Jiří Marusak

Jiří Marusak
Date of birth	November 29, 1975
place of birth	Zlín , Czechoslovakia
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1992-2003	HC Zlín
2003	Tappara Tampere
2003-2005	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2005-2006	SKA Saint Petersburg
2006-2007	HC Zlín HK CSKA Moscow Djurgårdens IF
2007-2008	HC Vítkovice Steel Djurgårdens IF
2008-2009	BK Mladá Boleslav HK MWD Balashikha
2009-2010	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2010-2011	BK Mladá Boleslav
2011-2013	HC Plzeň 1929
2013	HC Dynamo Pardubice
2013-2017	HC Zlín

Jiří Marusak (born November 29, 1975 in Zlín , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who was under contract with HC Zlín in the Czech extra league for many years . He also played for Metallurg Novokusnezk , SKA Saint Petersburg , Djurgårdens IF and HC Plzeň in 1929 .

Career

Jiří Marušák began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at HC Zlín , for whose professional team he was active in the extra league from 1992 to 2003 . During this period he was runner-up with the club in 1995 and 1999. The 2002/03 season ended the defender at Tappara Tampere in the SM-liiga . With the Finns, he won the national championship title at his first stop abroad . From 2003 to 2005 he was in the Russian Super League with Metallurg Novokuznetsk before he played for their league rivals SKA Saint Petersburg in the following season . In the 2006/07 season he played first for his hometown club HC Zlín, and then for HK ZSKA Moscow in Russia and Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish Elitserien .

The seasons 2007/08 and 2008/09 began Marušák each in the Extraliga with HC Vítkovice Steel and BK Mladá Boleslav and finished them with Djurgårdens IF in the Elitserien and HK MWD Balaschicha in the newly founded Continental Hockey League . For the 2009/10 season, the Czech moved to his ex-club Metallurg Novokuznetsk, which has since been accepted into the KHL. For the 2010/11 season he returned to his Czech homeland and signed a contract with his ex-club BK Mladá Boleslav, for which he has played since then.

Achievements and Awards

• 1995 Czech runner-up with HC Zlín
• 1999 Czech runner-up with HC Zlín
• 2003 Finnish champion with Tappara Tampere
• 2014 Czech champion with HC Zlín

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	2	86	5	20th	25th	134
KHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Elitserien main round	2	63	10	16	26th	40
Elitserien Playoffs	1	5	0	1	1	4th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Jiří Marusak at eurohockey.com
• Jiří Marusak at eliteprospects.com (English)