he left the club and played for HC České Budějovice in the following year and a half , before ending the 2010/11 season at Kärpät Oulu in the Finnish SM-liiga . There he also spent the entire following season . In January 2013 he moved to Italy, where he signed with Milano Rossoblu from the A1 series .

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he completed a try-out with the WSV Sterzing Broncos , received a contract, but decided in October 2013 to leave the Broncos. He then ended his career, finished his training and has been a junior and fitness trainer at HC Plzen since 2014 .

International

For the Czech Republic , Snopek took part in the Euro Hockey Tour in 2004 . In three games he remained without point and punishment.

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Elitserien main round 1 34 2 7th 9 42
Elitserien Playoffs - - - - - -
SM liiga main round 2 75 3 11 14th 78
SM liiga playoffs 2 7th 1 0 1 8th
Extraliga (Czech Republic) main round 13 633 42 113 155 1147
Extraliga (Czech Republic) playoffs 8th 79 6th 6th 12 231

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan - Jan Snopek leaves the Broncos. In: broncos.it. October 5, 2013, accessed November 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jakub Vais: Žiji svůj sen, říká o práci per Plzeň Jan Snopek. In: hcskoda.cz. April 3, 2015, accessed November 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Snopek, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Czechoslovakia