Jaroslav Kudrna

Jaroslav Kudrna
Date of birth	5th December 1975
place of birth	Hradec Králové , Czechoslovakia
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 21
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1995 , 6th lap, 142nd position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
1993-1995	HC Hradec Králové
1995-1996	HC Pardubice
1996	Kentucky Thoroughblades
1996-2004	HC Pardubice
2004-2005	HC Lasselsberger Plzeň
2005-2006	HC Oceláři Třinec
2006-2010	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
since 2010	Bílí Tygři Liberec

Jaroslav Kudrna (born December 5, 1975 in Hradec Králové , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player . Since 2010 he has played with the Bílí Tygři Liberec in the Czech extra league .

Career

Jaroslav Kudrna began his career as a hockey player at HC Hradec Králové , for which he was active in the Czech extra league from 1993 to 1995 . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1995 in the sixth round as a total of 142nd player by the San Jose Sharks , for which he however never played. After the attacker had spent the 1995/96 season at HC Pardubice , he was included for the 1996/97 season in the squad of the then farm team of the San Jose Sharks, the Kentucky Thoroughblades from the American Hockey League . However, he left this team after only seven games and returned to HC Pardubice, for which he was on the ice for the following eight years.

After a year-long stint at HC Lasselsberger Plzeň , Kudrna signed in 2005 with their league rivals HC Oceláři Třinec , for whom he played for the following year and a half before he was signed by HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk from the Russian Super League during the 2006/07 season . With Magnitogorsk he became Russian champions for the first time in his career at the end of the season . In addition, he and his team won the IIHF European Champions Cup the following year . In the 2008/09 season Kudrna reached the final of the newly founded Champions Hockey League with Metallurg , in which he and his team were defeated by the ZSC Lions from Switzerland.

Since 2010 he has been back in the Czech extra league for the Bílí Tygři Liberec .

International

For the Czech Republic Kudrna took part in the U20 Junior World Cup in 1995 , where he finished sixth with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2008 IIHF European Champions Cup -Win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2009 2nd place in the Champions Hockey League with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2009 KHL All-Star Game

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	2	100	27	25th	52	120
Playoffs	2	22nd	3	5	8th	14th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Jaroslav Kudrna at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jaroslav Kudrna at eurohockey.com